7:00am Tuesday 10th November 2009
By Louise Dunderdale
YOU could have heard a pin drop, singer Anthony Hughes said of his winning performance at the grand final of this year’s Talentcall competition.
The audience’s silence while he sang Kiss the Air by Scott Allen was only broken at the end by rapturous applause from an audience of over 1,200 people.
Anthony, 17, a student at St Peter’s School, said he didn’t expect to beat the 19 other finalists, at the Pavilion Theatre in Bournemouth.
“Afterwards everyone was just screaming.
“I didn’t expect it.
“I came out of the stage door afterwards and there was 100 people there!” he said.
He said he nearly didn’t enter the contest as he felt he was too busy doing other things, but was now glad he had.
“I went along to the auditions and everyone was really talented. I just took it from there.”
Anthony, of Iford, is studying for an A-level in dance and a BTEC in performing arts. He has attended Swish of the Curtain drama school in Bournemouth since he was 13.
He will put the £2,500 win to-wards tuition fees as he wants to pursue further training and a career in the theatre.
Anthony said his family, mum Debbie, dad Terry and brother and sister Ryan, 14, and Alicia seven, were very proud.
He applied to go on this series of X Factor but did not get beyond round four.
He said he felt the choices were being made more for entertainment than talent, and would not be keen to have a Simon Cowell sculpted career.
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