Ireland’s got talent on X Factor and BGT
IRELAND will have someone to cheer for in both X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent this year, as Irish acts have made it through to the next stages of both shows.
The Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal that singer Aimée Fitzpatrick has made it through to the auditions and will appear on X Factor, which airs in September, while last night comedy act The Lords Of Strut got through to the next round of Britain’s Got Talent.
Fitzpatrick has been singing and dancing since she was three.
In 2013, when she was just 17, she appeared on the Late Late Show in a competition to represent Ireland in the Eurovision. While she was unsuccessful in her bid to become the Irish Eurovision entry, it didn’t put a halt to her drive for pop stardom. In April this year, X Factor auditions came to Ireland and thousands of young hopefuls pitched up – and Aimée was plucked from the wannabes and invited to sing again for Simon Cowell and his judges.
And while we wait for X Factor to start, Irish viewers can follow the progress of Lords Of Strut – a comic duo who impressed the Britain’s Got Talent judges last night.
The Lords Of Strut impressed got three of the judges on side with their acrobatic comedy dance act to 1980s classic Take On Me. Despite Simon Cowell declaring he ‘didn’t get it’, the other judges voted ‘Yes’ to the comedy ‘brothers’, also known as Cian Kinsella from Carlow and Cormac Mohally from Cork.
Alesha Dixon praised their dancing, saying: ‘You were doing some really difficult moves.’