BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT MUM HITS BACK AFTER ‘FAKE’ CLAIMS
A NUNEATON mum says she’s in turmoil after claims she deceived viewers in her Britain’s Got Talent audition.
Sian Pattison made it onto TV on Saturday after her daughter signed her up without her knowing and pushed her to battle her nerves.
But the excitement of Sian’s appearance was tainted after she faced backlash from viewers and the media over her performing past and her daughter’s involvement.
Sian’s audition stood out on the show as it was revealed that her 10-year-old daughter Ebony applied on her behalf. But among the comments were claims that Ebony hadn’t applied and Sian was making it up.
Ebony then apologised to her mum on Sunday night after the youngster saw she had been upset by the online comments,
Sian said: “What broke my heart was that she felt in some way responsible and getting that apology from a place it should never have come from.”
The 31-year-old mum-ofthree, who teaches at the Alana Shirley Academy, has been left feeling heartbroken after stories emerged claiming she had been hiding a ‘secret’.
She told the Telegraph: “I feel like I am being battered and bruised in all directions.
“It’s put a massive dampener on what should have been a positive experience. Britain’s Got Talent were aware I had sung before and I have been honest and open about it. I’m a hard working mum of three kids, never in a million years did I think I would see my face plastered all over these websites shrouded in negativity.
“I’ve felt that I couldn’t defend myself, I have that fear of making it worse, but should I really have to sit back and say nothing?”
Sian, who went to Higham Lane school and lived in Nuneaton her whole life before moving to Yorkshire in 2011, hasn’t sung full time since she was 18 and she spent nine years studying law part time to be a solicitor while working.
Headlines claiming fans of the show were ‘fuming’ at Sian’s ‘fake nerves’ appeared online before the show had even aired.
Suggestions were made that because Sian has sung professionally for years she was faking her stage fright on the show. In fact, Sian has battled performance nerves for years and she has even had hypnotherapy in the past to try and deal with it.
She added: “It’s never come easy, most of the time I sing in a duo because it’s safety in numbers. I have always had the stage fright. I would have loved to have gone to stage school but the thought of putting myself out there to be judged by someone with influence, I just couldn’t do it. I have had that my whole life, I have watched so many people around me go on to do great things but I’ve never had the confidence to do it.
“I didn’t want to be a sob story, I wanted to be judged on my ability to sing,”
Sian said: “I think it’s a sad state of affairs when people can’t just accept things for how they are, why did it have to be a set up?
“At the same time I understand it, people don’t know the whole story, bits have been edited out. Obviously, they can’t keep everything in.
“Why would I hide that? I stood on that stage and had that conversation. It’s heart-wrenching for me, they have completely missed the point.
“I have sung since I was a child, I will never deny that, it’s not a secret. I have done the pubs and clubs in Nuneaton and Coventry. Regardless of what I have done before I have never done anything in a million years on the scale of the show and to suggest I have is ridiculous.
“As for my fake nerves I challenge anyone to stand on that stage and not be nervous, Simon asked me why I had never auditioned before, he did not ask why I had never sung before because he knew I had, yet it has been perceived as me being a novice which is something I have never claimed. I have never set foot in a stage school, I did all of my lessons with a lady at her house in Bedworth.
“It’s frustrating because I never said I had never sung. I am proud that I have learnt my craft singing in pubs, clubs and golf clubs, it taught me a lot.”
But does Sian regret going on the show?
“For the negativity, for sure I regret it, I went on there to help with my confidence and it’s done the absolute opposite,” she said.
“For the lesson it taught Ebony and for the lesson she taught me, the look on her face, seeing how proud she was, I could never regret that.
“I will carry the look on Ebony’s face till I take my last breath. As a parent to do something like that, regardless of what anyone has said, no one can take that away from me,” added Sian. She put me forward because she believed in me and she was proud of me. She said just try and that’s what I did.”
It’s put a massive dampener on the experience... I feel like I’m being battered and bruised in all directions. Sian Pattison