MASSIVE credit to Carly for this (see content source). I only read through it and added the things under “Nona adds:”, the rest was all done by her (also, please not that this means that “I” = Carly, not me unless your reading my added parts). Photos and clips will be up in separate posts shortly.

Summary: Me and Nona (AKA Nona Dodson on SH and @TVSerier_Nona on Twitter) have been fangirling at the Britain’s Got Talent Auditions and decided we wanted to make a Saula statement. We had tickets for Monday’s 1pm show and also Tuesday’s 1pm show. I can’t believe we did it I honestly can’t! I know a few have written letters, etc but we decided to be a lot more public and almost embarrassed Simon in front of 2000 people. Don’t think he has ever been asked what Saula is in front of an audience until we did. We loved it because his reaction was great and gives me so much more faith in Saula, especially as his reaction to everything I was saying lol.

Thank you so much to a very kind lady at the barrier with us we got the whole thing on film too! :D Sorry to Livi (from SH) who although a Saula fan is not a crazy Saula. 

Read the full story in chronological order under this page-break:

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Sunday 5th February 2012

I got a train to London on Sunday evening. Wasn’t the intention originally but would be nice to spend the evening with my SH girls and also it was almost cheaper even including the accommodation to get a train off peak on Sunday and stay the night than go on peak at 6:30am on Monday morning on peak.

Poor people around London had to put up with me and Nona. Me and Nona separately can be crazy, but put us together we are beyond crazy. Weird thing about Saula fans, I have met Nona only once before yet I honestly feel I have known for years and years! And genuinely feels like one of my closest friends. As she even said while we were planning my trip to Stockholm “now you know me well” and I made a stupid face with thumbs up, which made her laugh every time. We were so chatty, hyper and giggly on the underground I am sure that every person on every underground train just wanted to get rid of us as soon as they could!

I met Nona at Westfield’s shopping centre in White City (very funny to me as that is where me and Lorrie were when we were supposed to be meeting Val in Leicester Square – in fact actually felt the need to call Lorrie on my International Phone, even though she was in Memphis to tell her that I was at the same bus stop). We didn’t do too much except have spend time as the SH girls. First with Katia in Piccadilly Circus for something to eat, then we all the pubs and bars were closed met Livi at the hostel as she had only landed a little due to her flight being delayed.

Monday 6th February 2012

Queuing for tickets:

We wanted to get there nice and early and as I learnt from The X Factor in June 2010 although the doors open at 1pm realistic you want to get there closer to 8:30-9am to be sure of good seats. So we left the hostel at 8am, with a minor detour to the shop, and arrived at Hammersmith Apollo at around 8:30. Was really surprised it was completely dead! When I arrived at that time at The X Factor auditions before in Birmingham I wasn’t even in the first 100 people. There was no real line so we just took pics of us outside. We did get to meet Twist’n’Pulse (who were runners up in last year’s BGT) too who appeared to be followed around like little ducklings. Nona picked on me as it took me a while to realise who they were for a few seconds.

Nona adds: Twist and Pulse were actually in 2010, not 2011. ;)

We were in the queue waiting for around an hour or so, they then took our e-tickets and gave us actual tickets. When we looked at the seating plan we couldn’t really agree on if they were good seats or not. We then tried waiting at the barriers but they told us to go away and to come back at 2pm. We insisted on staying but they kept sending us away. So we went to Starbucks instead.

The Applause Store were jerks!:

When we got back the barrier where the judges would arrive were absolutely packed. We went up and complained to every person who worked at The Applause Store we could find as they sent us away and now people were standing where we wanted to be only an hour ago! They kept saying “we thought as you had your tickets and seats you would rather get in the warm”, and we kept saying “seriously do you think we got here at 8am to stand around in the cold for nothing this is where we wanted to be and you wouldn’t let us”. In the end we ended up across the road, which turned out to be not too bad in honesty.

