Song change helped George Sampson win Britain´s Got Talent

Britain's Got Talent winner, George Sampson, said that he believes a last-minute song change helped him to victory.

The 14-year-old dancer from Warrington, who beat nine other acts to win the contest, had been due to perform to a Bee Gees track.

But George changed his mind just an hour before he was due to go onstage and opted to repeat his dance performance of Singing in the Rain, which had got him through to the final.

He said: "I wasn't sure about the choice of song and, about an hour beforehand, we changed it back.

"I didn't know about switching my act at the last minute but I went to Simon Cowell and he said: 'You should do it because there have been so many requests for Singing in the Rain.'

"He said: 'As long as you top it, you'll get the greatest comments'. I probably wouldn't have won if I'd done the Bee Gees."

George, who was knocked out in the preliminary stages of last year's contest, will now appear at the Royal Variety Performance and take home £100,000 in prize money.

He said: "This is the top of the triangle, like the star on the Christmas tree." George said he plans to spend his money paying off his mother Lesley's mortgage to thank her for paying for his dance lessons.

George will join the show's other finalists onstage for a live UK tour, which starts this Friday.

Britain's Got Talent's ratings peaked at 14.4 million viewers on Saturday night, making it the highest-rated entertainment show so far this year.

Via ukpress