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  • Thank GOD she didn't win. Look where the winner, Jodie Prenger is, and where Rachel is now. The biggest role on the West End to critical acclaim.

  • Have you noticed she punches the air with her right arm at the end of the song like she does with her broomstick at the end of Defying Gravity in Wicked?! She OWNS songs! :D

  • she is officially my favorite!!

  • INCREDIBLE!!!!

  • she killed this song

  • i saw her as meat in we will rock you! she was sooooo amazing!! i love her!!!

  • if she'd have won, she probably wouldnt be where she is now, saw her as Meat years ago and Elphaba last year- this woman is incredible!!! :) xxx

  • Rachel Tucker is a west end star - this video is just clear evidence

  • In my honest opinion, I think she exaggerated her part at the end.. But I guess that's just me..

  • The lord must be kicking himself after not choosing her

  • i remember watching this on the Sunday night result show and being absolutely blown away, just shocked at how creative her performance was, i've followed her career since that night and am so happy that she has the role of Elphaba in Wicked, truly deserved, she is one of the most talented British theatre stars and we should be proud to have such a performer. Can't wait to see her and meet her for a second time in December when I see Wicked again! :D

  • I'm just gonna say it.. this was the best version of this song on the whole series.

  • @Disneylandrocksxoxo she's currently playing Elphaba, the best female role in the west end! Look up some of her videos and see how much she's improved! Rachel's just extended her contract so she will now be in it for at least 2 years :) also she got her first west end part (meat/ us. scaramouch in WWRY) months after I'd Do Anything :) (sorry I went on a bit there!) x

  • Haha just from that performance by the hand gestures you just knew she would be an Elphaba :D

  • I see this show the first time.

    Wat a great show was that? What did they searching?

  • @MusiMaria it was in 2008 and they were searching for a Nancy (chosen by public and judges) and 3 olivers (chosen by judges)

  • 1:20 Hows that for a voice andrew. !!! 

  • I love this show. I watched every week. This song made me cry every week when a Nancy had to leave it still does make me cry. I love Rachel so much I didn't want her to leave I wanted her, Niamh, Ashley, Samantha, Sarah , Cleo, Jessie or Amy to win I wasn't to keen on Keshia and Tara. I wish Rachel lots of luck for the future. I hope she's in the west end soon and she could be a Disney Princess her voice is so strong and powerful. Her last 3 notes of this song was pure magic.

  • SHOULD BE NANCY

  • god idk why but when she says

    As long as HHHHEEEEEE...NEEEEEEDDDDSSSSS MEEEEEEEEEE i absolutely fell in love with her, best going away song, and when she finished im sure it wasnt just me that said DAAYYYMMMM

  • I have watched all the 'As Long As He Needs Me' videos from I'd Do Anything now, and I must say, Rachel is the best :) She puts so much emotion in the song, and not only does she sing the song, she is acting the song as well :D And doing it perfectly <3<3

  • brb, gotta go pick up my socks which were blown off my feet and to the other side of the room,

  • John and Denise look so sad...

  • She already has elphaba-like qualities here

  • Definately telling lord andrew that he needed her lol jodie was my favourite though, rachels better-than-everyone attitude wound me up...and what's with the snarl in the singing lol? She looks like a rottie, a beautiful one but a ferocious lion or something!!

  • she was epic, she milked all her acting skills in that song.

  • That was sooooo unfair. Rachel wa definitely the best!

    Everyone, go see her as Elphaba, she is incredible!!!!

  • what was this show for?? was it audtions for a play or movie or oliver twist?

  • i WILL go and see her as Elphaba

  • Fabulous in defeat!

  • Such power and warmth. Rachel should have won.

  • SHE'S GETTING A BIGGA PART THAN NANCY elpheba in wicked and not many people prefer oliver over wicked more people have seen wicked than nancy and the thetre is bigger with loads more songs to show of that FABULOUS voice

  • looks like shes running up the stairs to her room for having the necklace removed and shouting at them

  • Rachel looks so pissed when they take off her necklace i think they should've let them keep the necklace for memories

  • Lol, shes done allright for herself :D

  • Love the part when the audience claps every time!!!

    Soo.....I...wont BETRAY!!!!!!!!!

  • The final two should have been Rachel and Jodie. I'm glad Jodie won, because she i IS Nancy, and rachel has gotten so much out of this competition. If she had won she wouldn't have been in We Will Rock You and she might not have gotten Elphaba.

  • Rachel is gonna be amaaaazing as Elphaba!

    I'm soooo happy for her!