So strange as while we were there I kept looking at this girl as she looked so familiar and I couldn’t think where I recognised where she was from. It was only when I saw the magazine article she was holding and that she in the pic I worked it out. She was a big Saula fan from Twitter (@RochelleJFS). Such a small world as it literally went: Me, Nona, Livi, 2 other girls, Rochelle. So to check I shouted “ROCHELLE!”, she looked round but didn’t recognise me, so I should “I’m Sportycb from Twitter” and replied “Caarrlllyyyy!!!”. I really love how you meet fellow Saula fans and although never met feel you know them.

Strange thing is that me, Rochelle and Nona all got interviewed by MSN news and it made it to the video :) ) In fact another guy I chat to on Twitter was there right next to us as well and didn’t see. Only found out when Kate (@Kate179 and KateLovesSaula on SH) said Paul had sent her link of him being interviewed and we were all on it. Here is the link > (Click here to watch!) [I honestly dare not watch too embarrassing, although Kate said it wasn’t that bad lol]

Nona adds: I watched, and they kept the stupid thing I said and the smart things Carly said. Argh. :P

Meeting Tania Mcintosh (AKA “stalker girl”):

While we were waiting for the judges appeared this… well what could only be described as a strange. From the beginning there sounded like there was something wrong with her mentally. I know that sounds like a horrible thing to say but I am being 100% honest. She was telling us that she had met Simon loads of times and that she would do things like jump on the cars to get a hug from Simon (plus a few other celebs). We thought that this was just the British version of Olivia, if you know who I mean. She said that she was known as the “Phantom Hugger” and the security kind of hated her as she would do such ridiculous things. We clearly looked like we didn’t believe her as she said “seriously Google me, my name is Tania Mcintosh”. As a joke we did and found that she was telling the truth. You are welcome to look it up and see what I mean.

This girl was honestly crazy and was practically obsessed with Simon! We looked bad enough when you have 2 massive fans like me and Nona together being crazy fangirls, but this girl honestly made look us completely normal! For example she was wearing 2 of Simon’s actual t-shirts; one which she wore and wore she wore as a scarf. When we asked how she got them, she said it was because she slept outside his house for 3 days and he thought she might be cold. We mentioned Sinitta at some point and she said she loved Sinitta as she would bring her cups of tea if she sat outside Simon’s house for several hours.

Me and Nona decided to ask her lots of questions, basically alternating. Her replies you may take with a pinch of salt if you wish and don’t have to believe her. We were believing what she said by how she acted and how crazy she was (plus due to reasons to be stated in a minute).

We told her we were massive fans of Simon fans but we were also massive fans of Paula (we made no mention of Saula at all just said it to make a point that we weren’t as a big fan of Simon as she is). She had no clue who Paula was. We actually had to show her pics of Paula from my iPod. She looked at them and said “what is her name again?” She looked confused when we said the name. She then said “I don’t know her. She does look familiar though”. A few minutes later she said; “oh I know where I recognise her from. She has visited Simon’s house loads”. We were half humouring her so we asked a few more questions. From this she claimed that the last time was not too long ago, although not certain when. She said just a few days before the Manchester auditions, which if I am correct I calculated to be about 2-3 weeks previously. Of course being me and Nona we asked a load more questions about this visit. She said she didn’t stay too long, just kept saying she had to speak to Simon as she had a flight 1:30pm and she really needed to speak to him. Not much more was said or was done, but she was waving some paper work and was adamant that she needed to speak to Simon ASAP.

Another point that differed from what I believed was when we spoke of where Simon’s house was the one she was talking about was not the house that I have always known as Simon’s house and the house that Mezhgan was photographed trying to get into his house (back in June 2010) was what she believed is his business house and not the house he actually lives in while in London. She said she did say where this house she practically stalks is but will send it to me via Facebook.

…Again as I said it is up to you how much you believe. Although we were starting to believe her I don’t want say what you should believe, purely just relaying what this crazy girl said to us.

