Win sets Diversity dancing for joy
Street dancers Diversity are celebrating a shock victory over singer Susan Boyle in the Britain's Got Talent TV show final.
The group's performance won them £100,000 and a spot in the Royal Variety Performance in front of the Queen.
The members of the Essex dance troupe were visibly stunned when the result of the public vote was announced.
Runner-up Boyle put on a brave face, saying: "The best people won."
Stumbling over his words, Diversity choreographer Ashley Banjo, 20, said: "I was saying, 'Guys, second!' When you said our name ... honestly, I'm going to wake up in a minute."
The group, which includes three sets of brothers, had put in a stunning performance, weaving in a cheeky reference to the judges' buzzers by donning red caps to represent the buttons used to get acts off the stage.
Judge Simon Cowell said: "If I had to give marks on that, that is the only performance tonight I would want to give a 10 to."
Saxophonist Julian Smith, 39, from Birmingham, came third in the closely fought competition.
Diversity, whose ages range from 12 to 25, formed in 2007 and won a national dance competition the same year. Throughout the show's run they elicited glowing comments from the judges and wowed the studio audience, but were never tipped as favourites for the prize.
Bookmakers avoided a potential multi-million pound loss with their victory, as Boyle, 48, had attracted the lion's share of the bets to win.
