{"id":610726,"date":"2026-05-29T17:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610726\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:44:09","slug":"widnes-student-to-perform-in-britains-got-talent-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610726\/","title":{"rendered":"Widnes student to perform in Britain&#8217;s Got Talent final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Saoirse Knowles will perform with her dance group in the grand final of the talent show on Saturday, May 30, hoping to impress the nation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The LMA group impressed the judges during the auditions in Blackpool last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Saoirse&#8217;s mum Marisa has been cheering her on (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Saoirse&#8217;s journey to the semi-finals had been a well-kept secret, as she had to undergo a series of preparations before getting the green light to perform.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This included handing over access to her social media accounts, undertaking another Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, and attending a full medical.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Saoirse visiting the children at Beechwood Link Club, where she used to attend as a child, with students Elsie Clarke and Archie Goulding (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She also juggled university work and a part-time job alongside ten hours of daily rehearsals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Britain&#8217;s Got Talent final will be shown live on ITV tomorrow evening, Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The finale has an extended two-and-a-half-hour slot, with the programme airing from 7 pm to 9.30 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saoirse Knowles will perform with her dance group in the grand final of the talent show on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-610726","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\/610726","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=610726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}