The judges arriving (Day 1):

The strange part is we were convinced we saw Simon’s car drive past several times. Only say that was there was a Bentley went past with a police car behind it went past twice in both directions and confused us a lot. Even more so when there were rumours he was already in the building. In hindsight it was also interesting because Simon the following day didn’t turn up in a Bentley at all, he turned up in a Rolls Royce Phantom…and before anyone says I might be confused, as a huge ‘Top Gear’ fan I know well my cars well enough to tell the difference.

Ant and Dec – After ‘the warm-up’ guy who we all loved (who now I know is called Roycey) came and worked around the fans. Ant and Dec came out to do their links. We didn’t really see them as they literally came out, did their links, spoke to a few fans on the other side of the road and went back in. They never crossed over to where we were instead just waved to us and walked on.

Nona adds: At one point I shouted “DEC!” really loud, and Ant turned around and waved. Even they can’t tell themselves apart. lol.

David Walliams – David was the first judge to turn up. We were really annoyed as he did come over to our side of the road, but not directly across so missed us out. We were really hoping that he would come and speak to us afterwards, but never did unfortunately.

Carmen Electra – Carmen basically went straight in. She spoke to perhaps 2 people. In fact did a lot more posing in front of the camera than actual chatting to fans.

Nona adds: It seemed like no one had told her to walk up to the fans. Things changed in day 2 though.

Alesha Dixon – Alesha got out of the other side of the car to everyone else so came out our side of the road and came over straight away to meet us. She is so stunning seriously! And so sweet, she went along the whole of our section as well as a lot of that area shaking everyone’s hand and meeting everyone.

Nona adds: She really looked amazing. She had this really big smile on her face the whole time.

As for Simon he didn’t appear. We called over the security guards and he said that they aren’t expecting Simon and actually thought Simon was already inside. We waited for a bit but after another 10 minutes we realised how long the queue was to go inside and most people had given up and gone in we decided to join the end of the very long queue. We were speculating why Simon wasn’t arriving like the others, not helped by how that security guard suggested ideas of something on the lines of that it might be to do with his safety.

The show itself (Day 1):

Talent wise there was not too much. As this is a public blog I will not mention anything too particular. There was one outstanding act though. The only disagreement is whether the group should be separated. At the same time there also was nothing really so ridiculous either. Just one act that nobody understood they were 2 friends; a lady and man in their 70s I believe. They said they had no relationship of any kind but for some reason Simon felt the need to question about this endlessly and could not see how this could be the case. His comments were really funny, but I genuinely think it was just because nobody understood what he was getting at. He said: “So you mean you have never watched a film together on the sofa and ended up lying on top of each other”. I wasn’t sure what was more funny the comment itself or how Roycey (the warm up guy) after the act left the show mocked Simon on this saying that this was clearly how this obviously how Simon watches films at home with friends. Just to top it off Roycey sat down on the stage and actually did his own impression of this and pretended to be Simon. Seemed that this subject area was Roycey’s favourite, as well as introducing Jackie Sinclair, as he had nothing better to do apparently, he spoke of Julia his make-up artist. He said: “This is Julia currently touching up Simon at the moment…. I wonder how she got the job”. If you have not seen Julia, you might not know scarily alike she looks to Mezhgan. If you said they were twins I would believe you.

Nona adds: Also, there was this one contestant who’s track was skipping a bit. Simon was his typical self. Contestant: We seem to be experiencing some technical difficulties. Simon: That’s probably a good thing! [turns away from the contestant] Producer, help me……. The track is skipping? [turns back to the contestant] The track doesn’t want to be played. Still, in the end, the contestant got a yes from him with the comment: “Just because I can’t get this bloody song out of my head, I’m going to say yes.”