    <3

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  • the final should have been jodie jessie and rachel

  • I was so sad when she left.

    Rachel should've been Nancy.

    This just proves how much of an amazing actress she is.

    They made the wrong decision getting rid of her.

    xx

  • well she's going to be elphaba!

    so obviously some good came from it.

  • you must speak REALLY weirdly.

  • i speak very well thank you

  • Goosebumps EVERY time and I never get goosebumps

  • Rachael Is In We Will Rock You As Meat

    She Leaves On Saturday 19th September

  • 12th September. :P

  • Her acting in this is amazing. She's so honest singing this.

  • Damn Rachel!

    U rock..!

  • I really don't understand why some posters need to be so negative. I understand critiquing, but the intent of a critique is to improve the presenter positively. I did not see any "Nancy" from the beginning of the show void of talent, and for that they command respect.

  • so powerfull and so much emotion!!

    poor jessie, seems like she was almost going to cry! Rachel&Jessie are amaaaaazing

  • poor rachael she should have won and it looks like she was going to cry

  • 0:31 sounds like she said beats me if u see she thought the lyrics quickly

  • :D yay

  • this version is the only one that truly makes me cry every time.

    she sang it with so much emotion

    gives me chills

    she should have won

  • I wanted Jodie to win but there's no denying that she sang this the best out of anyone on that show... she was amazing. She should have at least made the final.

  • have you not got anything better to do than annoy everyone on youtube by saying she is rubbish!

    i would so like to see you do better than her!!

  • yea but you dont have to be so harsh

  • :S:S.. harsh?.. your clearly not in Musical Theatre! if u think ''i was happy this day'' is harsh :S...

  • Rachel should have won...every song tells a story, and rachel always told a story with the expression in her songs! especially in this nancys signiture song!! xxx

  • a she was mad

  • She was the only one who actually acted when singing this song

  • I was sure that Racheal would win the part of Nancy, She was brilliant. Gutted when she went out

  • Haha

    At first it seems like she aint gonna sing lol

  • She was bloody good, bless her.

    Sam was my fave though.

    x

  • BEST farewell song out of all the west end reality shows. BY FAR>

  • Jodie's brilliant but OH MY GOD. Rachel was so amazing!

  • Im Giving What I Thought

  • should have won!!! she is FANTASTIC!

  • the only people that really excelled on this song were francessca and samantha and ashley everyone else was okay

  • Francessa's was amazing! Thats the one tt truely stuck out for me and she wasn't even my favouite lol so i aint bias

  • She reminds me SO much of Ruthie Henshall. Anyone else?

  • Yeah she does, but for me her voice is soo much like Kerry Ellis.. I've seen her in WWRY twice now (only once as Meat, the other as Scaramouche) and her 'No-One But You' is almost identical to Kerry's.. i.e PERFECTION!

  • i know ive seen her do both ! and her no-one but you was like :O amazing wernt it, i cried silly me ! but she is just a person tht cn adapt her voice, and when she sang who wants to live for ever and under pressure i thought they were really grreat ! and she made me laugh

  • Now you mention it yes! Good spot! Would like to see Rachel tackle Fantine or maybe Chicago like Ruthie! (sadly no chance of her being a Nancy like Ruthie but ah well)

  • i was so hysterical watchin on the night! i cant believe she had to gO!!!!! after cabaret, standing ovation n emotional sing off. how cud it have happend. i was appalled at the decision! and im so glad rachels goin onto better things because she is really amazing! xxxx

  • thats a powerful voice, not shouting

  • she should of won !!! o well cant wait to see her in wwry now :D sure shes gna be awsum

  • i still cry every time...

  • she sings this like a star she is amazing bet andrew and camron r gutted to loose her x she sings with such passion i love her miss tucker i am ure biggest fan its unbelivable how amazign you are x omg this is amazing. andrew needs u he sure doees x i cry when i watch this x and i love how the other nancys are like wow you are amazing x ive gt summert to live up too x

  • I love miss tucker too! think she is such a star. cannot wait to see her in We Will Rock You (going on opening night!)

  • I loved this too much! I remember watching it crying and shouting 'You go girl you show em what they are missing out on' true star- shows WWRY what they are going to get!

  • ''Rachel acts her way through the song as if trying to say 'you should've chosen me!'''

    What else would she be trying to say through it? 'Oh, it doesn't matter, I don't care'?

    She does the exact thing they should be doing in this song..

  • wow. that was amazing

  • Jessie should have gone this week in my opinion. It should have been between Jodie and Rachel in the finale two. But glad Jodie won!

