14/2/2008

Former Port Talbot phone salesman Paul Potts has had more than 21 million views on YouTube, it was announced today.

The US website TwinCities.com today recommends Paul's album One Chance as a good one for St Valentine's Day.

But it cruelly adds:

"There's an awful lot of crying involved in the story of one Paul Potts, a stocky British mobile phone salesman with awful teeth and crushing self-doubt who also happens to be a crowd-pleasing operatic tenor.

"His initial audition on Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent quickly ascended to the ranks of YouTube fame.

"To certain audiences - including, most likely, your mom - this is the musical equivalent of heroin."