Michael Collings (singer)

The fifth series of Britain's Got Talent was broadcast on ITV between 16 April and 4 June 2011. After initial rounds of auditions, forty semi-finalists were chosen to perform across five live shows, with eight appearing in each of the semi-finals. The act from each show who received the highest number of public votes went through to the final automatically. They were joined by either the second or third placed act, with the four judges declaring who they wanted to go through. In the event of a tie, the second finalist was determined by the public vote.

Each of the acts performed again in the final on 4 June 2011. Jai McDowall won the competition after finishing with the highest number of public votes. Ronan Parke finished in second place, with the difference in the votes being 2.5% between the first and second place contestants. Singing group New Bounce finished in third place, followed by dancer Razy Gogonea and singer/guitarist Michael Collings. Paul Gbegbaje (6th), Les Gibson (9th), Steven Hall (7th), James Hobley (8th), and Jean Martyn (10th) were the other finalists.

A Scottish singer who works as a support worker. He won the competition beating bookies favorite Ronan Parke.

A Singer from Essex. He was the ultimate favorite to win the competition.

New Bounce (ages 12–16) are a boy band made up of Mitchell Zhangazha, Kuan Frye, MJ Mytton-Sanneh and James Anderson whom all met working as the Young Michael Jacksons on the hit West End Show, Thriller Live at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, a show that also briefly featured 2009 contestant Shaheen Jafargholi.

They first recorded together as a group at Brick Lane Studios and Dean Street Studios along with fellow performer Kieran Alleyne, for the official Thriller Live! tribute to Michael Jackson, Speechless under the direction of the Thriller Live musical supervisor John Maher and the songs producer, Dave Loughran.

They auditioned with "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars (aired on 7 May 2011). However, after a few lines, they were stopped by judge Amanda Holden who requested them to sing a different song. They then proceeded to sing "All My Life". They received a much better response. Judge David Hasselhoff stated that the lead singer Zhangazha was flat all the way through the first song, but they were great on the second. Amanda Holden also praised their second performance. Michael McIntyre felt that although he thought the second song was better, was worried if the other judges were patronising them. Holden gave them a yes vote, while McIntyre gave them a no. Hasselhoff also gave them a yes but advised Zhangazha to work on his vocals. They made it through to the next round. The judges were unsure if they were going to put him into the semi-finals. The judges re-auditioned them against girlband Be Minor (who made the semi-finals the following year), with New Bounce emerging on top and making it through to the semi-finals.

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