  • jodie and rachel (LLL) glad jodie won , but sam shoulda gone out , tbf the people who desrved the final were JODIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Rachel and ashley :O

  • She So Deserved To Win!

    She Was Actually Amazing =D

    She'll Get A Bigger Part Than Nancy

    Keep Believing In Yourslef Rachel And See You In The Theatre In Something Huge!

    Good Luck For The Future xx

  • There is no doubt that Rachel should have won! I heard she was offered the alternate but turned it down. Good for her, she should be Nancy and not the understudy!

  • I think Rachel, Jodie and Jessie should have been in the top 3. Not to sound a little random but Sam is to pretty to play Nancy. They were all amazing but Jodie I think did deserve to win.

  • And you're saying Niamh, Jessie and Rachel aren't pretty? Niamh is prettier than Sam imo!

  • Well im sayin that Sam was TO pretty bc lyk she sorta seems kinda perfect (which is a pain in the ass bc she lyk smiles whenever rachel says bye) but i never really lykd Sam bt lyk no doubt she was good its jst she seemed 2 try n be 2 perfect. But lyk Niamh, Jessie and Rachel are all really pretty! Lyk they r all hot! But I think Jodie was lyk amazing! And she supposidly lost lyk LOADS of weight over the show n she had a pretty face i thought!

    But i think Ive sorta went of the topic! lol

  • Jodie's 'As Long As He Needs Me' was absolutely awful, and probably scared the life out of Cameron Macintosh!!!! Her 'Needs' lasts about 3 seconds and sounds strained and wobbly. How anyone can even put Rachel and Jodie in the same league is amazing! Rachel's performance was strong, heartbreaking, powerful and emotional. She had an excuse to deliver a poor performance: her dream had been snatched away from her. Jodie on the other hand had made it and should have rocked it! Rachel = FABULOUS!

  • Jodie's last ALAHNM isn't that great but that was because she was in a state of shock. I think Rachel should have been in the finale but I still wanted Jodie to win and she did!

  • i always hated her...

    until she sang this, then i completely changed my mind, when it was too late.

  • Andrew Lloyd Webber is a prick.

    Rachel is amazing!!!!!!!!

    the production of Oliver missed out BIG TIME.

  • Jessie shoulda won. jodie didnt deserve it

  • she deserves a bigger part than Nancy

    AMAZING <3

  • Rachel will go really far! She shouldn't have gone but theres no point in keeping saying it cos we'll see her soon as a Leading Lady in the West End!

  • Im not saying that Rachel isnt a good performer she was great and she will make a fantastic west end star I just dont think she was right for Nancy and she looks desperate and manic and if you look at the others they go up the stairs once the locket is off but she just stands there asif to say I should be here. I genuinly wish her well in the futre though

  • She should have won!

  • She shouldn't of gone out! Samantha should of. she was amazing i wish she was nancy. i was soo upset she went out she was amazing love u Rachel I'm a huge fan!

  • andrew must of felt like an idiot after not saving this girl she is absolutly amazing

  • rachel was the best i thought she was fantastic i'm a huge fan!!

  • For me Rachels too desparte for it. Sarah should have been nancy

  • Yeah, I agree that Sarah would have made a great Nancy, or Niamh. Rachel's great but I've never exactly been a big fan, don't know why though. However its nice to see that she's putting her newfound fame to good use by helping charities back home. =)

  • that made me cry!

    she is so talented xx

  • should have won

    emotional, heartwrenching, powerful final performance

  • Rachel was the best singer, and the best actress - I love the warmth and passion in her voice.

    Fake? Acting on TV is much different to acting on a stage, and she was the only one who got that.

    Rachel deserved the part, but it was a popularity contest, and she was more reserved than the other girls. Jodie got the sympathy vote, which was why she won.

  • Shouting? to be honest compare to Jordie's clip. Rachel's voice has more power and clarity at high note. Shame Rachel should have won!!!

  • Shouting? to be honest compare to Jordie's clip. Rachel's voice has more power and clarity at high note. Shame Rachel should have won!!!

  • I believe any perceived "shoutiness" only stems from the fact that standard youtube videos have poor sound quality. ^^

  • i totally agree with j4Rose, and if you couldn't see that rachel was mega talented, then you must be blind, did you not see her performance of cabaret? it was brilliant!

  • Totally wrong choice. Rachel should of been second, Jodie first, Jessie third

  • Shes sings like a proper londoner when she sings the others dont

  • Best leaving performance by far. Jessie to win!

