No way she's going through now

She didn't get through!

Good.

Awww she's going home!

Oh no, she's not through , anyone else think she looked shocked not to be through?

I don't think its a happy matter TBH with you

Omg, I don't think people know about the lack of opportunity in the Philippines. You can get a degree in law or medicine there and still not get a job. Educated people go in thousands to Hong Kong and all over the world to work 20 hours a day as maids because they make far more abroad on less than minimum wage (US$50 a month) than they would at home, just to make enough for their families, and that's not just their children, their extended families too. This isn't a superficial generalisation, this happens. Foreign domestic workers make a substantial contribution to the Philippine economy. Go and get another job? Please, given the cost of living in the UK, she's probably already doing everything she can already. She's had to leave the Philippines and her children to give them a chance in school, in life.

I don't care for her singing, I don't know her personal circumstances, but if she's anything like the thousands of stories of Filipino stories out there then people shouldn't be so harsh about her 'sob story' because the whole situation is more tragic than anyone else's on the show. The rest of the contestants can go back to their jobs, go to uni, or go on the dole and, live quite happily in comparison.

Rant over. I'm not Filipino, but as someone who grew up in Hong Kong and around a lot of Filipinos who work bloody hard, not for themselves but for their families, it makes me mad that people presume that she's doing it for the glory, when it's probably as much desperation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/6194333.stm
Last edited by sk2007 : 30-05-2008 at 22:41

Exactly SK...

Nothing would make me happier than being reunited with my children after such a long time - unless I wanted to carry on living my own dream that is...........

She wants a better life for her children..Isn't that what any mother wants?

so glad people saw sense had she sung even okay fair enough but tonight she was awful the scale was all over the place and final straw the picture of her children
ITV still havent got it Sob stories DONT cut it anymore.

She seems gratious enough to me.

I like her and i hope she and her kids make it through.

No, she wants to be recognised as a singer - not the same. And yes, things may be bad for some people in parts of the phillipines but you can say the same of any country - even britain with the current credit crunch going on. It has been reported recently that even middle class families are really struggling to make ends meet here.

Still wouldn't leave my kids for something which, lets face it is a passion and hobby of hers. Its not like she gone off to do manual labour is it?

I actually meant it as she's gone out.
If you want to put it like that then, if she lives in the Philippines what the hell is she doing on Britains Got Talent?
To me, that translates into people who live in Britain.

Well said.

Its not her i didn't like, its her sob story and when they flashed up on the screen, it changed her act from singing to being the best cryer in the country! I'm glad Simon was straight with her.

Absa-friggin-lutely.

She was cr*p, and the sob story didn't justify her lack of talent.

It's obvious some of you don't understand and you dislike her all I'm saying is...I know what she's going through, Sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the ones you love! Natalie how would you know you couldn't leave your kids? No-one knows what the future holds...Life can throw some shit at you and you have to make decisions some bad some right..It all boils down to the fact you do whats right for you and your family! there and then! Of course there will be consquences of your actions, but with Madonna she's trying to get her kids over here it's not like shes just gone and left them. She wants them with her more than anything but she doesn't have the money...Yes shes following her dream but think about it...If she gets enough money she'll be able to give her Little ones a decent life....

When they did the 'talking' bit of her before her performance, she said something like 'I don't want to be seen like I'm begging' (can't remember exactly what she said).

But when that picture of her kids came up on that huge screen, I felt that it was exactly like begging, or some sort of emotional 'blackmail' (for want of a better word) to the audience and viewers. All it did for me, was make me want to not vote for her even more!

Dont you think they will be missing you by now?

I don't care if she came from outer space...she was cr*p. She couldn't hold her notes and she can't sing in English either. Did her 'story' move me....no more than Craigs, Per Deim or any of the others who so desperately wanted to do well.

I think the child protection authorities will want to speak to her when she gets home

No it's not the same. You can't make the comparison to the UK. Even with the crap that's going on with the economy, and however much people can't stand the government, the UK, people here are looked after in the end. You can go bankrupt, but live off the dole and child tax credits, stay in council houses, and still be able to send you kids to Cambridge for free (well, pay later). You're pretty much protected from absolute poverty here. If you're talented enough you can break out.

The Philippine economy has been growing, but it's so reliant on the US it's going to be hit as hard as as anyone. It's billions of dollars in debt and can't afford to look after it's people. It's absolutely reliant on it skilled workers going abroad to make money. If you've got your people making minimum wage abroad to prop up your economy, you have to acknowledge it's pretty bad. They just want to ensure their kids break out of the vicious circle of poverty,

Like I said in another thread, she's not British and the show is BRITAINs Got Talent.

What????