As for the judges themselves: Apart from Simon’s constant apparent need to speculate every contestant’s personal relationship he was was well… just regular Simon. His comments too were actually a lot funnier than before. Although half could have been David, as David and Simon sounded so alike there even I sometimes struggled to tell the 2 of them apart. Carmen was just harsh, in fact harsher than Simon. Some of the stuff she said could be considered rude and she was probably the most booed of them all. Strangely enough, by the following day though she was the complete opposite! I loved Alesha, she wasn’t spectacular in anyway but she made a lot of sense and really encouraged the crowd to cheer when need be and even gestured us to boo more at one point.

This all reminded me how much of this show feels like a pantomime. All we need is to have to say “it’s behind you!” and “oh know you’re not” and it probably would be. I actually love it for this reason, and we actually had to practise all various emotions and shouting “off, off, off…” at the same time while pointing to the exit.

Nona adds: I want to mention And and Dec again, because they really looked amazing! They came out on stage and said hi to everyone. I can’t remember much of it to be honest, I was fangirling too much. lol. Also, for some reason, Stephen Mulhern didn’t come out on stage at all on Monday.

After the show:

After a few texts with Katia we arranged to meet Katia where we were and charged our phones in Starbucks. We also decided at this point we wanted to make signs. We couldn’t find any large card or paper but in a card shop we found some thick glossy wrapping paper which was perfect. We also bought some Crayola crayons (yes kind of deliberate ;) hehe) to decorate and make the sign. Actually was the only things that showed up on there as we tried felt-tips to begin with and didn’t work.

We went for dinner at the pub there all together and I finished making the signs. Nona joined in at the end to finish some of the last of the colouring in. When I think of this, it makes me love how the only reason we know each other is that we are all on SH and yet it seems completely normal to spend the evening in the pub together have dinner and drinks. We took a few pics with the signs, and strangely enough got a few strange looks from the guy sitting behind us.

Nona adds: We never shut up. It was obvious that he was trying his best not to laugh. Ha!

Tuesday 7th February 2012

Getting tickets and our “new best friend”

Strangely enough me and Nona overslept and actually got up later than we did the day before and even though we didn’t have the same detour via the shop in the morning we actually turned up at the same time as we did the day before. We went straight to the line and still weren’t the first in line. About an hour later they moved us to the barriers to queue there. Being me we got chatting to everyone including the security guard (which turned out to be a good move). They then told us that they will give us tickets and we had to go. We refused to go though. The guy from the Applause Store kept telling us that we had to go, but we reminded him about yesterday and how we had no interest in having a cup of coffee and being warm we just wanted our place against our ideal spot at the barrier. They claimed it was nothing to do with them unfortunately and it was all up to security. So before getting our tickets I gestured towards the security guard who we were chatting to earlier to come over to us again. I explained the situation and what happened yesterday and what the guy from the Applause Store just said and he was happy for us to stay if we wished. We got our tickets, which at first we weren’t happy about it but after seeing where they were and what we could also get we decided we liked them. We weren’t allowed to stay on that side of the divide and they didn’t seem too happy for us to join the other side of the divide too, so we stayed around the front with the security guards permission and stay chatting to him for the next hour. We also met another nice girl called Zainab who was on her own and had the same thing as us yesterday too so tagged along with us for the rest of the day. Slowly we sneaked into the lined section next to the barrier where the judges would go pass. The day before this was the section was for the media and we were worried that we would get chucked out but our “new best friend” the security guard was happy for us to stay there, and said he wouldn’t let us get moved. This is fact is where we stayed until we went in for the show.

