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| The Final - What The Panel Said |
| For the final show the panel were honoured with the presence of a Mr Jonathan Ross! Click below to find out whether they had nasty or nice things to say about the performances... |  |
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Song: "Man I Feel Like A Woman" (Shania Twain)
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| Patrick Kielty: look at you with a big grin on your face! Happy with that? |
| Carolynne: yeah I am, whatever, I surely am happy with that. |
| Patrick Kielty: okay, erm, someone will be leaving at the end of this first show. Er, what do we make of that? Tough to open the show, tough to open the final... David? |
| David Grant: what's the show opener, I mean yeah it is tough, it's the final, they're all nervous. That really has set the bar high, I think that that's probably Carolynne's best performance, I think. (Cheers from audience) |
| Robin Gibb: I agree, I agree. I thought it was one of your best performances. A little nervous, but erm, you've got better every, every time you've done the show and you're in the top three tonight. (Cheers) |
| Patrick Kielty: Jonathan? |
| Jonathan Ross: I thought that was fantastic! I think that's why people love Carolynne... (Cheers)... because she's a young beautiful woman and she's got so much energy and life. And when you sung that song, I felt like a woman as well! (Carolynne laughs) |
| Patrick Kielty: I think a little bit of all of us did. Richard, did you feel like a woman? |
| Richard Park: Erm, thank you Patrick for that ingenuine opening of yours. What I would like to say is, it wasn't flawless but I want to give you a full marks for leading off the evening. The tension in here, I can feel it, Jonathan Ross is actually shaking beside me here. But you came through with power, with passion, with drive, with determination and you probably have played yourself into the game because I think you'll be getting a few votes right now. Well done! |
| Carrie Grant: …"I think I'm going to be in the bottom three this week, oh no, I'm going to be in the bottom three!"... and here you are in the top three. And that is because you've earned your right to be there. You are the ultimate... (Cheers) |
| Patrick Kielty: okay, there is only one way that this woman is going to be in her second show tonight, that is if you pick up the phone and give your vote. Give it up for Carolynne! Well played you. |
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Song: "If You Come Back" (Blue)
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| Patrick Kielty: good work fella... soak up the love! All right, okay please. Now, before the show we went chatting about nerves, er, get it out there, er, how do you feel? |
| Patrick Kielty: yeah, and do think the performance was good enough? |
| Patrick Kielty:... hope so. Let's find out, let's go to JR first, Jonathan |
| Jonathan Ross: I thought it was great, I think if you were nervous you didn't show it, you know you have a tremendous voice, you really do... and I don't know that much about these sort of things. I imagine that is not an easy song to sing, it sounds like there's a lot of work going there. You handled it perfectly, and also, you know, I believe you when you're singing songs like that. I think you're in the moment, I think it was great, it was fantastic. (Cheers) |
| Richard Park: I didn't like it... (boos)... to be honest... I don't think... I don't think that particular Blue song suited you, so I have to be honest about this (more boos) |
| Patrick Kielty: please, please guys, please, let's hear Richard... |
| Richard Park: I started by saying I didn't like it and I said, continuing in my regular honest fashion, the problem is of course we've heard that as a group song before, and I think it was just a difficulty in trying to work out which parts you were singing and where you were exactly taking it. You've been a good student... you know what I think, I think out there playing lawn darts it's marvellous, but er, attempting to win this competition, I think you ought not to win with that song but we'll see what comes later. |
| Patrick Kielty: okay, Robin? |
| Robin Gibb: I liked it, but then I've always liked Alistair's voice, I think he's got a great recording voice (Cheers) |
| Patrick Kielty: and performance? |
| Robin Gibb: I think, ... it is a difficult song to sing, it is a group song but I think you handled it a very well, I mean if you were singing onstage you'd have the same kind of obstacles, trying to hear yourself, so you did a good job on it. |
| David Grant: good performance, very good performance, I didn't see any sign of nerves. All the stuff that we'd work through in rehearsals, you gelled it, you made it all work for you, I thought it was a very good performance. |
