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Royal show wannabe at wrong audition
10:49pm Friday 5th September 2008
An 81-year-old turns up at the X Factor this weekend, thinking he is auditioning for Britain's Got Talent.
Peter Lee, from Kilmarnock in Scotland, plays the spoons to Singing In The Rain and tells judges he wants to appear on the Royal Variety Show.
Simon Cowell tells him to return in six months when the next round of auditions for Britain's Got Talent, whose winner lands a spot at the Royal Variety Show, begins.
Saturday night's ITV show also features a married couple who embarrass the judges by getting steamy in front of them during their audition.
Lyndsey and Lee Wearin, from Chesterfield, sing Celine Dion's It's All Coming Back To Me Now.
But the judges begin to feel awkward when the duo, who call themselves Hard Wearin, start kissing halfway through their performance.
Judge Cowell tells them: "That was a bit steamy. Goodness knows what would have happened if we'd asked for a second song."
He tells the pair he is "convinced they are going to have a great night tonight".
Saturday's show also features Rochelle Muirhead, 20, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, who performs the splits to impress Cowell, and Joelle Moses, 17, from West Drayton, Middlesex, who wows the judge with a rendition of Whitney Houston's I Have Nothing despite having taught herself to sing with a vocal training CD because her family could not afford lessons.
The X Factor is broadcast on Saturday night at 6.50pm.
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Man arrived at X Factor audition thinking is was BritainÂs Got Talent
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