Nona adds: 1) Carly didn’t wake me up! ;) 2) The guy from the Applause Store is an interesting fella. He’s the person we talked most to the day before about being annoyed over having been sent away (he seemed to be bossing everyone around, so I guess he was in charge of the tickets). However, on Wednesday when I went back just to see And and Dec and the judges, he came up to me, said hi and asked why I wasn’t in the queue. When I said that I didn’t have tickets for that day, he told me to ask a person who’s handing out tickets for one a bit later, since there may be spare tickets. A few hours later (while they were still handing out tickets to people who actually had the e-ticket), I went up to one guy and said that and got a ticket right away. WIN! If anyone wants me to, I can write a post about what happened on Wednesday. The only things worth mentioning though is that A) Everyone went in the back, so I didn’t see the judges, nor Ant and Dec. Because of this, they sent us in early and played a few old BGT clips while we waited. B) The judges got interviewed by Stephen Mulhern and Alesha said that Simon plays the word game with her. Apparently he had been doing it with Carmen, too. Alesah aslo said that one time he had asked her to say “ask her if she used to be a man”. From what I understood, Alesha completely ignored that. 3) I wouldn’t say we sneaked into the line, I right out asked the security guy “Can we stand here?” and pointed inside the barriers. He said, yes and then when people were starting to be let in we just stretched out a bit so all of us were standing pressed against the side where the judges and Ant and Dec would walk.

Chatting to those in the crowd with us:

As predicted it wasn’t long until others were starting to join us, but we already had our base against the barrier so we were happy. We met quite a few people in the area and we (well I lol) swapped numbers with many others. Anyone who knows me well knows I am a very chatty and confident person so this is quite normal to me.

I am not sure how it started but I ended up telling this nice lady called Pauline about practically our entire fandom! :) ) We showed them the signs, although the first time they didn’t understand the Saula one. One subject lead to another subject and what started with me explaining that me and Nona we were actually big Paula fans too as well as big Simon fans, I had explained the fandoms, Twitter, what Saula was, the #Pamily and #Pamily Projects.

Interestingly enough Pauline (who actually knew who Paula was) asked me; “seeing as you girls seem to know so much about Simon and are big fans of Paula. Can I ask you a question, and you have to answer honestly… has Simon and Paula ever had a fling?” I actually refused to answer as I know I could talk of this subject forever and last time was insisted on answering by my housemate I wrote a 6500 word essay. Interestingly enough a few other voices who I didn’t even know were listening to this made comments “they have to be” and seemed convinced. Me and Nona found the whole discussion quite entertaining and we didn’t even give this say. Nona also kindly made me look crazy by saying that I had my 6500 word essay on the topic.

The conclusion of this however was that the kind lady Pauline volunteered to film everything that happened using my camera, hint for why we got all of this on camera.

Judges arrival:

I know I will have a lot more to say on these judges arrivals as this time we got to meet all of the judges a lot better :)

Ant and Dec – When we heard that Ant and Dec were on their way out we decided to get our sign we made for them out. One of the production team came over and warned us that Ant and Dec will walk straight past us and not to be offended it just because they will get their filming done first and then they will come and chat to us. When they walked out they actually stopped to read our sign both smiled and gave us thumbs up and said they would had to come back and chat to us. When they came back we managed to catch Dec quickly who actually remembered Nona from last time (I have a feeling that the Swedish flag might have been a small give away) and we asked for a hug, so had a group hug with Nona and Dec. However as they did so many takes due to the audience being so noisy they had no more time and had to go straight in so we didn’t get a chance to meet Ant too :(

Also we did get this on camera as Pauline thought she was filming apparently but actually it was still on camera so all we have is one pic with Dec’s head cut off and one of the floor instead lol.

Nona adds: Dec didn’t just give a thumbs up when he walked past, he pointed to the sign and to me. That’s why when they came back , I asked “did you recognize me?” (to see if that’s actually why he pointed to me) to which he replied “Of course, I’ve met you before!” in a tone that made it seem like it was stupid of me to ask because it was so obvious that he did. *dead* After, a very kind guy behind me who filmed Ant and Dec when they were out there with us said he would e-mail it to me since we didn’t get any pictures. I’m still waiting for that e-mail though. Hopefully he will remember to send it. Also, most of you may not know who she is, but Ant’s wife Lisa works on the show, too, and she was out there with them. When she walked past I (being a fan of hers, too) randomly said “Hi Lisa!” and she turned around and looked confused trying to see who’d said it. I just waved and she said “hi”, smiled, looked a bit confused and then kept walking after her hubby. I didn’t really feel like there was time to explain why I’d said hi, I just wanted a “hi” back, which I got. lol.

