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'''Hollie Steel''' is a 10 year-old schoolgirl and performer from [[Huncoat|Huncoat, Lancashire]], [[England]].<ref name=TiL>{{citation|url= http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/4339569.Britain_s_Got_Talent_star_Hollie_supported_all_the_way_by_her_big_brother/ |publisher=This is Lancashire|title=Britain's Got Talent star Hollie supported all the way by her big brother|date=3rd May 2009}}</ref> As of May 2009 she is a finalist on the [[ITV]] reality show ''[[Britain's Got Talent]]''.<ref name=Mail>{{citation|url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1173561/How-Britains-Got-Talents-little-star-lost-lung.html|title=How Britain's Got Talent's little star almost lost a lung|publisher=Daily Mail|author=James Tapper|date=26 April 2009}}</ref> |
'''Hollie Steel''' is a 10 year-old schoolgirl and performer from [[Huncoat|Huncoat, Lancashire]], [[England]].<ref name=TiL>{{citation|url= http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/4339569.Britain_s_Got_Talent_star_Hollie_supported_all_the_way_by_her_big_brother/ |publisher=This is Lancashire|title=Britain's Got Talent star Hollie supported all the way by her big brother|date=3rd May 2009}}</ref> As of May 2009 she is a finalist on the [[ITV]] reality show ''[[Britain's Got Talent (series 3)|Britain's Got Talent]]''.<ref name=Mail>{{citation|url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1173561/How-Britains-Got-Talents-little-star-lost-lung.html|title=How Britain's Got Talent's little star almost lost a lung|publisher=Daily Mail|author=James Tapper|date=26 April 2009}}</ref> |
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Hollie Steel is a 10 year-old schoolgirl and performer from Huncoat, Lancashire, England.[1] As of May 2009 she is a finalist on the ITV reality show Britain's Got Talent.[2]
Early life and career
Steel had serious pneumonia when she was four years old; fluid filled one of her lungs and surgeons considered removing the lung.[2] She was instead hospitalized for three months at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and underwent several operations to drain her lungs.[2]
Steel has been singing since the age of six when she showed interest in her brother's performances.[1] She also attends the KLF Dance Academy in Burnley with him.[1] Prior to Britain's Got Talent she performed in shows of Annie and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.[2]
Steel's parents, Nina and Jason, who work as National Health Service audiologists, said that Hollie was entered in Britain's Got Talent so she would not feel left out as they felt her older brother, Joshua, was more likely to progress.[1][3]
Britain's Got Talent
Steel first auditioned for Britain's Got Talent in April 2009 and for her first televised appearance began her number ballet dancing to "I Could Have Danced All Night" from the musical My Fair Lady, then, as judge Simon Cowell started to reach for the red rejection buzzer, she began singing the song with an unexpectedly powerful voice. She received a standing ovation from the audience and the approval of all four judges. Judge Piers Morgan told Steel, "We have seen a lot of children on our show over the past three series and I have never heard any of them sing as well as you do".[2] Judge Kelly Brook was in tears and called her performance, "beautiful and lovely". Steel compared the critical comments made by Cowell to her own experience of being bullied at Oakhill College.[4]
Commentators and mainstream media outlets have since speculated that she might defeat Susan Boyle, who made an impression worldwide in the first show of the series.[5][6] Over thirteen million viewers watched Steel's performance and, within one day of a video of her performance being posted on YouTube, over a million viewers had seen her worldwide. She was interviewed on US television via satellite link during NBC's Today show.[7]
During her second appearance in Britain's Got Talent in May, she succumbed to nerves, forgetting her words, and breaking down mid-performance. After tearfully appealing for a second chance, but being denied by the producers, Simon Cowell intervened saying, "I don't care how we do it but we will find the time somewhere to let you audition again", and she was allowed to perform for an unprecedented second time.[8] Her second attempt at "Edelweiss" went well and was praised by the judges for being accomplished and brave in the trying circumstances. Piers Morgan described it as "one of the gutsiest things I've ever seen in my life" and Hollie was chosen by all three judges to progress to the final in preference to Greg Pritchard.[9]
References
- ^ a b c d Britain's Got Talent star Hollie supported all the way by her big brother, This is Lancashire, 3rd May 2009
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c d e James Tapper (26 April 2009), How Britain's Got Talent's little star almost lost a lung, Daily Mail
- ^ Ian Johnston (27 April 2009), Hollie Steel's older brother was meant to be Britain's Got Talent star, Daily Telegraph
- ^ Lara Gould (25 April 2009), Taunted at school Hollie Steel, 10, hits back at Simon Cowell calling him a 'bully', Daily Mirror
- ^ Can 10-year-old singer Hollie Steel unseat new-look Susan Boyle as the favourite on Britain's Got Talent?, Daily Mail, 25 April 2009
- ^ Patrick Foster (24 April 2009), Steel, 10, stands in Susan Boyle's way to be Britain's Got Talent winner, The Times
- ^ "Britain's Got Talent sensation Hollie Steel is wowing audiences across the Atlantic — after appearing on TV in the US". The Sun. 28 April 2009.
- ^ "Hollie forgets song but gets 2nd chance". The Sun. 29 April 2009.
- ^ Liz Thomas and Diana Pilkington (30th May 2009), Hollie Steel wins a place in the final after breaking down on stage on Britain's Got Talent, Daily Mail
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