{"id":609813,"date":"2026-05-29T06:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609813\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T06:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:21:08","slug":"bgt-finalist-sonny-green-bent-rules-so-his-kids-could-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609813\/","title":{"rendered":"BGT finalist Sonny Green bent rules so his kids could watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green’s children rushed on to the stage and hugged him as he ended his poem, which was dedicated to them – and it moved judges Amanda Holden and KSI to tears.<\/p>\n

He described it as “one of the best moments of our lives”, adding: “They smashed it… the world’s their oyster.”<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old, whose work was featured during London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display<\/a>, hopes to be crowned winner on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

On the line is a \u00a3250,000 prize and the chance to get on-stage at the Royal Variety Performance in November.<\/p>\n

Green said he had written something “completely new” for his act, revealing most of it was written on Southend’s seafront.<\/p>\n

He added: “It will change my life completely if I win that show.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green’s children rushed on to the stage and hugged him as he ended his poem, which was dedicated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-609813","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\/609813","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=609813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}