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The eighth series of Britain's Got Talent started on 12 April 2014 and ended on 7 June 2014. The finalists are given in the order in which they finished.

Collabro are a musical theatre boy band. They formed only a month prior to their audition. The group consists of Michael Auger, Richard Hadfield, Jamie Lambert, Thomas J Redgrave, and Matthew Pagan. They auditioned with "Stars" from the musical Les Misérables. For their semi-final performance, they sang "Bring Him Home", also from Les Misérables. They won the show on 7 June after a performance of their audition song "Stars" with 26.5% of the vote.

Lucy Kay (born Lucy Kay Allen in Nottingham) is an opera soprano. She currently lives in Glasgow. Whilst on the show, she mentioned her school years in which she went through rough patches of being bullied. She was picked on due to her love of classical music. She claimed that a few days before the final, her planned performance was changed. She finished in second place after a rendition of "Nessun dorma" in the final.

On 19 June 2014, she signed a multi-album deal with Sony Music. Her debut studio album Fantasia was released on 24 September 2014 and debuted at number 18 on the UK Albums Chart and number one on the UK Classical Chart.

It was announced that Kay to play the role of Narrator in the 2016 UK touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The tour began in January 2016 and is scheduled to run through July 2016.


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