If you live in London, you've invariably talked about nothing but the weather. I gather you've had a little rain? Rain makes you miserable doesn't it? Well, it's Friday and that should cheer you up slightly. If you want even more cheer, then I suggest clicking over the jump to see a bunch of naked men dancing on Sweden's Got Talent. Obviously, that's mainly aimed at women and gay men... but even straight blokes should find this fun. Let's put it this way, it pisses all over that rubbish Stavros Flatley nonsense from Britain's Got Talent.

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OK, so that might be a bit of a sweeping statement. I daresay the debates over Britain's Got Talent and the positives and negatives of the show will rage on for weeks. But now that the series is all done and dusted, think of this as my last words on what has been the best series of the talent show to date - and probably the most talked about show of the viewing year so far. And while we might all feign surprise at Susan Boyle losing out to Diversity - who if the bookies were to be believed, were among the outsiders - I'm prepared to stand up and say that I saw that coming a mile off. Maybe not with Diversity (since I was shouting for Team Stavros.....) but the more fevered the media coverage of the show became, the less likely it began to look that Boyle had it in the bag.

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Jeremy Paxman is getting ratty at the moment. At the Hay festival this weekend, he called TV viewers "a bunch of barbarians". He continued: "Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in this country now. I find this very depressing." However, after this weekend, I think he's got it wrong. Britain's Got Talent, like Big Brother, shows what the Number One Leisure Activity In Britain really is... and that's passing comment on a show you haven't even seen. This weekend, thanks to the Britain's Got Talent final, social networking sites were overloaded with commentary from people watching... however, in equal numbers, there were those that decided they pass judgement in a sniffy way, talking about how much they weren't watching it, like you can quantify how much you don't do something.

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Just when you thought that Britain's Got Talent couldn't possibly get any more dramatic or exciting, along came Friday's semi-final to prove us all wrong. When the dust finally settles on this series - and given the amount of media coverage it's spawned we reckon this one could be in the headlines for a while yet - there wil undoubtedly be two things that people remember about it. The overnight sensation that is Susan Boyle. And the moment that 10-year-old Hollie Steele went into a semi-final meltdown as the nation looked on.

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I've managed to watch Britain's Got Talent once this year and that was out of idle curiosity. Would it be as bad as I'd imagined? Yes... and some. However, giving a show like BGT a kicking is almost redundant. I mean, we all know what a vapid tit Simon Cowell is and, if you can stomach him, with his weird Action Man hair and perfectly rectangular face, then you've got to put up with Piers Morgan who looks like one of those toys than expands in water. Amanda Holden is a no-body. We all know this. However, no matter how I try, I can't escape it.

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Every time I tune into Britain's Got Talent, which, admittedly, isn't that often, I seem to either see Amanda Holden crying or pulling a weird face or Piers Morgan opining about the fact that "this is what this show is all about" and "this is what the country needs". Enormous ratings and a global resonance has bred a quite breathtaking self-importance, but you can't argue against the fact that the show, for whatever reason (complex or otherwise) has really captured the viewing public's imagination. The final is this Saturday (ITV1, 30 May, 6.45pm/9.30pm) and already the nation is going a bit barmy...

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Can we honestly think of any other show which has landed itself more publicity this year than Britain's Got Talent? Possibly not - and after a week's worth of semi-finals, the anticipation for Saturday night's final is reaching fever pitch (honestly, I have known crucial World Cup ties which have been greeted with less excitement). And what with Susan Boyle seemingly securing herself a nightly slot on News At Ten (she swears, she threatens to leave, she gets slagged off by Lily Allen - goodness, is there no real news this week?), it seems that BGT fever has well and truly taken over.

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It must have come as a surprise to absolutely nobody when Susan Boyle breezed through to the final of Britain's Got Talent on Sunday night. After all, the lady in question has achieved nigh legendary status since that original audition, the one which has been viewed millions of times on Youtube and propelled her to global stardom. The real question was whether she could pull off a similarly impressive feat in the semis? Or would the hype overtake and cause her to disappoint?

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So we're four weeks in, and what do we think of the current series of Britain's Got Talent so far? Well based on what we've seen, it's been a resounding success, dishing up loads of untapped talent and turning a few people into stars before the series has even been won. We've had the usual array of bad acts, all the phrases we've been waiting for ("and you think this is what the Queen would like to watch at the Royal Variety Performance....."), the usual array of exasperated facial expressions from the judges. But what's been the cream of the crop? With the Susan Boyle bandwagon racing on to its inevitable spot in the final, here are my favourite moments from the series so far that don't include the singing Scottish wonder...

