The Final: Susan Boyle Performs "I Dreamed a Dreamed" even better than last time, but gets 2nd place! DIVERSITY wins! (Videos)

Yes she was :-)

Wow updated and she got 2nd. I thought for sure she would win...

She looked so nervous up there...

Speaking as an American, Susan Boyle has talent that will last in the years to come. The act Diversity , was good how long can their fame last, and how long will they be remembered?

Your Queen deserves to hear a class act. Just to sum it up, we were right to throw the British out of America, and then we came in to save your country from two World Wars! America will again do the noble and right thing, save Susan Boyle from the likes of the Brits!

I thought Diversity were slightly better :-/ shame my act didn't make the top 3 lol.

and @ stop trying to rile people.

Jamie, we are the Bad Boyz of the American Revolution. So we know a thing or two about the underdog becoming a champion. I think that is what Maria is trying to state in her comment above yours. Maria isn't riling anyone, just sharing an opinion like anyone on the Newsvine.

Anyhow, I'm glad you thought Diversity was better. I think Susan Boyle was great and will have an outstanding career.

I don't watch American Idol. But I did watch videos of the final 2 performing, and it is obvious that the kids of America picked the guy who looked the most similar to themselves to win. There is no other explanation.

I couldn't watch Britain's Got Talent, because it didn't air in America. But I did watch videos of Susan and Diversity in the finals. Again, it is obvious that the kids of Britain picked the people who loooked most like themselves to win. There is no other explanation.

That's the way it is. Always has been. Always will be.

How does Britian's got talent work? Is it off of votes like American Idol? Do the judges pick?

Five semi-finals of eight acts: two go through to the final in each. Top act on the public vote goes through automatically and the judges choose another from those in 2nd and 3rd place.

The final therefore has 10 acts, and it's then decided entirely on the public vote.

Five semi-finals of eight acts: two go through to the final in each. Top act on the public vote goes through automatically and the judges choose another from those in 2nd and 3rd place.

The final therefore has 10 acts, and it's then decided entirely on the public vote.

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Thanks Rob...

No - it's phone votes only, for about 10 minutes in each semi-final and an hour-and-a-bit for the final itself.

Yep, it's 50p a vote, 15p of which goes to the "Royal Variety Charity", apparently.

Here in America we can text vote or call in our votes for a fee. I think it's $2.00, not sure. Anyone know how much it cost to vote for Americas Got Talent? I love that show!

A little sense of humor doesn't hurt, but with a little coaching and some stage directions I think she'll be fine in the future. Hopefully, she hires a good management company that will take good care of her and not exploit her.

I'm British... I voted for Diversity based on their act, not because I was too 'proper' for Susan's booty. ;)

They sucked, just like the brits, diversity is just another stupid dance group that is so-so. They did not deserve the win. I doubt very much if the show was in america, that the dance??? group would have won. I'm hafl British, but right now I'm not proud of it, glad I live in US where we know what real talent is.

They sucked, just like the brits, diversity is just another stupid dance group that is so-so. They did not deserve the win. I doubt very much if the show was in america, that the dance??? group would have won. I'm hafl British, but right now I'm not proud of it, glad I live in US where we know what real talent is.

Jack, I think Susan Boyle is terrific and her career should exceed anything that happens to Diversity. However, we in America recently had our own shake-up on American Idol. I'm not a fan but looked at a YouTube with both finalists. NO WAY should the person who won have beaten Adam Lambert. Lambert has a real career ahead of him, unlike Kris Whats-His-Name, who will fade into obscurity like Taylor Hicks did.

I totally agree with you. Susan Boyle is a beautiful singer, and I can't imagine the queen loking forward to a bunch of "dancers" jumping around the floor. She should have won and I am so disappointed in the brits.

You realise Susan Boyle has had singing training from professionals prior to BGT? She's a decent singer but not spectacular, her semi-final performance was pretty poor by anyone's standards.

The level of talent required for Diversity's act far exceeds that which Susan Boyle posesses. Look at the choreography, the athleticism, the creativity and the dedication it takes for these individuals (who all have jobs or are studying) to perfect an act this complex.

It was no contest, Diversity were the best and Susan Boyle was a very distant second (in my opinion she didn't even give the best vocal performance of the night, that would go to the young lad Shaheen).

The public have spoken and they were 100% correct.

It's true that in the UK the press have been after her for some ridiculous reasons, and that's definitely been unfair. I was amazed by her first audition, and feel really sorry for her having to deal with everything the newspapers have thrown at her. That said, Susan doesn't have the best voice ever, nor is she the least attractive person ever, which I think are the two reasons the whole story's gone global in the first place. Personally I thought Diversity were better dancers than Susan was a singer, although I'm sure we haven't heard the last of either.

Agree %100. I think I knew that the Brits would do something stupid like vote for a dance group that have no talent.

We didn't, though. We did something like vote for a dance group that have talent, and surprise and entertain us with each performance, rather than redoing exactly what they did in their audition but without the shock value.

