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Monday, February 21, 2011

Petersfield tap stars hit by class divide

A Petersfield tap dancing group were kicked off reality TV show Britain’s Got Some Talent (No Really!) On Ice after it emerged the town did not have enough people daft enough to waste money phoning in to vote.

Taptastic were devastated as they were beaten by a street dance outfit from a council estate in Bethnal Green and a dole-scrounging robotics expert from Liverpool.


To be fair, the Scouse robot spider was quite impressive

Fourteen-year-old troupe leader Tina Tapshu sobbed: “We put our heart and sole (sic) into it but we couldn’t compete with the massed grannies, aunties, cousins and bezzie mates of the other acts.

“My mum phoned a few people from her bridge club and they made an announcement in school assembly asking for support – but it wasn’t enough.

“Most people in Petersfield were too busy living their actual lives to bother handing cash over to an international phone company and a low-brow TV channel merely to subsidise cheap programmes…”