10-year-old Akai wins Sky1's Got To Dance (VIDEO)

10-year-old Akai wins Sky1's Got To Dance (VIDEO)
10-year-old Akai wins Sky1's Got To Dance (VIDEO) (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Ten-year-old street dancer Akai Osei won Sky1's Got to Dance contest on Sunday night. Akai, from Orpington, Kent, was crowned Britain's Best Dance Act and scooped a £100,000 cash prize. After six acts performed in the main final, Akai was voted through to the top three alongside ballet dance group The Box and street dance troupe Jukebox Juniors. All three acts then performed their routines from the semi-final stages of the competition to secure votes to determine the show's winner. As host Davina McCall announced Akai had won, he said: "This is amazing! It's been the best night of my life." Akai, who has only been dancing for a year, said he wanted to spend some of his prize money on a new mobile phone. He added: "I also want to give money to charity." Diversity, featuring the show's judge Ashley Banjo, also performed during the finale. CLICK below to watch Akai's final Got To Dance performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBx74mSr-TI&hl=en_GB&fs=1

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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.