| Carrie Grant: I think that there were a few tuning issues actually on some of those high notes, but I think that we have to say "it's the last night", how nervous are these guys going to be standing up there?... and I thought you did ['well' (drowned out by audience cheers)]. |
| Patrick Kielty: okay, four out of five teachers thought it was good, one didn't, surprise surprise. If you thought it was good enough, pickup that phone and keep him in the final tonight by giving him your vote. Alistair everybody! (Cheers) |
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Song: "Baby Can I Hold You" (Tracy Chapman)
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| Patrick Kielty: okay... a lot of people, a lot of people in here had the hairs up in the back of their neck, that for me was just, it was there... what do the teachers think of that? |
| Richard and David: well... |
| Richard Park:... well sorry David... I'll just leap in very, very briefly to say that I thought the first 30 seconds was disappointing, I was quite worried for you because I thought you'd gone down the wrong trail and you haven't often done that, but you turned that around absolutely magnificently and finished with an absolutely storming performance (Cheers). |
| Carrie Grant: you know we have to remember that four months ago you were sitting in Cornwall and you were an out of work clown. And your dad sent... (Laughter)... your dad sent a VHS video and you weren't even going to go up for this Academy at all, and I'm just so grateful to your dad tonight that he thought of sending that video. (Cheers) |
| Robin Gibb:... absolutely superb for me, I thought that was great. You've come leaps and bounds since the beginning, it was just tremendous. (Cheers) |
| David Grant: this is the final, you can cut the nerves in the atmosphere with a knife in here... |
| Patrick Kielty: were you nervous? |
| David Grant: we've had three really good performances to open up with, and I'd say that of the three so far that's the best one. (Cheers) |
| Jonathan Ross: I... I've been lucky over the last 15 something years of my career. I've sat this close to some of the biggest stars in the world. I've sat near some of the greatest performers, some of the most inspirational artists, and that was up their with just about everyone I've ever seen. (Cheers) |
| Patrick Kielty: so what do you make of that? |
| Alex:... just say thank you |
| Patrick Kielty: okay, a lot of people are talking this girl up as the winner. She will not be the winner unless you pickup the phone and give her your vote. Alex everyone, well played you. |
| Carolynne |
Song: "Underneath Your Clothes" (Shakira)
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| Alistair |
Song: "Wherever You Will Go" (The Calling)
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| Alex |
Song: "Beautiful" (Christina Aguilera)
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| Patrick Kielty: now the teachers have worked with them, every week they've watched every move, their progress... let's get their thoughts on those three songs. |
| David Grant: right, can I start. I want to say that one of the things that I was really knocked out by all of the three songs, is the fact that it's the second time they've sung them all and they all sing them significantly better than they did the first time. So it shows what massive progress they've all made. Carolynne, I thought technically that was a superb performance. I thought that she sounded great, completely in control of the song, really passionate. Alistair, I think he started slowly but when he got into the meat of the song he really carried it off and he pulled it all back. I thought that Alex was excellent. (Cheers). |
| Robin Gibb: Carolynne, I thought you were better the second time with that song, I thought it was absolutely tremendous performance. Alistair, er, I've always liked your voice, so I mean you can sing anything for me and I like it (laugher), but based on the pair, a good performance and Alex superb. |
| Patrick Kielty: okay, Carrie someone is going to go here at the end of this show... |
| Carrie Grant: well for me sitting here I just felt really proud of all three of you and how far you've come. Because you really have all moved on so much and particularly for Carolynne and for Alistair, just remembering back those weeks and thinking, God I remember when we were saying they haven't got any identity, 'where's the identity?'… and just thinking, 'you really have that now' and you have to remember 'that', you know you've really come on. Erm, all... all excellent performances tonight. If I had to pick a favourite one it would have to be Alex's I think... 'cause the emotion. (Cheers) |
| Patrick Kielty: someone is going to go at the end of this show though. We don't need one, we're going to be having two to go through to the final. Who do you think that's going to be Jonathan? |
