Sue gets BGT on feet after late mum’s note to Si inspires audition

BRITAIN’S Got Talent’s Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, Ant and Dec and David Walliams break into dance as Sue Moretta belts out Rain On My Parade on tonight’s show. But the 58-year-old singer revealed she only applied to be a contestant after finding an unsent letter her mum wrote to Simon Cowell before she died. Sue said she had begged Margaret, who had Alzheimer’s, not to post the note as she was planning to abandon music. She added: “After 40 years of trying for a break, I came to the decision I wouldn’t sing any more. The next day I found a letter my mother had written to Simon. I said: ‘I’ll be mortified if you send it.’“Sue did not read the letter but after Margaret’s death in 2013 she did and that inspired her to apply. It read: “My daughter has a great voice, I’d like you to hear it – I’m 80 and it would make my life.” Sue, of Clayton-lemoors, Lancs, added: “That was the point I thought, you know what Mum, I’m going to have a go.” And, judging by the dancing, she has done the right thing.

Dear Simon, My daughter has a great voice, I’d like you to hear it – I’m 80 and it would make my life... PLEA Late mother’s letter to Cowell inspired Sue to apply for the show

MOVING Sue on the show and, inset, with Margaret