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Britain’s Got Talent legend hasn’t aged a day as he wows fans on BBC Breakfast 17 years on from TV debut
The show's first ever winner is still going strong and is back with a new tour.
A BRITAIN'S Got Talent legend hasn't aged a day as he wows fans on BBC Breakfast - 17 years on from TV debut.
Tuesday's show saw Sally Nugent host alongside Ben Thompson, who was standing in for an absent Jon Kay.
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The duo were joined in the studio by Paul Potts, who was the first ever winner of Britain's Got Talent back in 2007.
Paul's audition has gone down in pop culture history and since winning the show, he has released six albums and had a film made about his life.
Now Paul is heading back out on tour and spoke to Sally and Ben about it as well as his big break all those years ago.
When Ben asked how he felt about seeing the audition clip, Paul joked: "It makes me feel old, and my wife tells for the first time in more than 20 years of marriage I'm right."
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He then recalled how he almost didn't enter the ITV competition, saying: "I flipped a coin because I'd filled in the application form and I caught my reflection in the laptop and thought 'why would anyone choose you? you do the wrong kind of music, you're too old - I was in my mid-30s then God knows what would happen now - and you've got such a great face for radio, why would they choose you?'
"It was the night before the entries shut and so I flipped a coin and if it landed on heads I'll enter if lands on tails I won't and thankfully it did land on heads."
As Paul spoke, he looked like he had barely aged since the audition - aside from a little bit of grey around the front of his hairline.
Paul had sang opera classic Nessun dorma at his audition and he said: "I thought I'd failed as I had too much tension at the end and the note cracked a bit.
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"I thought 'Oh God I've messed it up' as that's the note everyone's waiting for but it turned out to be the crossroads of my life."
Last year, Paul opened up to The Sun about how things work backstage at BGT.
Watch the moment Paul Potts wins Britain’s Got Talent and performs for the judges a final time
He said: "Acts have discussions with the producers, and they will guide you [picking a song and the type of performance] because often you aren’t armed to make that decision.
“The producers have got to build the shape of the show – it’s an entertainment show as well as a competition. You might not always get your way."
Britain's Got Talent winners
The ITV show started back in 2007 and here is who has won the competition so far.
2007 - Paul Potts
2008 - George Sampson
2009 - Diversity
2010 - Spellbound
2011 - Jai McDowall
2012 - Ashleigh and Pudsey
2013 - Attraction
2014 - Collabro
2015 - Jules O'Dwyer and Matisse
2016 - Richard Jones
2017 - Tokio Myers
2018 - Lost Voice Guy
2019 - Colin Thackery
2020 - Jon Courtenay
2022 - Axel Blake
2023 - Viggo Venn
BBC Breakfast airs daily from 6am on BBC One.
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