{"id":464927,"date":"2026-03-08T22:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/464927\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:40:08","slug":"finley-barrett-carter-wows-britains-got-talent-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/464927\/","title":{"rendered":"Finley Barrett-Carter wows Britain\u2019s Got Talent judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  \u201cThis is a dream come true for me,\u201d said Finley Barrett-Carter as applause filled the Winter Gardens in Blackpool.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWhere did that come from?\u201d asked YouTuber KSI after hearing Finley\u2019s booming voice.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt looked like you were having the best time of your life up there,\u201d Dixon told Finley.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Finley said he busks \u201cevery weekend in York\u201d and is regularly told he does not look how he sounds.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His rendition of the classic hit earned him high praise \u2013 even from the notoriously harsh judge Cowell.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read next:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/24276069.singer-finley-barratt-carter-raises-1300-st-leonards\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  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":"\u201cThis is a dream come true for me,\u201d said Finley Barrett-Carter as applause filled the Winter Gardens in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-464927","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\/464927","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=464927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}