Carmen Electra – Carmen this time was the first judge to arrive. She did the same as last time and just made her way in stopping only at 3 or 4 people on the way after doing a lot of posing in front of the camera. We were one of the few she did come up to. As we had nothing for her to sign we got her to sign our hands… typically Nona then said she had a notebook in her bag along which she completely forgot about lol.

Nona adds: I LOVE Carmen Electra (I’m an old Baywatch fan… I actually re-watched the full show just a few months ago). I said “I’ve been a fan of yours for so long” and she actually looked up and smile and said “really? :D”. I don’t think she was expecting to see any fans there at all after having had a tough first day.

Alesha Dixon – We got to meet again but better this time around. While she was working her way around the other side of the road someone from the production team came over to me and Nona and said that we had to ask Alesha: “Have you seen any talent in London so far?” when she came over. We did ask what about if they don’t come over as all the judges only ever stopped at few people and he said that the judges are expecting us to ask the question and that they will come over to us. She was so sweet, and the only one to actually the only one to answer the question, as David didn’t later. Afterward I asked for a hug which she did.

Nona adds: I also asked for a hug and was about to get one, but Carly talked so much that Alesha got distracted when she was about to hug me. I did get her autograph though (yes, I’d gotten that notepad out at this point).

David Walliams – David was the next person to arrive, however the time it took from when he got out of his car up until when he saw us was literally 10-15 minutes, reason being that after doing most the street on Monday this time he insisted on doing the entire street which was about 30 or 40m long with people standing on both sides! While he was making his leisurely stroll round someone from the production team came over to me and Nona again and asked us if we could do the same thing again, which we very happily did. When on the other side of the divide we were shouting “David, David, David…”, was funny as he turned around and said “yes that is my name” and turned back, didn’t stop us still calling him ;) After we asked the question and said “can I have a hug?” which he did.

He was a lot different to what I expected because for a comedian he was not at all relaxed. His posture was very upright and the way he acted was very uncharacteristic of a comedian of his field.

Nona adds: This time I actually did get my hug! lol. Oh, and the reason we were shouting “David, David” in the first place was that the production team told us to do it. Although, I think we would have anyway. lol.

Meeting Simon!!:

Around half an hour later there was a rumour that Simon might not be turning up. The camera crew gave up and headed in, so when he did arrive there was no reason to ask him the question. After about another 5 to 10 minutes we called our “new best friend” the security guard over and asked him what was going on, he said that Simon was on his way but would be another 20 minutes or so. Slowly people started to queue up and head in so the crowd around was depleting rather fast again. Then our “new best friend” (we didn’t seriously know his name so this what we called him and what he answered us by) said that Simon was only 5 minutes away. Me and Nona were rather nervous and were actually considering whether it was a good idea to use the sign. With the cameras gone there was no obligation for him to come to us and with everything over the last week we genuinely thought that he would either a) laugh at it and go to someone else, or b) give us a disapproving look and ignore us still just because of the use of the word “Saula”.

Nona adds: His name was Perez or Paris (honestly sounded like Paris. When he said it, I said “Paris?” and he said yes).

In the end we decided to keep the sign and take the chance. It was really interesting to see the people’s expressions on the other side of the divide as they understood the Ant and Dec one and even wanted pics of us with it, but this one which said “Saula Forever” just gained a whole crowd of people looking very confused. Nona shouted over “you don’t get it do you?” which they all replied no looking even more confused.

Nona adds: You do make me sound awesome. lol.

