{"id":8609,"date":"2008-06-04T15:56:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T15:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/06\/04\/signature-the-jacksons-wished-us-luck\/"},"modified":"2008-06-04T15:56:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T15:56:23","slug":"signature-the-jacksons-wished-us-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/04\/signature-the-jacksons-wished-us-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Signature: The Jackson\u2019s wished us luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Dance duo reveal backing from star family<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"278\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/Signature_Britain%27sGotTalent180x232.jpg\"\/>DANCE duo Signature have revealed they received a special message of luck from the Jackson family hours before the final of Britain\u2019s Got Talent.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Suleman Mirza, a 29- year-old trainee lawyer from Essex and 34-year-old Madhu Singh, from Hayes in Middlesex became an instant hit on the ITV show with their Bhangra-infused dance rendition of Michael Jackson\u2019s Billie Jean and Thriller.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Speaking to GMTV\u2019s Ben Shephard, Suleman revealed they received a special call from the Jackson family moments before they were due on stage. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it, it happened about an hour or two before the show, I got a call from the security manager saying, \u2018Hi, I\u2019m here with the Jackson family \u2013 Michael\u2019s mother and the two brothers are here \u2013 I think it\u2019s Jackie and Tito, they\u2019re sitting down, they wish you all the best and they\u2019ll be voting for you\u2019,\u201d Suleman said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI got a call back on Sunday, I don\u2019t think many people know this, and saying that apparently Michael\u2019s aware of our act and he\u2019s a big fan and he\u2019ll be contacting us soon. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s quite true, but we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The duo were beaten into second place by 14-year-old George Sampson in the final which was watched by over 13 million people.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>They said they didn\u2019t mind coming second best to the talented young dancer because \u201che was such a nice kid\u201d.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dance duo reveal backing from star family DANCE duo Signature have revealed they received a special message of luck from the Jackson family hours before the final of Britain\u2019s Got Talent. &#13; Suleman Mirza, a 29- year-old trainee lawyer from Essex and 34-year-old Madhu Singh, from Hayes in Middlesex became an instant hit on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}