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<\/p>\nBritain’s Got Talent contestant Stacey Leadbeatter has hit back at critics following her progression to the final of the popular talent show.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old singer faced a wave of negative reactions after winning the second live semi-final on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Despite audience boos at London’s Eventim Apollo and criticism on social media, Leadbeatter has remained defiant, addressing the backlash in a powerful Instagram post.<\/p>\n
Leadbeatter performed a cover of Demi Lovato’s Anyone during the second live semi-final of the competition and received the highest number of public votes, securing her place in the final.<\/p>\n
Leadbeatter performed a cover of Demi Lovato’s “Anyone” during the second live semi-final of the competition<\/p>\n
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However, when the results were announced, the audience at the Eventim Apollo responded with boos.<\/p>\n
The negative reaction continued online, with viewers expressing their disappointment on social media platforms.<\/p>\n
Undeterred by the criticism, Leadbeatter addressed the situation in an Instagram post on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“I have seen so many not so kind comments since waking up this morning! Which I guess is understandable!” she wrote.<\/p>\n
She acknowledged people get upset when they don’t get the results they want.<\/p>\n
“But please remember I am a human being and I have feelings!” she continued, addressing the negative feedback.<\/p>\n
MORE LIKE THIS:<\/strong><\/p>\n She praised her fellow contestants as “amazing” and “beyond amazing,” noting they had become her “lifelong friends.”<\/p>\n Leadbeatter then struck a defiant tone in her post, refusing to let the criticism affect her.<\/p>\n “But I’d like to add. I am strong! I am proud. I am on top of the world and nothing anyone says can bring me down off this little cloud I am on,” she declared.<\/p>\n She expressed her positive emotions about the experience, adding: “I am overwhelmed, I am ecstatic, I am excited, I am in awe. Most of all I am thankful and very, very lucky.”<\/p>\n In the semi-final, Leadbeatter competed against a diverse range of talented acts.<\/p>\n These included magicians Alexandra Burgio and Jannick Holste, singer John Pierce, cheerleading group Cheer Re Mans, dance ensemble Lil M’s, and impressionist Will Burns.<\/p>\n She praised her fellow contestants as “amazing” and “beyond amazing,” noting they had become her “lifelong friends”<\/p>\n INSTAGRAM<\/p>\n Guitarist Olly Pearson also performed during the show and received a golden buzzer from judge Simon Cowell.<\/p>\n This special recognition automatically secured Pearson a place in the final alongside Leadbeatter.<\/p>\n The final results of the public vote revealed that Leadbeatter had triumphed over her fellow semi-finalists.<\/p>\n Will Burns secured second place in the voting while Cheer Re Mans finished in third position.<\/p>\n Leadbeatter had previously shared her excitement about advancing to the final in a celebratory post.<\/p>\n “On cloud nine. Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me tonight and who believed in me. You’re making all my dreams come true,” she wrote.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time Leadbeatter has been the victim of negativity, with the singer recently revealing she had faced bullying for a speech impediment.<\/p>\n Speaking to the Mirror, she said: “I have a video of me singing from four or five years ago and you couldn’t actually understand properly what I was singing due to the severity of speech impediments. During the lockdown, I would sit through adult speech therapy sessions on YouTube and then incorporate that into my singing.”<\/p>\n The 29-year-old singer faced a wave of negative reactions after winning the second live semi-final on Saturday night<\/p>\n ITV<\/p>\n She added: “If I don’t do certain exercises for say a couple of weeks at a time, I will start to revert back to how I was.”<\/p>\n Leadbeatter admitted she struggled at school due to her classmates\u2019 incessant mimicking and mocking of her stutter.<\/p>\n “Children unfortunately sometimes can be a bit harsh and I wasn’t the popular girl at school,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n However, she said that negative comments have only motivated her to aim higher and achieve more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Got Talent contestant Stacey Leadbeatter has hit back at critics following her progression to the final of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[709,4781,77,512,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-79866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-britains-got-talent","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-sgg","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114462405737021459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Instagram](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/instagram-post.png\")
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