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Paul Potts responds to verbal attack

Wednesday March 21st 2007

Paul Potts, the opera singing winner of Britain's Got Talent, has hit back at criticism from The Enemy frontman Tom Clarke.

Clarke was furious to hear that Potts' debut album looks set to knock his band's We'll Live And Die In These Towns off the top of the UK. He roared:

"I've just heard that we are about to be knocked off Number One by that fat bloke from Britain's Got Talent. It's a f***ing disgrace. Nobody will know who this bloke is this time next year. If he thinks he is going be making music in a year's time then he has another thing coming."

But Potts is adamant that this won't be the case. In response he said:

"The best is yet to come. My tour starts in January and I'll be singing for the rest of my life."

Potts, a former mobile phone salesman, won the ITV talent show after bowling the judges and the voting public over with his rendition of Nessun Dorma.