Toby dreaming of making Britain’s Got Talent live final
Young singer Toby McTurk is still in with a shout of making the live final of Britain’s Got Talent.
Toby, who goes to Scarborough College, and his friends from the band Made Up North are due to perform in the semi-finals this week, in a bid to gain a place in Sunday’s finale.
The youngsters got four yes votes from the judges at their initial audition in Manchester,wheretheysangElectricity by Elton John.
On last Saturday’s show, millions of viewers saw the band head to London, where they discovered they had been given one of the coveted 40 spots in this week’s semifinals, which began on Monday evening on ITV.
They were not in the lineup for the first three semi-finals, before the Scarborough News went to print, and will appear on the show, hosted by Declan Donnelly, tonight or tomorrow.
Eleven-year-old Toby lives in Bridlington, but goes to Scarborough College, and started performing with the Collette Tyler School.
A singing teacher introduced him to Oscar, from Colne in Lancashire, Harry from Nottingham, Felix from Barnsley, and Max from Darlington – and they formed Made Up North.
Toby’s mum Lianne said: “He likes such a variety of music.
“The boys all want to be like One Direction but he loves musical theatre, and anything from ABBA to whatever is in the charts.”