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  • i remember this like it was yesturday, so weird how my childhood has flown by

  • he isn't gay when he is this age is he, doesn't seem it

  • @monsterunited789 Yup, he's gay-- Will confirmed it over 10 years ago. A newspaper wanted to out him, but he decided to do it himself. It's not a secret at all.

  • Aw, he's lovely. And he's still going strong! :D

  • Nice moves! LOL

  • I wouldnt have selected Will based on this audition, but his brilliantly crafted career since then proves what the hell do I know?

  • @TheSolaris810 Are you saying this audition wasn't good enough to get through the first round?

  • @MaratSafinVideos

    Fraid so. Its hard to think he is the same artist today who is a heavyweight in his own right. As i said, what do I know- but this audition was...sorry...karaoke. Its all in the past!!!

  • @TheSolaris810 I'm afraid to say that to get past the first round of auditions, you don't need to be that good, therefore this performance was more than good enough. Anyone can tell from this that the guy has a unique voice but the song is hardly the one to showcase this.

  • @MaratSafinVideos

    Fair enough, its all subjective, but he could have made more of an effort with that dodgy dancing- I think thats what did it- it looked half-hearted & clumsy. Still all in the past, he choreographs well now, and is respected in his own right.

  • @TheSolaris810 Well, I think if he had auditioned a few years later knowing what these competitions expect he would have chosen a different song. It is a dodgy song choice for such a talented singer.

  • @MaratSafinVideos

    I agree, and he has proven that his strength is in ballads. I do respect him, he is a consumate professional.

    Good actor too. And now a film producer. Hard to think that the young Young had anything to with Pop Idol and anything remotely with the loathsome Cowell.

  • I met Will two weeks ago... such a lovely guy x

  • you are all laughting at his danceing on hereBUT now he should sing take a look at me now ha ha how for he has come ten years and still going srong keep it going will we all love youmythras90x

  • Awww so cute:)

  • Isn't it a fantastic coincidence that the winner was the last audition of the series.

  • blimy what a dance willbut never mind look how far youve come since those days good on yer will mythras90x

  • Full uncut version of Will's first audition available on my channel. :)

  • cuuuuuuute :)) i bet he cringes if watches this again :D

  • the x factor is rubbish to how pop idle was runso much hoo haa onit now and not many good ones yo listen to either but so glad will wonand how wrong was simon about our willhe of course wanted gareth to win mythras90x

  • haha love how wrong simon was

  • my my how our will has come along sincethis first audition it was very funny imean his dance but look at him now 10 years on and still ging good on yer will and good luckto you hope youe with us for a very long time to come form a massove fan mythras90 x

  • ---how! adorable.....is he?? alot!!

  • @will_young31 will probably cringe if he looks back at this.

  • @Mrblacksmokemonster He reacts to this now by being amused. Will said in his book "Anything is Possible, at the time of the audition he was last to go in and a producer told him to wake the judges up by maybe dancing a bit. They put him on the spot poor kid.

  • It's astonishing how simple the auditions were back then, there's so much fuss and tension in it now!

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  • just look how far has come since winning pop idle i am soglad for him now hes also acting ggod for him love from mythras90x

  • ha ha what a funny dancewill did BUT JUST LOOK HOW HELOOKS NOW SO HANDSOME AND talentd imso glad he won iam amassive fan of willx mythras90x

  • The dude is white. Most white people can't dance............ Hey, when did it go from Robert Young to William Young, or Will, for short.

  • @archiefan118 Because Will was the very last to audition, one of the producers him advised to wake up the judges by doing something and they suggested he danced. The poor guy was put on the spot. He isn't a bad dancer now though, check out his Live in London DVD. He was introduced as William Robert Young!

    At the beginning of the show they addressed him as William then it was dropped to Will. He is known by his family and friends as William but known in his career as Will Young.

  • @aligary Oh, you don't hear the William part very well. Thats probably why I was confused.

  • hahaha simon picked his nose

  • @aligary yeah okay! well he went far anyway in the competition

  • @vintagechick1 Yeah by winning it!

  • wtf was that

  • @vintagechick1 A very nervous guy's audition in a crowded room. His was the very last audition and everyone off camera had crowded into the room.

  • woah simon wtf.

  • absolute shite he wont get anywhere

  • @eamogoreilly How wrong you are mate, Will Young won the P.Idol competion in the UK 9 years ago. He's had a very successful career and is acting now also.

  • luvly dance moves....NOT lol :p but good singer

  • "your a good looking boy... you have a nice voice... can i bum you?"

  • @josevanreyes hahahahahahahahaha wtf.

  • hahah me & my dad are gonna dance to this on my wedding day :) x

  • omg look how low rent this show was back in the day

  • what's with the laugh track??

  • @TheMarkOfTheBeast1 I can explain the laughing. This was from the winners show where there was an audience and they showed this clip of Will at his first audition. Will was watching it too and pulling faces in embarassment.

  • jeremy from peep show.

  • @LostPigeonIsADick how wrong are you!

  • @LostPigeonIsADick I suggest a little research before making a comment like that.

  • @LostPigeonIsADick youve got to be havin a laugh

  • @LostPigeonIsADick u my friend with your stupid comments know nothing. will young is a very talented singer. he is the best singer around. He as found great success performing and acting.

  • lolz simon in gay mode's like the funniest thing on this planet hahahahahaha

  • Awwww He's so adorableeeee <33333

  • LOL simon

  • Aw, he seemed like such a nice boy back then (not that he's a hell hound now.) I'd want to pinch his cheeks like a grandmother if I saw him back then.

  • well he won the show! hes done really well since aswell!

  • I LOVE some of his songs, and this audition was so funny.

