Simon Cowell hails 10-year-old wannabe Beyonce

Simon Cowell hails 10-year-old wannabe Beyonce
Simon Cowell hails 10-year-old wannabe Beyonce (Image credit: Ken McKay)

Simon Cowell describes a 10-year-old Beyonce wannabe as 'adorable' during the Britain's Got Talent auditions. The TV show judge was impressed when Natalie Okri from south London - who said she wants to be 'like Beyonce' - sang No One by Alicia Keys in an audition which will be shown on Saturday's show. He said she was 'totally and utterly adorable', while fellow judge Piers Morgan said: "You are a very, very little girl with a very very big voice, I loved it." The judges also see 11-year-old Aidan Davis from Birmingham, who was so impressed watching breakdancer George Sampson on the show last year that he was inspired to give the auditions a go himself. Dancing to Low by Flo Rida and featuring T-Pain, Aidan showed off his home-taught dance moves. Piers said: "When George won last year we all feared we'd get millions of little Georges trying their luck that wouldn't be anywhere near as good as him, but I think you are as good as George." Simon declared: "You are super, super, super talented." Britain's Got Talent screens on ITV1 on Saturday night

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.