{"id":146034,"date":"2025-11-18T08:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146034\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:17:10","slug":"child-star-leah-barniville-being-on-britains-got-talent-at-age-14-was-like-an-out-of-body-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146034\/","title":{"rendered":"Child star Leah Barniville: \u2018Being on Britain\u2019s Got Talent at age 14 was like an out-of-body experience\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Singer and actor Leah Barniville (23) from Dublin on her big break on the TV talent show, meeting Simon Cowell and her newest role in Christmas panto \u2018Cinderella\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leah Barniville: \u2018Being on BGT gave me the belief in myself that I might actually be able to do this as a career\u2019. Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\/Provision\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fb910e1e-84ee-45b2-bd7b-141bbb455b57.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Leah Barniville: \u2018Being on BGT gave me the belief in myself that I might actually be able to do this as a career\u2019. Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\/Provision<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI remember the very day my mam told me about Britain\u2019s Got Talent. I was sitting at my kitchen island after school, and she said, \u2018Oh I saw on Facebook today that Britain\u2019s Got Talent are accepting auditions by tape, and they\u2019re closing tomorrow\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">She asked if she could send in a video of me singing. I was 14 at the time and being like a typical moody teenager. I said \u2018oh, there\u2019s no point. I\u2019ll ever get anywhere. I don\u2019t even watch it\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer and actor Leah Barniville (23) from Dublin on her big break on the TV talent show, meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,9715,30028,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-146034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-kirsty-blake-knox","12":"tag-simon-cowell","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}