{"id":455084,"date":"2026-03-03T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455084\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:50:08","slug":"britains-got-talent-poet-from-essex-describes-surreal-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455084\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Got Talent poet from Essex describes surreal experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A poet who wowed the judges on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent (BGT) has said he hopes to kick off a &#8220;renaissance&#8221; in spoken-word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sonny Green, 31, from Southend-on-Sea, could be seen performing a version of his poem This Is What England Means To Me on the ITV show on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judges Simon Cowell, KSI, Alisha Dixon and Amanda Holden gave him a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was just so surreal,&#8221; said Green, who is also an actor, musician and market trader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A poet who wowed the judges on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent (BGT) has said he hopes to kick off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}