| Jonathan Ross: who do I think's going to go? |
| Patrick Kielty: yeah who do think's going to go? |
| Jonathan Ross: I don't want to have to answer that... |
| Patrick Kielty: …that's why I'm asking you… |
| Jonathan Ross: why do you make me answer that Patrick for gods sake?... I think you should bloody well go! |
| Patrick Kielty: okay, thank you very much (chuckles)... that's put a big smile on Richard Park's face! |
| Richard Park: (laughing) at last... |
| Jonathan Ross: take him with you and make up, kiss and make up... |
| Patrick Kielty: exactly, yeah we'd all be happy then! |
| Jonathan Ross: you know I think it's too... how can we choose here... in this building now, I don't know how it's playing at home, but in this building right now, all three of them with distinctive, different styles and different sorts of songs, 'blew the roof off'. Everyone of you, it was fantastic. Carolynne you look beautiful, she's got the long shiny hair going and the hair flicking. You were great Alistair. Alex you already know my feelings about you, you blew me away as well... I think all three of you, it's the oldest cliche in the book, but there are no losers on that stage apart from the Irish bloke. You know... (laughter) |
| Patrick Kielty: okay, thank you very much, and once you get your backside off the fence... we'll now go to Richard. Richard there is going to be a tough decision made at the end of this show. What do you make of the performances? |
| Richard Park: yeah, it is going to be a tough decision actually because I think Carolynne showed herself to be at her very best form this evening. That's two good ones in a row... (Cheers)... and what she... what she possesses that w...(will be)... beneficial in the music business is that power and that inner drive and that self belief that she has. Alistair I think showed the bits that I like about Alistair in that song, which is he's definitely, you know, a performer of ability. I've still got worries about the odd note here and there, and the odd nasal quality in the odd adenoid. And turning to Alex, again mesmeric, superb, fabulous. If that came out as a single on Monday that would go straight to the top of the charts, because it would sell the hundred thousand that you require to get to the chart top these days. That was the best performance seen in the Academy this semester! (Cheers) |
| Patrick Kielty: okay... David? |
| David Grant: can I say the one thing... yeah the one thing that I would add. One of them is going to go, only one person is going to be the winner, but from what I've seen tonight already I can tell you any one of them would win any other talent show out there. |
| David Grant: any one of them. |
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Song: "Everything I Own" (Bread)
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| Patrick Kielty: put it there my friend! Okay... all right we were talking just before this show and you said that you didn't think this was happening, it wasn't real, has it hit home now? |
| Patrick Kielty: yeah... okay er, teachers this is it of course, er, only two left. Only two more performances from Alistair, what do we make of it so far? |
| Carrie Grant: Alistair's going into a very over saturated area of the pop market, but with a performance like that you absolutely shine in that area. That was fantastic. (Cheers) |
| Robin Gibb:... again... excellent performance and I think that song was perfect for your voice and er, I loved it, it was fab. (Cheers). |
| Patrick Kielty: Jonathan? |
| Jonathan Ross: I've got to agree, certainly what Robin said. You know earlier on in the series I wasn't such a big fan of Alistair's singing. I didn't, I wasn't... I didn't warm to it so much, but having the chance to listen to him here this evening and hear you singing live, and actually getting to enjoy the qualities of your voice there, I really liked that a lot and... and congratulations. (Cheers) |
| David Grant: Alistair... Alistair came into the series, sort of with an awareness of I think, what was required to win and he came in with a strategy and management are now going to have to do something to develop him beyond and give leadership to his career... |
| Patrick Kielty: what does he need? |
| David Grant:... to make sure that the songs he sings suit him as much as that song suited him. Because I tell you what, you give Alistair a song that really suits him, he can really, really deliver. And I thought that that performance, he really delivered. |
| Patrick Kielty: Richard of course in the first show wasn't so sure, let's see it we've managed to persuade him with that one. |
| Richard Park: well it was by no means perfect in my view, but he milked it... |
| Richard Park:... right to the very end... he milked it... |
| Patrick Kielty: he milked it? |
| Richard Park: yes he did, and if you were looking on your television sets and saw the way that he bent the head down and leant at the end. Yes he's learnt inside this Academy... |
