1. George William Sampson was born on 29 June 1993 and is an English street dancer, television presenter, singer, and actor.
34 Facts About George Sampson
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George Sampson won the second series of Britain's Got Talent on 31 May 2008 at the age of 14.
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George Sampson is an official ambassador of the United Dance Organisation.
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George Sampson discovered he'd be auditioning for the first series of Britain's Got Talent only when he arrived.
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However, despite Simon Cowell's enthusiasm, he was unable to convince the other two judges, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan, to let George Sampson proceed to the live semi-finals.
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In 2008, George Sampson returned to, and successfully got through the first round of Britain's Got Talent series 2 auditions by dancing to "Rock This Party ".
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George Sampson then came top in the audience's vote in his semi-final with his arrangement of Mint Royale's big beat remix of "Singin' in the Rain", complete with an artificial rain machine on-stage, a formula that had previously been produced in a television advertisement for the Volkswagen Golf GTI.
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George Sampson subsequently won the audience's vote in the final, beating dance duo Signature and Andrew Johnston.
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George Sampson was due to perform a different routine for the final, to a track by the Bee Gees, which he described as involving "a lot of movement without me actually doing anything".
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On 20 July 2008, George Sampson was a guest on stage at the T4 on the Beach music festival at Weston-super-Mare beach teaching presenters Steve Jones and Rick Edwards how to dance.
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On 4 August 2008, George Sampson made his stage debut in the West End hip-hop musical Into the Hoods.
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George Sampson asked the agent of Take That if he could get Sampson to sing, but it turned out he already liked to sing from a young age.
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On 23 January 2009, George Sampson helped to promote the new Nokia 5800 phone in London's Regent Street.
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George Sampson handed over the first Nokia 5800 sold and performed a live dance routine to "Pump Up The Jam" by Technotronic which he choreographed to go with a touch-sensitive dance floor.
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George Sampson designed a plate for Blue Peter's Mission Nutrition appeal.
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George Sampson was a guest star in Britain's Got Talent: the Live Tour 2009 and he said that Nottingham was his favourite on 20 June 2009.
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On 26 June 2009, George Sampson became a Patron of Dance Aid organised by the UK registered charity Hope and Homes for Children.
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George Sampson spoke about how he was bullied when he was younger.
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In September 2019, George Sampson returned to Britain's Got Talent as a contestant in Britain's Got Talent: The Champions.
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George Sampson participated in the 4th semi final but did not receive enough votes to progress to the final.
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On 2 February 2011, George Sampson joined the cast of the BBC drama series Waterloo Road.
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George Sampson starred in the feature film StreetDance 2 as Eddie.
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In 2013 George Sampson returned to Waterloo Road as now 19-year-old Kyle Stack in episode 30.
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George Sampson was last seen being escorted off the school roof by teacher Simon Lowsley when, after Kyle contemplated jumping off the school roof, long-running character Tom Clarkson fell to his death trying to talk him out of it.
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George Sampson had a minor role in a 28th-season episode of the TV series Casualty.
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George Sampson starred in a pantomime, as Jack, in Jack and the Beanstalk at The Playhouse Theatre in Weston-super-Mare.
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George Sampson continued his television career by acting in Season 2, Episode 5 of The Dumping Ground on CBBC in 2014.
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George Sampson acted again in season four of Mount Pleasant but later left the role.
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George Sampson appeared as the character Reecey in the 2018 tour of Our House.
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George Sampson has played the role of Dean in Everybody's Talking About Jamie, in the UK tour, the West End, and LA productions.
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George Sampson has as of 2024 recently performed in the Easter Panto Tour of Robin Hood with Anton Benson Productions.
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George Sampson suffers from a condition called Scheuermann's disease, which affects developing bones in children and teenagers and can cause an abnormal curvature of the spine.
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George Sampson won the under-16 category in the United Dance Organisation's 2007 World Street Dance championships.
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George Sampson received an award for 'Favourite Winner' at the 2008 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards where he performed his signature dance Singin' in the Rain.