{"id":6791,"date":"2014-04-12T18:23:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T17:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/?p=6791"},"modified":"2014-04-13T22:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T21:03:23","slug":"collabro-sings-stars-from-les-miserables-on-britain-got-talent-2014-and-surprised-the-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/6791\/collabro-sings-stars-from-les-miserables-on-britain-got-talent-2014-and-surprised-the-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Collabro sings Stars from Les Mis\u00e9rables on Britain Got Talent 2014 and surprised the judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Got Talent judges \u2013 Simon Cowell, David Walliams, Alesha Dixon and Amanda Holden &#8211; got a big surprise from musical singing group Collabro when they sang at their audition revealing a very different side to their boyband image.<\/p>\n<p>The five piece band who&#8217;s members are Matthew, Jamie, Tom, Michael and Richard, belt out Stars from the hit musical Les Mis\u00e9rables in a manner that got the judges attention.<\/p>\n<p>[imagebrowser id=7]<\/p>\n<p>The singers admitted: \u201cWe have only really sung in front of our friends and family before, so this is our debut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo get a standing ovation from an audience of this size would be out of this world. It would be outstanding!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After their performance Amanda later admitted: \u201cYou have reduced me to tears. I could burst with pride for you because that was bloody brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/04\/collabro.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6792\" title=\"collabro\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/04\/collabro.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/04\/collabro.png 570w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/04\/collabro-300x166.png 300w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/04\/collabro-200x110.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simon said: \u201cWhen the five of you came out I thought \u2018here we go again, another boyband, this is going to be awful\u2019 but it was an absolutely brilliant audition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a hit record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Walliams gushed: \u201cIt was a faultless performance guys, it was fantastic. It was not an obvious choice of song either, which was great, because we hear the same songs over and over again. I really think this could be very big.<\/p>\n<p>Alesha Dixon jumped on the bandwagon too and concluded: \u201cYou have achieved that in a month? That is astonishing. It\u2019s one of the strongest auditions I have ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo do so much in such a short space of time\u2026.how do you do that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collabro won four yeses and a place in the next round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/04\/collabro2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6830\" title=\"collabro boyband\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/04\/collabro2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/04\/collabro2.png 570w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/04\/collabro2-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7469702309\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>See their performance in this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lyDDrSGAe70?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/6791\/collabro-sings-stars-from-les-miserables-on-britain-got-talent-2014-and-surprised-the-judges\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1805371;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Got Talent judges \u2013 Simon Cowell, David Walliams, Alesha Dixon and Amanda Holden &#8211; got a big surprise from musical singing group Collabro when they sang at their audition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1805371;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-6791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auditions","tag-bgt-2014","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/04\/collabro2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6791"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6828,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions\/6828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}