Issue 5 - April 2011 - Ampleforth College
Issue 5 - April 2011 - Ampleforth College
Issue 5 - April 2011 - Ampleforth College
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ST MARTIN’S AMPLEFORTH NEWS - CASTLE FACTOR<br />
St Martin’s <strong>Ampleforth</strong> News<br />
Castle Factor<br />
This event is put on by the Gap Year<br />
students for the children to surprise<br />
us with their previously hidden<br />
talents. Milly Cooper and Joe Cleary<br />
ran auditions during the week to<br />
separate the wheat from the chaff (or<br />
the just about bearable from the truly<br />
bad!) Once accepted onto 'the list'<br />
the performers spent hours honing<br />
their act, preparing their costumes<br />
and practising their routines.<br />
The venue was the Long Gallery, the<br />
time was Sunday evening..... and 12<br />
very nervous acts gathered in the<br />
Matthews room (backstage). First the<br />
judges were introduced: Louis Walsh<br />
(Richard Wilson), Dannii Minogue<br />
(Lorna Garety - with an Australian<br />
accent that caused the MC much<br />
hilarity), Cheryl Cole (Anna Wilson)<br />
and the evil Simon Cowell (Nick<br />
Higham).<br />
In between each act the judges gave<br />
their verdicts, often using surprisingly<br />
familiar phrases. The people's vote<br />
for winner was 'The Soldier<br />
Monkeys.' Then the judges awards<br />
were given. In joint third place were<br />
Lizzie Dore's solo act and Alice<br />
Brookes and Lexie Everetts duo. In<br />
second place was Hamleys' gymnastic<br />
act and in first place was 'The Billy<br />
Jeans' - worthy winners.
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