Saturday, September 13, 2008

Y Factor a great success

The Y Factor was an enormous success on Thursday night. Dean Gormley of law firm Halliwells was crowned as winner after wowing judges, even the super-cynical Terry Christian, Rowetta, Sean Fitzgerald and Angie Robinson and an audience of over 450 professionals with his rendition of Suspicious Minds. Emma Leathley of Clearwater came second with her excellent Manic Monday.

Overall, the event raised nearly £40,000 for Mencap.

A DVD of the night, plus unseen extras, will be available soon after some wizardry from Chris and Alan at Zut Media. No doubt it will include raw footage of Phil Tarimo of Investec who provided "one for the ladies" with You Can Leave Your Hat On. The hat, and the trousers, did indeed stay on... but the shirt did not.

An absolutely blinding night. I understand Dean is still wearing the Elvis outfit.

2 comments:

NIGEL HUGHES said...

Hey Mr Leaf - how about a search engine enhancing link to that Scouse/Blackburn combination at Zut?

Anyway - here they are, if there's anybody out their looking:

http://www.zutmedia.com/index.html

EAR I AM

NIGEL HUGHES said...

Out there. Out there. Out there.

Repeat 100 times.

EAR I AM