Ventriloquist Terry Fator wins America's Got Talent |
Times Online - UK - Paul Potts brought opera to the British masses, now America’s Got Talent contestant Terry Fator has given the USA, er, ventriloquism.
With a menagerie of puppets, a tendency to gush, and bearing a striking resemblance to The Office's David Brent, Fator may well have been booed off Britain's Got Talent. But last night America voted him best amateur performer in the country.
Handed $1 million in prize money, Fator’s long, vexed career as a niche performer came to a close, and life as a reality TV star began. Scheduled to headline at Bally’s Resort in Las Vegas next month, the Texan can now begin to forget the show he organised earlier this summer, where only one person turned up.
If this all sounds too much like a Christopher Guest mockumentary, wait until you hear who the singing, impersonating ventriloquist was up against. The infinitely more modern finalists were 14-year-old singer Julienne Irwin, human beatbox Antoinette “Butterscotch” Clinton and reggae singer Cas Haley.
With a menagerie of puppets, a tendency to gush, and bearing a striking resemblance to The Office's David Brent, Fator may well have been booed off Britain's Got Talent. But last night America voted him best amateur performer in the country.
Handed $1 million in prize money, Fator’s long, vexed career as a niche performer came to a close, and life as a reality TV star began. Scheduled to headline at Bally’s Resort in Las Vegas next month, the Texan can now begin to forget the show he organised earlier this summer, where only one person turned up.
If this all sounds too much like a Christopher Guest mockumentary, wait until you hear who the singing, impersonating ventriloquist was up against. The infinitely more modern finalists were 14-year-old singer Julienne Irwin, human beatbox Antoinette “Butterscotch” Clinton and reggae singer Cas Haley.
Categories : America's Got Talent
Posted 8/22/2007 12:08:41 AM | Permalink
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