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Monday, June 4, 2018 –
1:51pm
Stand-up comic Lost Voice Guy, aka Lee Ridley, has become the
first comedian ever to win Britain’s Got Talent.
Ridley was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, which affects muscle
control and movement, when he was just six months old.
“It means I can’t speak and my right side is weaker than my
left. So I walk funny, too. I also developed epilepsy as a
teenager. Obviously, I didn’t have enough to cope with,” he told
The Guardian.
The Newcastle-based comic used a speech synethesiser to deliver
his winning performance on the hit ITV show. Judge David Walliams
said his performance was “one of the best stand-up routines I’ve
seen – let alone on this show”.
Following his crowning moment this weekend, Ridley took to the
stage for a final time to say he had been blown away by the
experience and that he was looking forward to performing for the
Queen.
Interviewed before the final, he said: “When I am performing,
it’s as if I have finally found my voice, and it’s a great feeling
making people laugh.”
Ridley won his biggest laugh of the night with the joke: “I
started off in a disabled Steps tribute band. We were called
Ramps.”
“He also joked that he had had a facelift” that was “almost as
bad as Simon’s [show founder Simon Cowell]”, says the BBC.
Cowell “took the jibe in good humour”, saying after the results
that he was thrilled to see Rigby win, the broadcaster adds.
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Here are five things you may not know about the talent show
champion:
A chance encounter with Ross Noble changed his life
In an interview with The Guardian, Ridley recalled seeing
comedian Ross Noble performing a set in which he did an impression
of Stephen Hawking. After the show, Ridley approached Noble and
joked: “Do you want to see who can do the best Stephen Hawking
impersonation?”
Noble found the incident so funny that he incorporated the story
into his routine, which in turn gave Ridley the confidence to
persue his own dream of becoming a stand-up comedian. He began
performing sets in Sunderland, before appearing at the Fringe
Festival in Edinburgh in 2013.
“To be honest, I wasn’t aware there were many disabled comedians
until I started myself, ” Ridley told The Guardian. “I think
we provide something different, instead of just a person telling
jokes followed by another person telling jokes. I guess that can
get quite stale.”
He has a BBC Radio 4 sitcom
Ridley has what the Radio Times describes as the “rare honour” of
having featured two weeks running in the magazine’s Radio Choices
section, for his BBC Radio 4 comedy Ability. The show
is “about a man with cerebral palsy, who finds it
hard to get served in pubs because he already looks drunk and whose
inner voice is pure Geordie, while his spoken voice sounds just
like Stephen Hawking”.
You can listen
to the pilot episode on Ridley’s website.
He suffered a nasty fall after the semi-final
Ridley shocked fans in the run-up to the Britain’s Got
Talent final when he tweeted a picture of himself after
suffering a fall at home.
This is why Lost Balance Guy never made it
onto #BGT. Don%u2019t worry though, it was only a
trip. I%u2019ll be match fit for the final on Sunday! @BGT pic.twitter.com/SBSXCy02OF— Lost Voice Guy (@LostVoiceGuy) May 30, 2018
He tweeted: “This is why Lost Balance Guy never made it onto
#BGT. Don’t worry though, it was only a trip.”
He reassured fans: “I’ll be match fit for the final on
Sunday.”
And more than match fit he was.
He’s ready for hecklers
Ridley programmes his performances into an iPad that then
delivers the words via voice synthesiser. “He usually does it
before a show, but has been known to enter information into the
synthesiser during a routine when he’s really on a roll or a new
joke comes to him,” says the Daily Mail.
Ridley told The Sun: “I have some emergency jokes, in case
my iPad plays up while I’m on stage. It’s awkward at first, but the
jokes help break the tension while I get it to work again.
“I’ve yet to be heckled, but I do have some comebacks stored up
just in case I am – I’m dying to use them!”
He wants to change his accent
Ridley “also made his mark on BBC Three last year, when he
appeared in this short film that saw him going in search of a new
accent for his voice synthesiser”, says Metro.
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Asked by The Sun before the Britain’s Got Talent final
what he would do if he won, he replied: “If I won the £250,000
prize money, I’d get a Geordie accent for my iPad!”
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