{"id":319481,"date":"2026-03-08T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/319481\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:48:07","slug":"a-dream-come-true-york-singer-wows-britains-got-talent-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/319481\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A dream come true\u2019 &#8211; York singer wows Britain\u2019s Got Talent judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A York singer has wowed all four judges on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis is a dream come true for me,\u201d said Finley Barrett-Carter as applause filled the Winter Gardens in Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 20-year-old student\u2019s rendition of Burning Love by Elvis Presley impressed the ITV show&#8217;s judges, Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and KSI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhere did that come from?\u201d asked YouTuber KSI after hearing Finley\u2019s booming voice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt looked like you were having the best time of your life up there,\u201d Dixon told Finley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Finley said he busks \u201cevery weekend in York\u201d and is regularly told he does not look how he sounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His rendition of the classic hit earned him high praise \u2013 even from the notoriously harsh judge Cowell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe audience love you \u2013 you are through, go and celebrate,\u201d Cowell said, giving the final vote for Finley to proceed to the competition\u2019s next round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read next:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If successful in winning Britain&#8217;s Got Talent, Finley will be set to take home a \u00a3250,000 prize pot and a spot at the Royal Variety Performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/24276069.singer-finley-barratt-carter-raises-1300-st-leonards\/?ref=ed_direct\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Press reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Press reported<\/a>, Finley is best known for performing around York and for a gig held last April at The Cottage Inn in Haxby, in partnership with Carefound Home Care, to raise money for St Leonard\u2019s Hospice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The gig was in memory of his grandfather and Mark Payne, both of whom passed away after receiving care at St Leonard&#8217;s, and raised\u00a0more than \u00a31,300 with donations including a customised Ernie Ball Music Man Axis guitar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A York singer has wowed all four judges on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent. \u201cThis is a dream come true&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[163164,43513,9307,156,172862,172863,111,139,69,38480,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-319481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-alesha-dixon","9":"tag-amanda-holden","10":"tag-elvis-presley","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-finley-barrett-carter","13":"tag-judges-on-britain39s-got-talent","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-simon-cowell","18":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}