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Britain's Got Talent seems to have captured the nation. Saturday's episode snagged another 10million-plus viewing figure, and the whole Susan Boyle thing has gone global. Now we have some pizza delivery man hogging all the headlines. He has made it very clear he doesn't want to play on his ex-partner's untimely death, and yet stories like this make the British public go aaaahh and awwww. Especially Simon Cowell. I don't I've ever seen him smile so much. The question being asked on the interpipe at the moment is why he seems to be nice in the UK and not so nice when he does his US shows. So what's the answer?

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Susan Boyle. Susan Boyle. Susan Susan Susan Boyle. She's bloody everywhere. She does look a bit like Benny Hill in a wig. She does have the ability to hold a note as well. One thing she won't have expected however, is to be referenced in South Park. Yep. Britain's Got Talent's very own Cinderella prompts Kyle's brother Ike to run away from home to live the life of a pirate in an brand spanking new episode of South Park (Season 13a) titled 'Fat Beard', which premieres on Friday April 24th at 10pm on Comedy Central (formerly Paramount Comedy). For a sneak peak of the new episode, click over the jump for a video!

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The way both the press and public have been carrying on over the past week, you'd think that Susan Boyle had already won this series of Britain's Got Talent. Already the 'Scottish spinster', as the tabloids have delighted in calling her has achieved global fame, performed on the Larry King Show, made Demi Moore cry and landed herself the ultimate accolade - a string of appreciation groups on Facebook, plus a fan page which over 1.2m people have so far signed up to. The social networking site also appears to have a number of people on it who claim to be the lady herself - remarkable for someone who confesses she doesn't use the Internet and had never even heard of Youtube until she appeared on it. Why do I sense there are imposters at work?

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I wonder whether this week's Britain's Got Talent will ever live up to last week's Susan Boyle episode. The imapct that the 47-year-old church singer made has reached global proportions - Demi and Ashton have been tweeting, Oprah wants her on her show and newspapers and blogs have been vomiting forth their opinions in great arcs of multi-coloured. I read a piece in The Guardian t'other day that got me thinking...

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Ade Edmondson's unfortunate brush with a hot stove in Hell's Kitchen reminds us that reality TV can in fact be a risky business. Maybe on certain shows it's de rigeur to just sit there, be pampered and come to no harm but if your average celebrity is learning to dance, camping out in the jungle or honing their ice-skating skills, chances are they're going to get hurt at some point. Here, in no particular order, is the list of recent casualties to plague the celebrity reality shows, and it makes for alarming reading. In fact, it leaves me wondering why, exactly, famous faces are queueing up to take part in these shows, when the real prize appears to be a ride in the back of an ambulance? As follows...

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I've read several articles during the past few days proclaiming that Britain's Got Talent is not only the saviour of ITV but also the saviour of the British human people. Why? It seems that BGT, in these times of doom and gloom, is just what the doctor ordered. As for ITV, the Easter weekend's show pulled in over 10 million viewers. That's quite a lot and should keep the ITV naysayers at bay for a while. But what about Susan Boyle? The enormous-eyebrowed church singer wowed everyone and cockles were warmed all over the shop. Now the Boyle is a global phenomenon.

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I'll admit it, I had high expectations for the new series of Britain's Got Talent,possibly due to its tendency to bring all of the country's supposedly gifted nutters out of the woodwork. One show down and so far I'm not disappointed. Saturday's show was a giddying collection of the wacky, the weird, and just occasionally the wonderful.

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Cheeky chappy Charlie Green from Britain's Got Talent has been cast in a movie, opposite other cheeky chappy Les Dennis. Charlie will star in Waiting In Rhyme, which is being made in aid of charity Macmillan Cancer Support. Hurrah! More to the point, though, doesn't he remind you of loveable cuts-his-hair-with-a-razor TV comedian Michael McIntyre?

And for a minute I thought, nay hoped, that the fame had gone to his head, and now Andrew Johnston is aspiring to better the Renaissance artist. I had visions of him emerging from a giant shell, a long blond wig swirling in the sea breeze. In fact, it was all a simple misreading. Let's not dwell on it.

Andrew Johnston, the council estate choirboy who looks a bit like a young John Leslie, is still out there, still singing, and rapidly - going on the latest pictures - experiencing pubescence. He wants to be BOCELLI, the opera singer. Not Botticelli, the artist (and 'fifth turtle')...