I won’t explain too greatly what happened when he arrived as the video will do a better job than I. We were so happy that he did almost the obvious he smiled at it and came straight over to us :D We also both got a hug. I was just trying to test his reaction, knew he was hardly going to answer any questions so just said how much we wanted to see them back together again and see what he said and did in reply. He made a few suggestive comments of how he most likely would be working with her again, but it was the body language and little gestures he did which we were flailing about. I do hope it seems as apparent from this side on view as it was right next to him. The only part you don’t see as to shout to him I got my head in the way, was after he moved on to some girls around 10m up I shouted “give us a clue!” and he just turned back to me winked and went back to doing autographs. Oh and when I am laughing at Nona because she turned as he was walking away and randomly said to me “he smells so nice” lol! :) )

Nona adds: He does smell amazing! Also, as you see in the clip, Carly was still talking like a crazy person, so Simon almost just shook my hand instead of hug me. He did hug me though even if he was more focused on Carly’s questions (which is totally OK since it’s the questions we both wanted to ask).

BEFORE WATCHING: I have no idea what the hell I was thinking!! I can’t help but laugh hysterically at myself lol! I put in subtitles what I said and what Simon says in reply. You do miss one little bit as I get in the way of the camera too –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OdhmbFy3v8&feature=youtu.be

Nona adds: Missing subtitle: Me going “THAT was a clue” after the wink. lol!

The show itself (Day 2):

The show itself was very similar to the day before. I can’t think of many that stood out at all in honesty. During the break we were asked to do an interview, they asked about 20 people where the judges entered this and we had to sign release forms. I already done one of these as they asked me questions earlier which all I remember was doing off in a rant about Simon’s bubble baths and how he turned up late during ‘The X Factor USA’ with the excuse “a helicopter fell onto my car” :) ) The judges were much the same… except Carmen! We really didn’t know what to say about the day’s act as there was not much. Thing is with everything that just happened we also kind of didn’t care either.

Nona adds: Ant and Dec, Carly - Ant and Dec! You keep for getting them and you call yourself a fan? ;) ;) Anyway, I was holding up the Ant and Dec sign when they walked out on stage to greet the audience, and as they walked out Dec saw it and pointed at me for the third time in two days. This time we did get a video of it.

Carmen Electra:

Carmen seemed to change literally over night. She went from being really strong minded and the next day just did what Simon said [Rumour has it in the tabloids she took the booing on Monday very much to heart]. I think I will comment on their chemistry as there seems to be a lot of questions regards it. I personally felt they seemed quite close and got on very well, but it was more like Simon & Cheryl than Simon & Paula.

It was scary seriously though how similar Carmen was to Paula. I might this as if they were on mute, as they don’t sound anything alike or use similar language, etc. I mean that other than her hair colour from the back they looked similar; same height, same build. Carmen also danced to almost all contestants and in exactly the same way. Sounds stupid but it was like signature Paula in places, and the way she gestured when she spoke, etc was very similar. Read this how you will I am just saying how it seemed to me. However at the same time on the second day she was not at all alike Paula in one way in which, she was on the second day a complete push-over and literally was Simon’s little puppet! There is no way Paula would ever be like that! For example, all but Carmen buzzed one act and Simon leaned over and pulled her by the shoulder and whispered to her something. Me and Nona noticed because we were saying “what are you doing!?” Anyway literally straight away after Simon said something Carmen pressed her buzzer!

The worse one was when there this contestant was just ridiculous! Honestly so so bad (in my opinion) and it turned into like a Tiah moment because Carmen went first saying it was really bad and she didn’t like it at all. Then it went to Simon who said he hated it. While the other 2 judges were talking Simon and Carmen were talking. Then it came to talking and David was on the fence and went for “yes”, Alesha said a definite “no” and then it got to Carmen who said; “I have changed my mind I am going to say yes” and this girl actually got through because of this!

Perhaps we have mis-interpretted but this is how it seemed to us.

