{"id":615284,"date":"2026-06-01T13:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615284\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:31:16","slug":"west-bilney-singing-farmer-says-choirs-bgt-win-so-surreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615284\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bilney singing farmer says choir’s BGT win ‘so surreal’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooke, 35, said being in the choir had given him “extra support” in his job, which could be “very lonely and isolating”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the win, the choir celebrated at a pub in London, where they were joined by Clarkson and one of the ITV talent show’s judges, Amanda Holden.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a bit of a whirlwind,” said Brooke.<\/p>\n

“I was saying to my wife earlier that actually, I’m quite looking forward to coming home. <\/p>\n

“It’s all well and good, but you know, the thing that I actually love is farming, not that I don’t love singing.”<\/p>\n

Brooke had been unsure about joining the choir.<\/p>\n

He had felt out of his comfort zone in the rehearsals, having only ever “sung to my daughter”.<\/p>\n

It was his wife who replied to an advert for singers for a farmers’ choir. Brooke was chosen and given a baritone-bass role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooke, 35, said being in the choir had given him “extra support” in his job, which could be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-615284","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\/615284","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=615284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}