A 14 year-old-boy has stunned audiences of Australia's Got Talent with his rendition of Whitney Houston's power ballad I Have Nothing, leading to comparisons with teen heart-throb and international superstar Justin Bieber. Despite a warning from judges that it was likely to be "dreadful", Jack Vidgen, from Sydney, wowed the crowd with his performance, bringing many in the studio audience to tears.Brian McFadden, one of the show's judges, was so impressed that he ran up on stage to give the boy a kiss.
McFadden told him: "You are a superstar ... I can just go home now. Job done."
A YouTube clip of Jack singing the eighties hit has since attracted more than 300,000 hits.
The baby-faced blond teen is now the favourite to win the contest - which includes $250,000 (£160,000) in prize money - and the Australian media has already dubbed him the next Justin Bieber.Jack has welcomed the comparisons, telling the Herald Sun newspaper: "I don't mind, if I was successful as him, that would be pretty amazing."
Jack started performing when he was aged just seven and has already won a talent contest in his local northern beaches suburb of Warringah with a rendition of the jazz classic Cry Me A River,
Jack started performing when he was aged just seven and has already won a talent contest in his local northern beaches suburb of Warringah with a rendition of the jazz classic Cry Me A River,
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