Paul Potts Article - Potts' luck

Paul Potts gave himself one chance to make it doing what he loves. The shy 36-year-old salesman from Bristol, England, entered Britain's Got Talent this year and won the contest and the opportunity of his dreams.

“It was me who convinced me to go on the show,” he says. “I wasn’t sure that I was good enough, so I ended up tossing a coin and doing it by heads or tails . . . it landed on heads, which was the go-ahead to send in an application.”

In a moment that is now famous, Potts strolled on stage looking awkward and nervous in an $85 suit and declared to the judges – show creator Simon Cowell and judges Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan – he was going to sing opera.

###

Click Here for a full article