Is the woman who is suing BGT for real?

[Tiredmumno1]

So a woman who goes on britains got talent, to be told she cant sing is now trying to sue for 2.5 mil.

she says ''it is important for me not to have 20 million people all over the world thinking i cannot sing''.

wtf what a load of tosh, i really cant believe she is for real. if she didnt want honesty she should not have gone on the show.

i hope she gets laughed out of court, money grabbing low life.

Well if she wins I'm applying - I can't sing either, especially if there's 2.5 million on it

linky?

fuck, i could sue for 10 mil my singing is that bad.

Surely she must have some kind of learning difficulty if she couldn't work out that before the audition.

Well good luck to her! But what if she does not win the court case? she'll realise she cannot sing, cannot sue and it will be a real blow for her confidence. Poor thing!

No publicity is bad publicity

sorry no link it was in the sun.

i think its ridiculous. she reckons that 1.25 mil is for loss of earnings. she only appeared last year

why bother applying if you earn that much, which i dont obviously believe.

its all a bit odd.

www.express.co.uk/posts/view/188354/I-was-humiliated-on-Britain-s-Got-Talent-so-I-m-suing-for-2-5m I guess she just wants her 15 minutes of fame!

She wants to take them to an employment tribunal (er, she wasn't an employee) and to sue them for disability discrimination because she "suffers from an illness that affects her hearing"(er, maybe proving that she genuinely can't sing, so they were right...)

PMSL!

thanks for doing the link amuminscotland.

surely if you were going on a show like this and you really could not sing, a family member or friend should tell you to save the embarassment.

loads of people get told they cant sing on there, but they havent sued.

Maybe I could sue weight watchers for telling me i have about a stone to lose, therefore ruining my holiday

How ridiculous.

lumme, whatever does she do for a job that she is claiming £1.25M in lost earnings??

Maybe her job is a professional suer of reality TV shows

She probably means the lost theoretical earnings that she would have had in the first year if she had won the competition.

I can't see her getting a brass farthing. But maybe she'll get enough publicity to get her onto some other crappy reality show, or have her picture taken falling out of nightclubs, which seems to count as "fame" in some circles...

I think stealth may have guessed right

or the theoretical earnings if she was a brilliant brain surgeon
Which she isn';t but it's worth a try

well, surely in order for her to win, she must be able to prove that she can in fact sing.

There's nothing wrong with telling someone who cannot sing that they cannot sing. [boggle]

Ah but then she could sue the GMC for not letting her be a brain surgeon, couldn't she? I mean, she probably has about similar qualifications for that as for being a winner of BGT?

I don't understand why she's taking it to an employment tribunal.

Are contestants employees of the show then?

i watched bgt last year i cant even remember her.

so there goes her theory about everyone knowing she cant sing, if we cant bleedin well remember her

All she's doing is telling loads and loads of people who probably don't remember her, and maybe didn't even see the show (like me) that BGT SAYS SHE CAN'T SING. Making herself really quite famous(ish) as a person who can't sing and also has a very sketchy grip on reality.

Blimey Simon Cowell's got Tom Linden QC! That will be costing mega-bucks for something a junior with a couple of years' call could do. I bet the employment tribunal can't believe their eyes (or their ears, when they hear her case which is RUBBISH).

I reckon it will be knocked out now if it's a pre-trial review - the very fact one is being held suggests the general feeling is that she's a loon and the tribunal doesn't want to waste any further time on this one. Evidentially she'll have great problems proving that even if she got through the first round she would have won or whatever she's saying. It's not disability discrimination not to hire someone who cannot do the job you need them to do (although with an obligation to consider reasonable adjustments - what's she saying, that they should hire someone to sing whilst she lip-synchs?).

Her compensation claim even if she were successful is eye-wateringly out. £300,000 for injury to feelings? Maximum, for a prolonged period of harassment, etc etc is about £25,000. £1,000,000 for "compensation", plus £1,500,000 for loss of earnings? What's the "compensation" for exactly then, dear? To say nothing of how on earth she reckons she's lost that much in loss of earnings.

Hecate - no they are not (although thinking about it I suspect this may be why there's a QC on the case as there's technical points there).

Generally, you don't have to be an employee though to claim discrimination and the place to do it is the employment tribunal - eg partners and the self-employed, or even people who are turned down at the selection stage for jobs.

Isn't she the one that went missing for a while earlier this year?

Oh blimey jebus, do you think it was her, but didnt simon make a plea for her safe return