Nona adds: I’m not sure “rumor has it” is right about the tabloids. Roycey said to the audience on Wednesday that she did, which made the whole place go “awwww :(“. She didn’t deserve it! She wasn’t given a real chance, to be honest. I think she did very good on Wednesday. However, since I couldn’t see that much of the judges then, I’m not sure how often she got influenced by Simon. The similarities to Paula that Carly have described were definitely all there. It was a bit weird to be honest.

Embarrassing Simon about Saula in front of everyone:

We actually thought that would be everything we could get from all of this, but in the second half of the show Roycey (the warm up guy) said that he felt he was neglecting us on the balcony and said he would come and see us. So after the next act he came up to the balcony. He was at our section although a little distance from us (about 10 seats across) and Nona decided to shout out “should we get our signs out!?” and he just turned around almost mid-sentence and said “should you get your what out!?” back to her. Which is when we started shouting we made signs! He said he wanted to see them and we had to actually look for them somewhere on the floor as we didn’t think we would really need them again. Everyone seemed to find this fairly funny, and Livi I think by this point was trying to disown us very quickly ;) lol! We didn’t care, even if we did seem a tad crazy. Although they actually found it more funny when the idiot Nona held up the Ant and Dec one up but upside down and didn’t even notice. He read that one first and asked why there was a Swedish flag which so we had to explain that Nona was Swedish.

Nona adds: I love all that I did that is mentioned here. Everything from asking if we should get them out, to the upside-down Ant and Dec sign. lol!

Then he read the Saula sign that I was holding up and said; “and the other one says what? Sah.. Sall…Sor..?” and I shouted back “no Saula forever”, as if everyone should know that. Which he replied back to me “are you on drugs!?” lol. We were still saying Saula as if he should know and see what he said. Then he looked at everyone else and said “anyone else got a clue about what this Saula is?” which a lot of the audience were shouting no and there was a lot of mumbling and chatter going on. So me and Nona shouted, “Simon knows, we know Simon knows, ask him”! So he went back to his mic and started calling Simon who had been paying absolutely no attention at all and when he looked round didn’t know where to look. Roycey said “Simon! We are up on the balcony”, Simon looked up and waved to the balcony. We assumed he must have seen us as he did his “oh god…where is this going” look as soon as he looked up and while we were waving rather madly waving and holding up the “Saula Forever” banner. Roycey then said “these girls are going on about Saula, apparently you can tell us what this is”. This is the point we realised we thought we could digging our self in a hole if he decided to plead ignorance and say he knows nothing of it. Also at this point I personally thought “oh god he is going to want to kill us”, but he instead he kind of just laughed and didn’t say much. Roycey then asked; “is this awkward?” and he gestured “kind of” with his hand and half shaking his head (would make more sense if I could show you than explain in words). Roycey then said “oh…”, turned back to us and said; “hmmm… I am going to have to find out what this is about now”, lol. But Simon was actually smiling the whole way through! Unfortunately we weren’t allowed to record any of this due to how you are not allowed to film after a certain point and with Royce the warm up guy talking to us we could hardly get away with doing it secretly. Simon actually turned back to us though and gave us the thumbs up! :D I can’t believe I missed this and almost didn’t believe Nona when she told me that, until I looked at my phone and saw a text from Zainab (the girl who is not a Saula fan we just met in the queue – and is @xenon21 on Twitter lol) who was sitting in row T saying “Hehe! I thought he would kill you but he gave a thumbs up ;) ”!

Nona adds: I still laugh SO much every time I think about the “are you on drugs?” question. Bwahahahhaah. I’m pretty sure that Simon actually said “Oh no” when he saw the sign. lol. All was good though, obviously. *thumbs up*

A related note – I do love how you (well I seem to at least lol) make friends at these shows in the queue. I still text and tweet Zainab and we plan to meet up in London some time, not even a Saula fan or anything just met in the queue. Us similar crazy and similar minded people gel well together.

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