The bookies reckon Britain’s Got Talent fans may have already seen this year’s winner after little Chloe Hickinbottom’s opening night performance.
The 10-year-old’s rousing version of Dame Vera Lynn’s White Cliffs of Dover has made her 7-1 favourite – ahead of drummer Kieran Gaffney, who is 10-1, and dancing dog Chandi, who is an outsider at 33-1.
And the bookmakers say Chloe’s tears after getting voted may help her win. David Williams of Ladbrokes said: “Chloe has all the ingredients to go all the way.
“It’s always encouraging when there are tears so early in the series. Punters love it when the heart-strings are pulled.”
Chloe, of Wolverhampton, revealed after her star turn: “I wouldn’t even sing in front of my family, they’d only hear me through my bedroom door and think it was a CD.”
Drummer Kieran, 13, only got through to the next stage of the competition after ditching his parents’ band and going solo. But the schoolboy, of Deal, Kent, said: “If it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t be here.”
More than 12 million people saw Saturday’s show, a record and more than tuned in for the leaders’ debate. Judge Piers Morgan joked: “I’m pleased we are marginally more popular than Brown, Cameron and Clegg. Losing a ratings war to them would have been a disaster.”
P.S - What a name! Chloe
Hickinbottom!!!!