Rob -

I like your answers. No name-calling, no petulance, no defensiveness in response to comments that could easily draw such responses - just polite, confident, matter-of-fact responses. Well done.

Thanks! I'm actually quite surprised at some of the stuff that's been said about us Brits in general based on the way we have (or haven't) voted. I'm 17 and I like Diversity. It's not a crime.

To be perfectly honest, at the end of the day it's a TV show - much as I love Britain's Got Talent, everyone will have forgotten it in a week. I honestly wonder how many people from overseas who claim to have a balanced opinion on the show will make the effort to catch up with it when series 4 arrives next year. Susan Boyle won't be in it, that's for sure...

Rob is right. Susan Boyle was media hype in Britain, actually the Americans like her better.

Diversity showed their talent from the first audition, all three performances were unique. The dance they choreographed was intelligent and perfect, this isn't easy to do for three seperate dances. I applaud heartily the culture of dance here in Britain that has grabbed the youth. Britian is dancing and it is fantastic.

These kids range in age from 12-25, the older ones have day jobs while the younger ones are in school and they deserved to win. I'm very proud they will dance before the Queen and I think she will love them as they represent so much about the culture of Britian. Glad I voted for them from beginning of the semi's. Susan Boyle wasn't the talk on the street at all except by the media, everyone I knew was talking about Diversity. While Flawless were Flawless and expected to walk away with it after the audition show, it was Diversity that came along with an intelligent routine incorporating themes and core talent into the dance. Truly amazing and as Susan Boyle said, they deserved to win, everyone knew it.

I agree with you ASoutherner.

Between singing acts and dancing acts, how many of you can name dancing acts that are famous? I can think of NONE. As for singing acts there are thousands and thousands out there and we all listen to them and buy their music.

How many dancing shows have any of you been too? How many dancing DVD's have you bought?

snowflake -

Alvin Ailey, Riverdance, Joffrey Ballet Company, the various other famous ballet companies (Bolshoi, American, etc.). But I see what you're saying.

However, as someone else on this thread also said - it's possible that each member of Diversity can go on to individual accomplishment as a dancer or choreographer given this start as the member of an ensemble. I can immediately recall several famous individual dancers and choreographers, such as Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly, Twyla Tharp, Isadora Duncan, George Balanchine, Bob Fosse - and I'm an old, curmudgeony engineer who favors opera over ballet. I'm sure someone who is more familiar with dance can name many more.

Look at the continuing popularity of movies focused on dance and dancers - from Fame and Flashdance - through Footloose and Dirty Dancing - to the currently popular High School Musicals.

I look at Saturday's result as many folks 'winning' rather than just one. I believe Susan Boyle has accomplished more than she expected - and will go on to be very successful if she can handle the success. Of course, everyone wants to come in as "No. 1" - but I look at the whole 1st, 2nd, 3rd business as a simple ranking of the 'winners' in this particular contest on that particular night. If losers must be identified - look, perhaps, to the folks who failed the first audition - not the folks that made it to the final competition.

I have to add that I much prefer the original performance of this song, it was full of energy, enthusiam, and a remarkable lack of pretence in its presentation (it was "natural"). IMO, none of those particulars were as evident this time. I wish she had chosen another musical piece (perhaps something similarly inspiring, like the theme song from "The Sound of Music..."

The hills are alive
With the sound of music
With songs they have sung
For a thousand years

The hills fill my heart
With the sound of music
My heart wants to sing ev'ry song it hears

My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise
From the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
From a church on a breeze

To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls
Over stones on its way
To sing through the night
Like a lark who is learning to prey

I go to the hills
When my heart is lonely
I know I will hear
What I've heard before

My heart will be blessed
With the sound of music
And I'll sing once more

you'll have to admit... that is definitely a more "Susan-Boylish" type of song (something that befits her voice and style). Had those words come from her mouth (especially in light of all the negative press of the last week of competition), I believe the stars would have continued to shine on her with favor!

Perhaps - but do you think that would have lost some of its 'umph' since Hollie Steel sang 'Edelweiss"? Perhaps some other Andrew Lloyd Webber tune since that seems to be her forte? "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from Evita, maybe?

I saw it. Are you in the UK too?

Being in the U.S., I did not get to watch it live, but sat on the website all day as performances were updated. So I have seen them all.

Frankly, I was disappointed by the singers that same the same song as they did for the original audition. Personally, I wanted something new. If that one song is your best? Blah.

My biggest disappointment in the series is that Jamie Pugh did not do better the second time. I was really rooting for him.

I saw it on their website. I am in the US. They are good, but it's hard to compare the two. Apples and oranges.

Diversity was very good. But Susan was exceptional.

Maybe Susan should have thrown in a bit of break dancin' to lock in the vote. But again, I think this is another example of how the young vote is strong in most of these competition shows.

Yes, I'm in the UK too.

I'm not that surprised by the attitude of some of the posters here because the way you've been the fed the story by the rather patronising American media is that it's all about Susan Boyle.

