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Old 29-05-2016, 08:04
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Pretty awful wasn't it.

Ashleigh and Pudsey seemed to be the only break in males dancing, drumming, singing performing magic. The shadow group had some females in it but were stuck behind the screen.

The ratio of 1 female to 50 men is not representative of talent in Britain.
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Old 29-05-2016, 08:07
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How representative is it of the acts you can remember from BGT though.
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Old 29-05-2016, 08:14
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Pretty awful wasn't it.

Ashleigh and Pudsey seemed to be the only break in males dancing, drumming, singing performing magic. The shadow group had some females in it but were stuck behind the screen.

The ratio of 1 female to 50 men is not representative of talent in Britain.
Well, to be fair, Ashleigh's the only (featured) lady to have won it isn't she?
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Old 29-05-2016, 08:28
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The papers say producers excluded Susan Boyle but I know some people were hoping to see one of the young girl singers now older.

I personally would recall Escala over that drummer.

Jonathan and Charlotte came second, easy way to get another female onto the stage if they had wanted to.
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Old 29-05-2016, 09:19
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I'm sure they could have got Connie Talbot, or the Cheeky Monkeys from series one if they'd wanted to - or I'm sure Hollie Steels mum would have been delighted to have got a call on Hollies behalf......

It was pretty good to see how much Lagi (Stavros Flatley) has grown up, and I'd have liked to see some of the other young acts (the young lad who was runner up to Jai) on there too .
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Old 29-05-2016, 11:27
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Britain's Got Talent voters don't like women. Look at their appalling track record on the show.

If you look at the final 3 of every series, 22 have been male, 2 have been mixed and a whopping 4 have been female ( 2 of which were male dog acts).

Britain's Got No Female Talent apparently.
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Old 29-05-2016, 11:30
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Pretty awful wasn't it.

Ashleigh and Pudsey seemed to be the only break in males dancing, drumming, singing performing magic. The shadow group had some females in it but were stuck behind the screen.

The ratio of 1 female to 50 men is not representative of talent in Britain.
Quite representative of who has had most success on BGT though unfortunately.
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Old 29-05-2016, 11:46
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The papers say producers excluded Susan Boyle but I know some people were hoping to see one of the young girl singers now older.

I personally would recall Escala over that drummer.

Jonathan and Charlotte came second, easy way to get another female onto the stage if they had wanted to.
Maybe availability was the problem. Some of the acts will have been unavailable due to their performance schedules (Paul Potts, for example, performs concerts all over the world now). Some no longer perform their acts (Jonathan and Charlotte went their separate ways careerwise and no longer perform together), and it would appear that ill-health was a factor with at least one performer (Susan Boyle).

It would have been interesting to see those 'no-shows' I've mentioned above, along with Connie Talbot and Hollie Steele, also Lettice with her violin. However, the group performance we did get was great - Ashley Banjo did a great job with the choreography!

With so many acts having been in the semi-finals and finals over the past 10 series of BGT, there would always have been people saying "Why wasn't so-and-so included?" It's the nature of these things.
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Old 29-05-2016, 12:21
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The person choosing the acts clearly likes guys and if the dog could perform on his own he probably would have.

It has nothing to do with availability, Paul Potts is the only one busy on the other side of the world and he's not female.

Any female act still performing would jump at the opportunity to be on that stage and any with agents would move mountains if they got invited to get the exposure infront of millions of viewers.
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Old 29-05-2016, 14:04
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According to sexism groups all men & women are equal.. so why does it matter how many men or women are there.. or maybe you`re some kind of sexist
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Old 29-05-2016, 14:11
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Britain's Got Talent voters don't like women. Look at their appalling track record on the show.

If you look at the final 3 of every series, 22 have been male, 2 have been mixed and a whopping 4 have been female ( 2 of which were male dog acts).

Britain's Got No Female Talent apparently.
It is interesting isn't it and a bit odd really, any theories as to why this would be the case?
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Old 29-05-2016, 14:13
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The vast majority of people who actually vote are women. And women generally won't vote for other women.

Basically, women are bitches
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Old 29-05-2016, 14:24
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Pretty awful wasn't it..
No, you're just reading too much into it. There was no agenda here, it's not like they set out to not include women.

This is just another case where people are looking to be offended.
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Old 29-05-2016, 14:37
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The vast majority of people who actually vote are women. And women generally won't vote for other women.

Basically, women are bitches

Speaking as a woman.......I would agree that some women are bitches.

But I would also add that most men are c---s.
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Old 29-05-2016, 15:26
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The person choosing the acts clearly likes guys and if the dog could perform on his own he probably would have.

It has nothing to do with availability, Paul Potts is the only one busy on the other side of the world and he's not female.

Any female act still performing would jump at the opportunity to be on that stage and any with agents would move mountains if they got invited to get the exposure infront of millions of viewers.
You're assuming that sexism is the reason behind the lack of females. There's no definitive proof that this was the case, and I'd be very surprised if it was!
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Old 29-05-2016, 15:30
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How come there has to be some PC picking at absolutely everything these days?

Why can you not just enjoy something for what it is?

I'm a woman, I watched and thought wow, that was great. Ashley Banjo is a super talented bloke, well done everyone.

Not once did I think to myself, this is wrong! There's no women!

Why does everything have to be picked apart by the PC brigade?
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Old 29-05-2016, 15:33
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Thinking back at BGT acts there are not a lot of good female acts anyway. The only ones that tended to get through were singers and singers are boring.
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Old 29-05-2016, 18:24
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Pretty awful wasn't it.

Ashleigh and Pudsey seemed to be the only break in males dancing, drumming, singing performing magic. The shadow group had some females in it but were stuck behind the screen.

The ratio of 1 female to 50 men is not representative of talent in Britain.
I was very surprised that Susan Boyle wasn't there because she definitely is worth being in the 10 years celebration performance. Unless she was either working or ill.
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Old 29-05-2016, 18:40
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there was nothing to shout about
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Old 30-05-2016, 09:16
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Why does everything have to be picked apart by the PC brigade?
There's no such thing as the 'PC Brigade'.
I agree with you though that this should be enjoyed for what it was - a superb festival of 10 years of talent
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Old 30-05-2016, 12:15
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It is interesting isn't it and a bit odd really, any theories as to why this would be the case?
The truth is that women haven't made a big impact on the show beyond some interesting auditions. I don't know why this is but they really haven't. Excluding SuBo name a woman who embodies BGT? I'd argue the young girls have done better. We still talk about Connie, Hollie Steel and Faryl Smith. We'll probably talk about Beau and may be Jasmine in future. But we won't be talking about any of this year's women singers.

Edit: There's an opportunity there though. If a new woman can really crack the show and win she could be as big as SuBo.
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Old 05-06-2016, 01:46
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I did notice this as well, although I generally enjoyed it it did seem an odd choice by the production staff to only pick one act with a woman in it! Given that they were picking memorable acts from the show's whole history.

I too was expecting Escala to show up - one of the most memorable acts for me, or Susan Boyle. I didn't recognise the male singers at the end.

EDIT: As the comment above me mentions, I don't recall that many female acts by name - but I don't recall that many acts by name in general. The only two that spring to mind are the singing grandfather and granddaughter, and the awful piano teacher lady who pulled manic faces and danced while playing the keyboard. I only remember her because she was so bad and somehow got to a final!
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