| Carrie Grant: that's performance! |
| Patrick Kielty: surely that's performance Richard? |
| Richard Park: Hang on... well I'm not saying it isn't performance. I'm saying that is what he's learnt inside this Academy, one of the many things he's learnt inside this Academy is how to conduct himself throughout a song so as at the end, at least we feel he was singing that song to us. So Patrick that's not a minus, that's a plus. And as I said right at the start I don't think he did at all badly their, which is better than I normally give him, but it wasn't 100%. That's an honest view. |
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Song: "Imagine" (John Lennon)
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| Patrick Kielty: where do we go from there? Jonathan? |
| Jonathan Ross: did you and Alistair and Alex all get your hair done at the same place? Because er, when they record this show they must sell out of gel at the nearby chemist... you're all spiked up... |
| Patrick Kielty:... it's called this centuries hairdo Jonathan...you should think about it! |
| Jonathan Ross: aaah, here we go... there's nothing wrong with where we get our hair done is there? Erm, that was fantastic, because you've taken on a song there which most people I think would shy away from. If ever there is a song so closely associated to an artist with whom we all have, you know, those of us who like him have an incredible kind of feeling about. It's a brave person who'd take that song on. You not only do it, you manage to make it your own. And you know what I love about the way Alex sings? I love the fact that when you're singing, and even when you're not singing... I know there's something going on inside your head, I know there's something interesting going on, there is a connection you make there. I'd love to have seen you as a clown, I bet you scared the life out of most of the kids you ever had to entertain. (Laughter) but as a singer it really works for you. And I think it's a tremendous quality which I don't think you can actually learn, and although my fellow teachers and I, we've done our best with you over the last few weeks, you know, I've been working on the elocution for all of them... but we've all done our best, erm, I don't think you can learn that. I think that's something you have and that's what make you so special. (Cheers) |
| Patrick Kielty: okay. Alrighty…let's forget about being a clown, let's talk about being a singer. Robin what did you make of that? |
| Robin Gibb: I loved it. Erm again I think er, you're performing some of the best erm, the best parts of your ability are shining tonight I think because it's the last show and this is where it all ends. |
| Patrick Kielty: do you think that she's done the song proud? |
| Robin Gibb: oh absolutely! yeah (Cheers) |
| David Grant: last year in a poll... last year in a poll this was voted like the nation's favourite song. So I'm like, it's one of those songs that you just don't touch. And it's never actually been my favourite John Lennon song, but it is now! |
| Carrie Grant: I think that when we auditioned 12,000 people it was like going out there trying to get little diamonds and I feel like when we found Alex we found a rough cut diamond... and I think over the last 10 weeks you have honed your skills and I think when you go out into the industry you go out as a unique artist. |
| Patrick Kielty: Richard, we've seen the last two solo performances from them tonight. Er, who do you think is edging it at this stage for you? |
| Richard Park: well that performance, I think possibly even Alistair himself would agree, that performance was absolutely special. I don't think British TV has seen a 19-year-old come on live onto BBC1 and perform at that level. And whether you're 15, 25, 35 I think that erm, if that's on your album people will want to go out and buy a copy. You've been superb, you've been a marvellous representative for the part of the country from which you come, a great advert for Fame Academy, more power to your considerable elbow. |
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Song: "Bring It On" (Alistair Griffin)
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| Patrick Kielty: let's get this out of the way. You see Daniel Bedingfield, he has got talent! Er, (audience cheers) okay... now I would say he is probably the best songwriter in the Academy. You have written hundreds of hits Robin, what did you make of that? |
| Robin Gibb: when I heard that for the first time I knew that you had the ability and the skill to write a pop song, and that proves it. There was another song you sang too... (muffled)... so you've definitely got the skill. You've got to take that forward and develop that, and I think you will. I think you do have the potential to be a great songwriter. (Cheers) |