  • from the start, my favourite were:

    sarah, niamh and jodie (:

    but in my opinion, this is how tonight should stand:

    3rd - Jessie

    2nd - Sam

    1st - Jodie!

    jodie is phenominal :]

    she is my nancy

    please people vote for jodie,

    she needs all the votes she can get.

  • Jodie to win, definately!

    But please, Watch and Learn!

    This is how it's done!

    Thanks rachel!

  • this was amazing....she totally made it hers and changed it to basically say 'you totally shouldnt have got rid of me' if i had it my way it would be Rachel, Sarah and Jodie in the final.....jessie and sam shouldn't be there in my opinion.

  • I totally agree! Sarah was Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing to! She really deserved to be in teh final three!

  • i know...totally wish i knew how much i would miss her. or i would of voted more!!

  • Yes Magstar1234 JESSIE TO WIN! She's fabulous!

    VOTE JESSIE!

  • i totally agree,

    jessie should not be in the final!

    in my opinion it should of been :

    jodie, sarah and niamh!

    but out of who's there!

    JODIE HAS TO WIN!

    SHE IS MY NANCY!

    vote for jodie pleasee :]

  • jessie should not be in da final!!

    Sam 2 win!!! when she sing memory wiv rachel in da sing off, dat was absolutely amazing!!!

  • I bet He regretted his decision after that...Rachel is AMAZING!! Clearly the british public don't recognise real talent. She was miles ahead of all the other contestants. But never mind..she'll be the one with all the work when the show has finished!.

  • jessie does not deserve to be in the final she has no expresion and cant dance

    GO JODY!!!

  • i think that jessie is nancy!!!! she will be the winner!!! the first will go will be sam!! becasuse she is just to modern to play the role of nancy!!! she is more off a popstar!! and btwwhat is up with john?? sam ALWAYS gives the same faces and movements when she sings and doesnt sing out!!! its really annoying!!! just like niamh was!!! she was bloddy awful!!!

    JESSIE IS IN HER OWN LEAGUE!!!! GO JESSIE GO!!!!XXXXXXXXX

  • Rachels a fantastic all-round performer, and she isn't as polished as they say- she grew up in Belfast, left the country, has been around a good while fighting for her dream,etc. So she could have showed the gritty side, but I'm glad Sam was saved instead. Her talents more raw, and IMO her voice is easier to listen to- Rachel had a tendancy to go a wee bit OTT,but only coz she wanted it so much.

    However, I still firmly believe that Niamh should have been Nancy- she was in a league of her own.

  • i miss niamh too amy. she would have taken nancy somewhere exceptional.

  • I can't believe she got booted out

    I dont think she deserved to be out of the competition

    She did a stunning performance of Cabaret and she wiped the floor with Samantha in the sing off

    She was amazing every week

    I called about 100 times for her

    It was worth it to see her evry week

    From one rachel to another- You're amazing

  • The only reason ALW sent her home was because the public didn't like her. I mean this was her third time in the bottom two even though she did a stunning performance. She didn't stand a chance in the finale. Jodie to Win!!!!

  • if it were up to me sam would have gone the rest are far better than her rachel was the best one there without a dout alw and sir camron had a big fight iver her after it camron wanted rachel to stay and alw amitted he made the biggest mistake of him life

    denice and john huged her and cryed after it yo were robbed rachel lv your the best by 1000000 of miles

  • if it was my choice i would have kept jodie, sam and rachel!!! i was raging that she was out!!

  • No way is Rachel over the top. Everyone else is UNDER-performing. Good stagecraft is completely different to acting for TV. Rachel is a professional stage actress and very good at her job.

  • she was the best nancy (apart form niamh) she was good allround at singing and dancing the others that are left need work rachel was ready for the part! so she should not have gone! but unfortunatly people see who they like no who wold be good for the part which is really stupid as we will probably have jodie as nancy who is a bloody show girl! or jessie who cant do cockney or act very well!

  • Rachel should not of gone, she had all the areas of nancy, sam is just not nancy, Cameron Makintosh stomped out after, Andrew offered her the understudy and she said she had better offers, dont vote sam please

  • BravoT -

    Is this true?? Where did u hear this? I really hope it's true! :-) Good for Rachel, not accepting understudy...why would she want to understudy a Nancy inferior to her own?! Also, I didn't realise Mackintosh was peed off...I'd been under the impression that he wanted Sam! Clearly the panel do. Anyway, thanks for the info...look forward to finding out what show Rachel ends up in (she'd make an amazing Velma Kelly or Roxie Hart in Chicago).

  • I hadn't thought of that, but she would be amazing in Chicago!

