Dad demands Karla's audition be X-cluded
got this from inverness-courier.co.uk
IF the two singers appearing at tonight's charity show at The Ironworks get together, then television talent show judge Simon Cowell can expect his ears to be burning.
Andrew Muir and Inverness resident Karla Bernardi, who will be singing at the Cancer Research UK fund-raising show, have different experiences of the notoriously sharp-tongued music industry executive.
Muir of Faulhouse in West Lothian survived to the final programme of the second series of "Britain's Got Talent", where Cowell was one of the celebrity judges.
In contrast Bernardi's efforts to win a place on ITV1's "The X Factor" were blocked by Cowell at an audition in Glasgow last week.
Bernardi, who had already been seen by three producers before winning through to the celebrity panel of Cowell, Louis Walsh, Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole of Girls Aloud, only got halfway through her chosen song, Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High", when Cowell asked her to stop.
After rejecting her second choice, Bernardi went on to sing "Footprints in the Sand", but Cowell's response was to tell her that she could not sing and there was no point in arguing with him. Walsh also said Bernardi had no star quality, though the female members of the judging panel were more positive, Minogue suggesting she deserved a second chance and Cole saying she thought Bernardi was good.
"The most incredible thing was that they put an 80-year-old woman — with no teeth — through to the second round and told Karla she had no star quality," Karla's father Frank declared.
"I firmly believe that he knows inside himself that Karla can sing, but I think they've used her for a reaction from the people at home who will say: 'That girl can sing! Why did she not go through?'"
Even a direct appeal to Cowell from more than 20 of Bernardi's friends and family who had travelled to Glasgow to offer their support failed to sway the judges.
Karla Bernardi at The Ironworks. Bobby Nelson
"I said to Cowell: 'Can you not give Karla another chance? I'm sure she would improve if you put her down to the boot camp.' But he told me: 'I know you like your daughter, but she's not good enough for this show and never will be,'" Frank said.
"Karla was absolutely devastated to be treated like that. The girl can clearly sing. But it's not put her off and she's more determined than ever."
Bernardi's last Ironworks show, where she played support to 2007 "X Factor" finalists Hope, was well received by the local audience.
Frank is so angry that he is calling on the programme makers to cut his daughter's audition from the show when it is screened in September.
"I've told the producers I don't want them to use any of that footage. I've had an argument with them about the way they've treated us as a family and they basically made a fool of my daughter," he declared.
However, while Cowell remains unimpressed by Bernardi, she has won over another music industry veteran after entering a "Win A Deal" competition in a national tabloid.
Doors open at 7pm and entry is by donation to Cancer Research UK.
IF the two singers appearing at tonight's charity show at The Ironworks get together, then television talent show judge Simon Cowell can expect his ears to be burning.
Andrew Muir and Inverness resident Karla Bernardi, who will be singing at the Cancer Research UK fund-raising show, have different experiences of the notoriously sharp-tongued music industry executive.
Muir of Faulhouse in West Lothian survived to the final programme of the second series of "Britain's Got Talent", where Cowell was one of the celebrity judges.
In contrast Bernardi's efforts to win a place on ITV1's "The X Factor" were blocked by Cowell at an audition in Glasgow last week.
Bernardi, who had already been seen by three producers before winning through to the celebrity panel of Cowell, Louis Walsh, Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole of Girls Aloud, only got halfway through her chosen song, Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High", when Cowell asked her to stop.
After rejecting her second choice, Bernardi went on to sing "Footprints in the Sand", but Cowell's response was to tell her that she could not sing and there was no point in arguing with him. Walsh also said Bernardi had no star quality, though the female members of the judging panel were more positive, Minogue suggesting she deserved a second chance and Cole saying she thought Bernardi was good.
"The most incredible thing was that they put an 80-year-old woman — with no teeth — through to the second round and told Karla she had no star quality," Karla's father Frank declared.
"I firmly believe that he knows inside himself that Karla can sing, but I think they've used her for a reaction from the people at home who will say: 'That girl can sing! Why did she not go through?'"
Even a direct appeal to Cowell from more than 20 of Bernardi's friends and family who had travelled to Glasgow to offer their support failed to sway the judges.
Karla Bernardi at The Ironworks. Bobby Nelson
"I said to Cowell: 'Can you not give Karla another chance? I'm sure she would improve if you put her down to the boot camp.' But he told me: 'I know you like your daughter, but she's not good enough for this show and never will be,'" Frank said.
"Karla was absolutely devastated to be treated like that. The girl can clearly sing. But it's not put her off and she's more determined than ever."
Bernardi's last Ironworks show, where she played support to 2007 "X Factor" finalists Hope, was well received by the local audience.
Frank is so angry that he is calling on the programme makers to cut his daughter's audition from the show when it is screened in September.
"I've told the producers I don't want them to use any of that footage. I've had an argument with them about the way they've treated us as a family and they basically made a fool of my daughter," he declared.
However, while Cowell remains unimpressed by Bernardi, she has won over another music industry veteran after entering a "Win A Deal" competition in a national tabloid.
Doors open at 7pm and entry is by donation to Cancer Research UK.
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