Frankly, if anyone is to blame for her not winning it's the Yanks, not the Brits. We liked her until the hype kicked in - and then the inevitable backlash followed. I don't think Susan handled it well at all - she came across terribly in interviews after her semi-final and rather cocky and arrogant too, although seemed a lot more humble tonight.

It was absolutely disgusting though she was the only one on that stage not clapping each act as they were introduced for the results though, and her consolation speech came across as saying what she thought she should say, rather than what she felt.

Brekkie -

I'm not sure I follow what you're saying. Are you saying that after Boyle's first performance the Brits reacted in a 'typical' British, understated, reserved way. But then the Yanks kicked in the 'hype machine' - which somehow was picked up by the British (who resent our 'hype' machine as the bellwether of their existence) and caused a British backlash against one of their own?

I think ITV have totally missed a trick in not selling BGT to other countries - especially with all the interest it's got this year, and since they show both American Idol and America's Got Talent.

A show as diverse as BGT is always going to divide opinion - take Hollie Steel being in the final. After what happened in her semi on Friday - - everyone was torn between voting on sympathy, voting her out to be kind, and even banning child acts altogether. In addition, the other acts in the final all have massive support, so it's never going to be as clear-cut as people make out, and any result was going to be controversial.

I'm not saying Susan isn't talented - my jaw almost hit the floor when I saw her audition in the first show, and I know I must have watched it back about 30 times on YouTube. But she isn't the best singer. Between her and Leona Lewis, who won The X Factor, there's just no competition.

The media over here haven't helped her and have torn her to pieces in the last week for a whole number of reasons, most of them ridiculous and fabricated. But overseas, thanks to the fact that YouTube's the only real way to watch the shows, people haven't got the whole picture either. I'd bet that half the people on this forum believe that, having watched Susan's audition, she was better than all other auditionees.

This isn't true, so unless people have made the effort to watch clips on the BGT website, they're hearing Susan and thinking she has to win, regardless of the competition. Tonight's final was the most open it's ever been. At the end of the day, the Brits are the only people who have a totally balanced view of who's good and who isn't; who's entertained them and who hasn't. At the end of the day, I'm not insulted by anyone implying we're stupid because of the result, because we aren't - Susan isn't going anywhere with Simon as a judge. And at the end of the day, we've decided - rightly, in my opinion - that Diversity represent dance better than Susan represents singing.

Rant over. :D

What a bummer. I suppose the Brits have never seen cheerleading dance troops. We see this thing all the time in American and usually bring a ho hum, and they are much better than Diversity. Nothing special about this routine, nothing unusual, just normal, but certainly not a winner!!

I watched the Diversity act on Youtube before I watched Susan Boyle's act. I didn't last 2 minutes into the dancers, but Boyle again moved me to tears. A friend in England emailed me that she had been unable to get through to vote for Susan, and that people there are saying that so many Americans were trying (and not being allowed) to vote for Susan that it made it harder than it normally is for people in Great Britain to get through on her line. Wouldn't it be awful if American fans DID cause her to lose!!

Patrick, I was waiting for someone to compare cheerleading to the street dance. While it could be an easy transformation to make, it is far from the truth. You don't understand the British culture and it can't be compared to America in any way. What these kids did should hold merit on their own and not be compared to cheerleaders in the US. While the cheerleading competitions in the US hold their own sets of standards and rules, the dance culture of Britain incorporates many different forms of dance.

Cheerleaders go to school and cheerleaders focus only on cheerleading and they are very much done after HS or College. This dance group is from 12-25, they have day jobs too. They choreographed this by themselves. They are showing a diverse form of dance, this is far removed from the American form of Cheerleading.

Though she is a Very Great Singer, she did a great job, but her performance wasn't as good as her first one, you could feel a slight nervousness in her voice an body and when she hit the word living, it just didn't come out as it did the first time, in her first performance was more relaxed and she sang and felt the words inside her.

Actually her coming in 2nd I think will be a lot better for her, as seen with the added pressure on her after her first performance she was having a bit of a hard time. I think this will help relieve some of the stress for her.

She didn't miss her dream, that is what really matters, her dream was have a singing career, she will most definitely have a great one now.

She has a great attitude an was very gracious in reconizing Diversity as the winner and acknowledging them as such. She is the Ultimate winner in this competition.

Dreams Really Do Come True

WTG Susan, I am a big fan.

Diversity was absolutely great and has a lot of talent. Congratulations

Most of the people making such off the cuff remarks about the dancers obviously know nothing about the theatre or the performing arts.

Each member of that dance troupe (I'm sure) hope to go on to bigger and better things ~ now that they have won, most of them stand a pretty fair chance of doing so. The vast majority of productions currently in theatres just happen to be Musical productions (both in the UK and in the States; and have been in the majority for decades)!

The sheer devotion, concentration, energy, drive, vitality, and most certainly the "PRECISION" involved in carrying off a dance act is immense! I applaud Diversity for their win and wish each member continued success ! ! ! True dedication does occasionally pay-off!