{"id":594,"date":"2026-03-30T08:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/594\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:50:17","slug":"filipino-matty-juniosa-britains-got-talent-viral-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/594\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino Matty Juniosa \u2018Britain\u2019s Got Talent\u2019 Viral Audition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glasgow-based Filipino singer <a href=\"https:\/\/rollingstonephilippines.com\/tag\/matty-juniosa\/\" title=\"Matty Juniosa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matty Juniosa<\/a> has stepped onto the international stage through talent competition Britain\u2019s Got Talent. During the televised audition, Juniosa told the crowd he had come to terms with being labeled a \u201closer\u201d in singing competitions. Simon Cowell then asked, \u201cDo you watch Star Wars?\u201d Juniosa replied, \u201cNo, I\u2019m too gay for that,\u201d drawing immediate laughter from the room.<\/p>\n<p>Performing his own rendition of Prince\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain,\u201d Juniosa held back before the final stretch, then pushed into a full vocal run that prompted the audience to rise mid-performance. By the end of the song, all four judges, Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, and KSI, were on their feet. Cowell then hit the Golden Buzzer, sending Juniosa to the live semi-finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Juniosa previously competed on the first season of Idol Philippines in 2019, where he placed in the Top 12. After his run on the show, he relocated to Glasgow, where he works as a part-time waiter and continued performing before auditioning for Britain\u2019s Got Talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glasgow-based Filipino singer Matty Juniosa has stepped onto the international stage through talent competition Britain\u2019s Got Talent. During&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,171,406,407],"class_list":{"0":"post-594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-britains-got-talent","10":"tag-matty-juniosa","11":"tag-star-wars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}