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Britain's Kit Kat Dolls have talent

After talking about America's Got Talent the other day, I was surprised to earn that the British edition (titled Britain's Got Talent, surprisingly) had a transgender group who were well-received and were considered front runners in the competition. The Kit Kat Dolls are nine performers who took inspiration from The Pussycat Dolls for their act.

Check out their audition for Britain's Got Talent below, and then let's discuss....

Is it just me or do Simon Cowell's eyes light up when they walk out on stage?

While there are plenty of surprised reactions to the Kit Kat Dolls, the show mostly avoids the cringing reactions and smug laughter (which can be seen in the reaction to Mark the Disco Dancer) that I'd expect to see if a similar act appeared on America's Got Talent ... or any other American reality show. Overall, the storyline to their audition video follows the routine hosts Ant & Dec take, going from making trans-phobic jokes to just being entertained by the Kit Kat Dolls' performance.

Unfortunately, we won't find out how they would have been received when the British public got to vote for them. After a tabloid alleged that one member of the singing group was moonlighting as a prostitute, the show quickly pulled them from the semi-final roster.

I have to admit, however, that I'm a little disappointed that Britain's Got Talent doesn't get a bitchy American judge. I'm a little concerned — is there a trade gap of sharp-tongued reality show judges? Do we need to send Janice Dickinson over?

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    The truth of The Kit Kat Dolls ?

    My name is Nat Udom ( a man who live as a man but ONLY dress up to be on stage-pink and yellow short dress ) and I'm a member of The Kit Kat Dolls.

     

    After the news, we were VERY sad and crying to lose the GREAT opportunity to be something that the society would have accepted us more in the positive way. It was NOT fair on the honest working band members like myself and others ( who are NOT for sale and NEVER have been ) who had worked SO hard to get there and then our dreams shattered by ONLY one member. Those 2 members ( Toni and Alex ) had told us about their past and they said that they will NEVER do it again, we therefore accepted them because we believed that if we could improve the lives of Toni and Alex to be better then we ( as the human beings) definitely would do that. I personally think that every single one of us should give the opportunity to people who are less fortunate than the ones who are already lucky, don’t you think? Every single one of us should learn how to love and care to others and willing to understand and improve lives of some people to be better with what we can. However, We were asking the ITV producers to let the rest of us ( 6 members ) to continue the show, but they refused us. We started to cry as soon as ITV producers said that the whole band had to be punished which was VERY unfair for the rest of the group. We live in the year of 2007 with democracy but we were treated with something which was NOT democracy.

     

    PS: The Kit Kat Dolls might be doing the big gig with spice girls (  UNCONFIRMED  ) in the big club in central London.

    Please click the link below for more details.

    http://www.g-a-y.co.uk/eventdetail.asp?ID=627

    www.Udom.BTinternet.co.uk

    www.MySpace.com/NatLondon

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