{"id":601590,"date":"2026-05-24T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601590\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:34:09","slug":"farmers-choir-celebrate-britains-got-talent-semi-final-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601590\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers&#8217; choir celebrate Britain&#8217;s Got Talent semi-final success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Chick, a farmer based in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, said performing on Saturday &#8220;was the most exhilarating experience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said waiting to find out if they had got through to the final was tense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It really does mean the world to us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There were people in such a tears, including me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Abbie Condon, a farmer from Witney, Oxfordshire, said: &#8220;I was having a bit of a rough time this time last year when the choir all started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just given me this shining light to look at the whole time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s always something on the cards for the choir to be doing and that&#8217;s just really picked me up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Chick, a farmer based in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, said performing on Saturday &#8220;was the most exhilarating experience&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-601590","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\/601590","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=601590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}