BGT's Amanda Holden: 'I love Stavros Flatley'
Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden said she loved former finalists Stavros Flatley so much she has hired them to play family parties. Amanda, who returned to the show after the traumatic birth of her second child Hollie which left her in a critical condition for several days, said the comedy dancing duo were her "favourite act of all time". She said: "I still can't get over the surprise element of their act. It was just brilliant. Their audition just made me so happy. I was bursting with laughter and joy. I've since hired them for weddings and family parties, I just love them. "What I also love is that after they have performed, they hand out business cards for their electrician company, so I might use them when I'm having the cottage done up, but only if they come in their stage outfits." Among the acts in the new series of the talent show, which starts on ITV1 this Saturday, are several ukulele players, some boybands and the show's first female drag queen. The show's co-host Declan Donnelly said: "The British public constantly surprise you with weird and wonderful things. You think a) why, and b) how did you even discover you can do that?"
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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.
An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.