A GIRL famously kidnapped as a baby from a maternity ward 21 years ago is to appear on Britain's Got Talent, The Sun can reveal.
She chose not to use her sob story to sway the jury and get them on her side. University student Alex Griffiths wants to become famous as a dancer and chose Britain’s Got Talent to do so, however, she refused to use her I-was-kidnapped-as-a-baby-story to gain sympathy from the judges. She wants: “to impress people for who I am and what I can do, not because I was kidnapped as a baby”. People told her that she should definitely use her story but she denied. She says that producers in the end understood her decision to stay quiet and she does certainly not regret it!
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Alex Griffiths certainly earned my sympathy, by not using her kidnap story to have advantage over others in the race to become Britain's next big talent. As the article said, a lot of people use these stories to become one of the favourites in contests, such as BGT. Even if they have barely anything to do with the act, or haven't really had any influence on becoming good, at the thing someone is doing. This girl doesn't even remember she was kidnapped because she was a baby so it wouldn't make sense to me at all, if she used her sob story as a boarding pass to a next round of BGT.
She definately earned my sympathy too Dennis. There are a lot of people who use stories to become famous or to become one of the favourites in contests as you have said. She has chosen for the option to be quiet about it and do it with just herself and her talent. She has my respect!
ReplyDeleteGood blog, nice summary! I agree with you, it takes a proper mentality to not use such a thing to your "advantage" if you can call it that.
ReplyDeleteThis goes both ways: what all of you are saying is absolutely true, but it is also true that because everyone knows this happened to her and she's not bragging about it, newspaper articles like these start popping up which, in return, give her fame after all. Might be a smart reverse psychology trick to get more fame by NOT using her story.
ReplyDeleteSo basically whatever she does, it'll get her media attention anyway...