{"id":587468,"date":"2026-05-16T15:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587468\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:14:18","slug":"pressure-is-a-privilege-says-bgt-semi-finalist-from-winchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587468\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure is a privilege, says BGT semi-finalist from Winchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reflecting on his success so far, he said he still &#8220;cannot believe it happened&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been pretty amazing walking around college, everyone has just been so supportive,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rafferty told Radio Solent it has given him a &#8220;extra spring in his step&#8221; but insisted he has not let the new-found fame go to his head, adding that he &#8220;just feels extremely lucky that people have watched it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said getting to perform at the Hammersmith Apollo in London for the show will be a &#8220;dream come true&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It really feels like a huge honour getting to perform again on a stage, which I grew up watching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rafferty has previously performed the Hat Fair street entertainment event in Winchester and was a chorister at the city&#8217;s cathedral for five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His semi-final appearance will air at 18:00 BST on ITV1 and ITVX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the teen wins the show, he will win a cash prize of \u00a3250,000 and the chance to perform in front of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in the Royal Variety Performance.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reflecting on his success so far, he said he still &#8220;cannot believe it happened&#8221;. &#8220;It&#8217;s been pretty amazing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-587468","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\/587468","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=587468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}