Potts: 'I feared Talent could be the end' (VIDEO)

Potts: 'I feared Talent could be the end' (VIDEO)
Potts: 'I feared Talent could be the end' (VIDEO) (Image credit: AP/Press Association Images)

Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts has admitted that he went along to his audition expecting it to be the last time he would sing. Opera singer Paul impressed both the crowds and the judges at his first audition for the ITV1 show with a stunning rendition of Nessun Dorma, going on to become the contest's first ever winner back in 2007. Paul told whatsontv.co.uk: "I saw that performance as the final time I'd ever sing. What I saw at that point was a dead end - I didn't see anything beyond it. But it turned out be a turning point in my life." And Paul - who releases his second album, Passione, in the UK next month - certainly never anticipated the success that would follow winning the show. He said: "I never expected to even get through to the next round. I've been round the world five times since and that's just mind boggling. I feel I'm truly blessed." CLICK below to watch Paul Potts talking about his Britain's Got Talent audition

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.