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When Britain’s Got Talent first aired on television, it’s fair to say it didn’t receive the most glowing reception.

Many critics saw it as the nadir of reality TV contests – by opening the doors for any demented member of the public to demonstrate their ‘talent’ (that term used very loosely), weren’t ITV guilty of enouraging, well, a potential ‘freakshow’?

Naturally, Britain’s Got Talent was always going to encourage its fair share of oddballs (which we laughed at with much merriment), but ultimately, its end goal was sincere – to unearth unique British talent that would otherwise have gone undiscovered.

Enter, then, Paul Potts – the modest mobile phone salesman with the romantic soul and the voice of a Neapolitan opera singer. It’s an unlikely success story, but Potts has an unlikely life story.

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