Paul Potts Biography from Billboard.com
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Paul Potts was exactly what the producers of Britain's Got Talent were looking for when they finally launched the program in the U.K. after much delay, an ordinary bloke, working in an ordinary job, but with an extra-ordinary talent. Simon Cowell's latest project after half a decade of involvement with TV talent shows aimed primarily for singers, was a national contest with a public vote for all types of talents, singers, dancers, magicians, ventriloquists and even more extreme novelty acts. After an aborted start when the show's chosen host, Paul O Grady defected to Channel Four television and refused to front the show for ITV, their flagship presenters Ant & Dec were brought in and the program finally got underway in June 2007.