I strolled into school on a Monday morning with an ample amount of swag and a gangster lean when my friends asked me; “Did you see that girl on Britain’s got Talent?” “Did you see what Jessie J was wearing on The Voice?”

I coolly replied; “No, I didn’t, I had better things to do”… I didn’t really have better things to do, but I found something better to do, I can’t sit in front of a television and watch some drivel that dictates peoples dreams and their career paths by a bunch of has beens and never will bes.

I honestly find it hard to believe that approximately 9.5 million people each week sit in front of their televisions watching ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ and ‘The Voice’, I really do, as I believe they are such lame shows.

Everyone is always very repetitive with the same old thing occurring on an annual basis; a hand full of ‘talented’ people with the odd one or two who are cruelly tormented by the judges and those at home.

The cruel, yet critical judge’s opinion is one reason why I cannot stand these television shows, yet this is also the reason why the nation loves them. Arguably, people like watching of other people’s pain and embarrassment.

We live by the motto ‘No pain, No gain’… but is this really the way to live? No, it is not, according to my watch (It’s a Swatch… A Cartier or Chopard watch will suffice though!) We laugh when there’s a bad singer. We make jibes when someone isn’t aesthetically pleasing. And most devastatingly, laugh when someone has their dreams crumbled.

Unfortunately, I found myself watching Britain’s Got Talent on a Saturday night after work, and I observed the people I was watching it with. I must say, I found it quite shocking to hear the comments flowing from their mouths. It was terrible!

No one ever congratulates the unsuccessful candidates for their courage and bravery for making a fool out of themselves on national television, or a figure to be bullied via social networking sites and the tabloid.

These shows are created by selective editing so that the characters are portrayed as the producers want them to be seen to the public, which isn’t often favoured by the contestants themselves and which often makes them the subject of public ridicule… Can this be justified?

Yet again, I can’t quite comprehend how Simon Cowell, a talentless millionaire who wears his jeans up to his neck, lives in tight black tops which expose his unnatural DD breasts, and has a horrendous hair style resembling a BBQ Brush, can tell people that they have talent or not.

Everyone has talent, whether they know it or not. I personally believe that pressing a buzzer and telling people they don’t have talent is wrong because it connotes the idea that they are completely talentless, when really, they haven’t discovered their true talent.

What pains me the most about these talent shows is how even very young people are allowed to audition. As the age range for these talent shows is ever decreasing, making 7 year olds famous for singing and dancing, they are open to severe criticism which could damage their childhoods.

Yes, some stars have been made out of these ‘talent’ shows, yet their success is extremely short lived. Quite obviously fixed by SYCO (Simon Cowell’s corporation which dominates music and television), such as The “Swagger Jagger” herself, Cher Lloyd, the annoying mismatched boy band ‘One Direction’ and the one hit wonder, Leona Lewis. It seems as though the only people who have sustained success in the music industry is those who actually work for their fame, opposed to apply for ‘Talent’ shows.

Most people in this world are hungry. Be it hunger for food, or hunger for fame. Most people will do what they can in order to suppress this hunger; I don’t feel talent shows are the right way to go about this, do you?

Nothing like a good bit of hard work and some elbow grease (Waitrose, isle 7) in order to find your feet in this world is, I believe, the way to strive and achieve. Maybe that way, fame and life would be appreciated more than those who find it via the TV.