  • Can't remember exactly what he said but from memory I'm pretty sure Rachel was the only person he actually said he would love to be his Nancy - think he has some negative comments for all the others though. THINK he told Sam she lacked emotion in the second part of the song.

    Might be corrected though! :-D

    I deff though he didn't look happy when the camera went to him after ALW picked Sam, I know I wouldn't have been!!

    Rachel should have deff won - she was amazing!

  • Ironic that Sam and Rachel sang against each other when they kept picking each other as the "non-Nancy" in past weeks. Good on you, Rachel, for singing "As Long as He Needs Me" as pissed off as you rightfully should feel!

  • You could tell the other girls were so proud of her.

  • Jodie's reactionat being told she was in the final was so heartfelt whereas Jessie's was so arrogant. Notice how when two judges said they didn't want Jessie to be nancy....there was silence from the audience, no-one cared but when Jodie's name was mentioned, there wss outrage!!!! P.S Rachel...best sing-off so far, it was truly heartbreaking

  • aw,i am still in shock rachel's gone!:( wth like,she deserved t stay way more than sam!! grr alw! worst.decision.ever! she was by far the best left in the competition and much more suited t play nancy than sam! she gave a knock-out performance of cabaret and was the best actress there! my fave from the start along with niamh!<3 so disappointed neither will be in the final now! wat a joke!..chin up rachel~ur gonna go far&i'll definately go see any show with u as leading lady! in a word~star! :D

  • I know it's good to go out after a good performance (as Rachel's Cabaret was AMAZING) but it seems such a shame, especially since this show votes out the 'worst' competitor. This week, Rachel was definitely not the worst.

    As for this song, I thought she sang it far better than other Nancys have. I don't see anything wrong with directing it towards Andrew's decision, that was exactly what she should've done! She wants to prove that she could've won, and show ALW what he's missing out on.

  • I agree, elleruth! My comment "at the end of the song was aimed at ALW" was an observation rather than a criticism, cos I'd have done the same thing! I love that about Rachel...ballsy until the end. Just like Nancy :-)

  • Too right :D I'm sure she'll move on to bigger and better things.

  • you go Rachel!! Andrew made the wrong choice.

  • i totally agree with MissAVuk,

    this is directly sung at ALW,

    isn't of 'as long as he needs me',

    its more like, 'he should've chosen me'.

    but a very good performance,

    jodie to win (:

  • This farewell performance by Rachel just proves that she would have made a fantastic Nancy. Her performance of Cabaret was absoloutely amazing. Its outrageous that she lost out to Samantha....although Sam has an amazing voice she is nowhere near as talented as Rachel.

  • OMG! I was so shocked. I thought that Rachel would win! What was A.L.W thinking?!? I have no favorite now. I don't actually care. Also Johnny was not selected to be an oliver! Grrr...I'll only watch next week out of curiosity.

  • Poor Rachel, Sam should have gone.

    You could see how much she wanted it more than Sam and Sam doesn't really deserve it as much.

    When you see Jodie & Jessie though, you can tell they want it so much, so I hope one of them wins.

    Overall, I'm voting for Jessie, she gives me goosebumps every week :)

  • I didn't like this last song. People kept saying Niamh's I'm Sure He Needs Me is weak - Rachel's one is far too breathless. I thought she was going to break down in tears before she sings, when she started the song so late! The latter half of the song was all right, but the "he" in "as long as he needs me" in the last bit was terribly out of tune (just one word though, nevermind :))I thought Rachel was a pretty strong contender, much stronger than Jodie and Jessie anyway.

  • She should look like she is supposed to break down in tears before this song - she's just been slapped across a bar! Whats wrong with you all?!?!?!

  • i completely agree!! Rachel sang this song from her heart with lots of emotion! shes an amazing singer and a fantastic actress! and anyone who says otherwise, knows nothing about musical theatre!

  • Katzie7 - have you ever been to the theatre?!

    Nancy has literally just been smacked across the face and humiliated by the man she loves! Rachel is the ONLY contender in this whole joke of a competition that has sung As Long As He Needs as Nancy. (I do think, however, the end of the song was aimed at ALW.) Rachel was too clever by half for this competition.

  • Irrelevant really which went out, its been a fight between Jodie and Jessie for many weeks. Its the transfer votes from Rachel fans and then Sam fans that's going to decide which. Jodie is the bookies favorite but its very close.

  • OMG Rachel should have won the bloody thing!! That's ridiculous! I can't STAND Sam, the smug cow, she can't act for shit! Out of the remaining three, Jodie should win! =]