| Patrick Kielty: okay. Jonathan? |
| Jonathan Ross: I erm, I find myself, you know I've heard that once before, I heard it on the show. I was singing along then, I was clapping. That so would be a hit if that came out and it would deserve to be. You know what er, what struck me as being really interesting is how much more comfortable you look and how much more relaxed you look when you're singing your own stuff and you've got a guitar there. And I think that's where your future lies... is not doing other people songs which is, I hope 'a nice' in here... doing your own stuff onstage and people really getting off on it, that's... that's the way forward for you I think... |
| Patrick Kielty: it is important to do your own stuff isn't it Carrie? |
| Carrie Grant: I think for any artist these days... you know our show isn't about just making a sausage machine thing, it's about actually innovators and people that will write their own stuff and Alistair has proved he is a very good songwriter, yeah. (Cheers) |
| David Grant: I think that er, I think that that's a very good song and I... I think that that's a hit song and I think that what Alistair needs to do now is to write either on his own or with other people and use that as the lowest common denominator. Write better songs, write stronger songs. Keep on going from there, use that as a building block and hopefully, you know, write a collection of hit songs because as Robin said, I think that's where his future lies. |
| Patrick Kielty: okay, and the final word from Richard... |
| Richard Park: yeah, the acid test is always if a song gets into your brain, and I have to confess Alistair, that one has got into my brain. (Cheers) |
| Patrick Kielty: shocked! Richard Park impressed! I will shake your paw and say "Give It Up For Alistair!", well played fella! |
| Cat Deeley: absolutely unbelievable, I'm shocked and stunned. |
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Song: "Maybe That's What It Takes" (Alex Parks)
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| Patrick Kielty: okay, all-righty we're getting down to the sharp end, it's the final time were going to go to the teachers. Er, Richard? |
| Richard Park: the highest compliment I can pay you is that that song could have been written by somebody like Annie Lennox. That was extraordinarily moving, your talent is outstanding, outrageous. That... that was truly beautiful, and quite sincerely I am moved, fabulous. Fabulous! (Cheers) |
| Patrick Kielty: okay Robin? Obviously we know Alistair more as a songwriter, that's the first time we've actually heard Alex... |
| Robin Gibb: excellent. Is that the first song you've written or is it just one of many songs you've written? (Alex indicates it one of many) That's fine, that was fabulous, it was terrific. And the performance of it was terrific as well. (Cheers) |
| David Grant: well that song, that's only the second time I've heard that song and I know it was written in the Academy... and erm, I actually think that in the last few weeks you've emerged as a songwriter in here, you've really developed your songwriting and if that's the standard that your writing to, I think you're going to be a significant songwriter. (Cheers) |
| Carrie Grant: also I think with Alex, I know that song I've obviously been rehearsing with you all this week, and it really grows on you. It really is a "grower" and you know, that's a sign of a really good song as well. I think Alex is a lot younger in terms of her writing than Alistair, but I think she shows real promise and potential. (Cheers) |
| Jonathan Ross: well you know, of all the students I've worked with in my time here at the Fame Academy, the one I'm proudest of... |
| Patrick Kielty: you've seen them come and go haven't you? |
| Jonathan Ross: the proudest of the work I've put in really... who was rubbish when she started here and I've... I've found something in you and I think I've... I've buffed it up!... (audience laughs) |
| Patrick Kielty: do you feel personally responsible? |
| Jonathan Ross: I think really I deserve at least 15% of all future royalties which... (laughter)... which will be huge I hope. We've been working on a song together, a tribute to Robin, about bees called "Hive Talking", and I'd like that to be on the album. |
| Patrick Kielty: I'm not sure whether it's going to be... |
| Jonathan Ross: that's not even a joke is it! |
| Jonathan Ross: it was great, I'm running out of superlatives. It was wonderful I, I loved hearing your voice yet again, but the song, both of the songs we've just heard... and we've heard some great songs tonight... but I think both of the songs we've just heard, yours and Alistair's, both of them deserve to be in the company of the other songs this evening... and I can't think of higher praise than that really. |
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