Panel to pick Joseph school choir
The BBC has decided a panel of experts will now choose the winner of a school choir contest that was supposed to be judged by a public vote.
Choirs uploaded videos of themselves on to a website, in a contest running alongside TV show Any Dream Will Do.
People could then rate the choirs online. But the BBC said the process had been compromised by evidence of block voting and technical problems.
A panel will choose the winner from 843 entries to perform at the show’s final.
The BBC had accused some online voters of unfairly trying to boost their choir’s chances.
The winner of the contest was due to be announced on the Any Dream Will Do website on 31 May but this has now been postponed.
It is not yet known when the winning choir will be notified but it will still perform during the show’s final on 9 June as originally planned.
The Any Dream Will Do talent contest is seeking someone to star in the lead role of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in London’s West End.
The 843 choir entries will be whittled down to 20 by the same expert panel who selected the Joseph finalists from regional heats, which includes the show’s vocal coach and judge, Zoe Tyler.
The winner will then by chosen by Andrew Lloyd Webber and fellow composer Howard Goodall.
