AIBU to believe that Hollie Steel should not have got a second chance to sing on Britain's Got Talent?

[MichKit]

Especially after she had, what I perceived, a proper little temper tantrum, with stamping feet and all when she was told she would not get a second go after messing up the first time? And AIBU for being really annoyed at her mother for letting her go on into that pressure cooker of a situation when she was so clearly not ready for it?

I am a sad person to be sitting here at 3.22 am, but DD has chicken pox, and I am trying to get her to sleep without scratching

sure her school friends will be taking the piss out of her for years to come - as the girl who cried/had a tt on national live tv

glad she didnt win - she wasnt up to it

She is not a baby. I was just embarrassed for her. So glad she didn't win - what would have happened if she froze in front of the queen?

There should bean age limit.

I just look at these children and think, this is not childhood. Shouldn't they be spending their half-term holidays running around the park, or playing, instead of in a studio rehearsing another horrible song?

I don't mind children being exposed to competition but this is big pressure and contains no useful lessons for children. What will Hollie take away from that - that she was not good enough? That she shouldn't nake mistakes? That what people want from a girl is a picture perfect little angel? It's all rubbish, superficial and damaging.

As Simon said yesterday, if a child has the talent - and the maturity - then why shouldn't they be offered the opportunity to enter BGT?

Hollie's parents shouldn't have entered her into the competition. She just wasn't emotionally ready.
I read in the Daily Mail yesterday that Hollie's mother wants her daughter to get "some sort of record deal as she'll never get a break like this again". Sad if true.

agree children should be allowed to perform

but

if they strop/have tears then the parents should take them off the show/stage

all children mature at different rates