    I was wondering if anyone knows a place(site) where I can watch the first season of Pop Idol (UK), I've never seen if and it seems interesting. Oh and can you guys thumbs up my comment so everyone can see it and answer my question. Thanks :)

  • @kurlyfry6 Check out my page for some rare uncut Will Young footage from Pop Idol. :)

  • @kurlyfry6 It was absolutely INCREDIBLE, and so much more genuine than what we see today. if you've found a link I'd love to watch it all again, as all I have left are a few episodes I recorded on VHS :p

  • @livvyxo Sorry I never found a link

  • @kurlyfry6 did you ever find out how to watch it? I want to now

  • @daxwilliams I wasn't able to. 

  • See this is a talent show - go in a room, sing, judges say a little bit, you get told if you're through or not, then you leave! Not like now - huge build up, interviews and a sob story, then on a stage in front of 100s of people, then repeat sob stories to judge, sing for a bit, have judges insult you in front of the nation OR have a standing ovation and a tear-laden review of your performance, dripping with compliments. Then you leave to have your face all over the papers the next day!

  • @loveisallineedXx yep its all about television not really music now

  • @25superawesome It's not about talent anymore, is it :(

  • @loveisallineedXx im afraid not........ its now about who simon wants to do in the bum HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! I love simon don't get me wrong. He is AMASING, but he can act gay at times, and i think sometimes he only lets people go through to the next round if he thinks they are hot. Correct me if you think I'm wrong, but that's my opinion.

  • @archiefan118 Simon put Will Young through because of a nod from someone off camera. It came out later in the show that it was to make up the number of boys as they were outnumbered by girls. But even so Will went on to win the show...talent will out!

  • @aligary Oooooooooooo. Now that makes more sence. Thank you.

  • @loveisallineedXx couldn't agree with you more!

  • good vocals

  • 0:36 - Simon picks his nose

    teehee

  • @lippy88lizzy He touched the front of his nose. That's not picking his nose.

  • @CYMRUTUBE .......u r a very nasty piece of sh.. if u cant comment on the singing then go back in2 the hole u crawled out of dickhead.

  • @CYMRUTUBE u r a very rude person. u sud b blocked. you tube is about the singing not your small dick, which am sure u hav. how sad 4 u dick head.

  • @CYMRUTUBE - I think you do seeing as you are on so many of his your tube videos. Judging by your profile your obsessed and being from Wales I guess your the "only" on in the village:)

  • the dancing makes me smile.

    the vocals are A+++

  • @CYMRUTUBE please get a life if all u can think of is sex and not the real issue which is wills brilliant singing.

  • I remember this so much! I must have been about ten or eleven then!!

  • simon cowell is actaully gay- your a a good looking boy =)

  • haha memories:) haha the dancing I bet when he looks back what an earth was he thinking!!

  • HAHAHAHAH SIMON COWELL.

  • I bet it doesn't

  • simon doesnt sound  gay at all when he says ur a good lookin boy and you got a nice voice, ok it aint what id go around saying to geezers lol buttttt a nice looking boy with a good voice is fat money cos stupid little girls chase them round and money money, ew yeah, he did sound gay actually loooooooooooooooooool i just heard it, what a poofter

  • aw he's so cute!

    does anyone know how old he was there?

  • @Errghhh He was 22 when he did this audition. He was put on the spot before he went in the room. He was always last because of his initials and they said they hadn't had any good auditionees so maybe he should throw some dancing in. Poor kid wasn't at all prepared.

  • @Errghhh think he was about 22 :). i love him, got all his albums, brilliant singer :).

  • He's sooooooooooooooooooooo gay....but a terrific singer though

  • His singing and dancing is sooo adorable :)

  • Haha wow xD

  • I actually liked his moves -it was funny and cute ))

  • OMG Hasn't he come along way since that audition!! Doesn't show off his talent at all that clip. Thank god they put him through. :o) Talented guy!

  • It just goes to show how talent has progressed in the world of music. That was a rubbish audition, what the hell was going on with his weird dancing?! His vocals were average.

  • CUTE!!

  • atrocious.

  • heyy i sang his single, leave right now, im a very new singer, so check me out! dont be harsh ;D

  • His song Leave right now is always played in the eilimantion round on american idol :D x

  • pop idol was rubbish compared to x factor, can't believe american ido has just clocked on and replacing it 8 years later, we realised after 2 series

  • From facing Simon Cowell to facing Chris Tarrant.

  • hey, during the advert of this, does anyone know the drink that was the sponsor?

  • is the like the england version of american idol or what?

  • Yeah, it used to be. See, this came before American Idol, but it got replaced with The X Factor, which has Simon Cowell also as a judge.

  • @LEETSP33KA

    Yes, the British version came first though and it was called Pop Idol. It ended in 2003 and was replaced by X-Factor (in 2004) which American Idol is also being replaced with.

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  • You my friend are an asshole! Even though you are correct in saying that his audition was terrible, you are still an asshole who I would love to punch in the head!!!

  • @CYMRUTUBE Are you saying Simon is a man who prefers distributing pure protein?

  • has anyone thought that will young looks like robbie williams?

  • @reisdal Yes!! Especially in 1 clip, do not know which one that is, but just the way his hair was done and the way he looked, I immediately screamed Robbie lol

    Love Will better though (don't tell Robbie)!!

  • oohh yeah, you´re right

  • So pop idol will not return anymore, but why? The original idol come from UK and it is in more than 40 counties over the world, but they cancelled it few years ago.

  • thought i better rate ass there was already 499 so i made it 100 5* - it was a very gay though !

  • Oh my god what the hell! I forgot what utter crap that show was :L I'm glad x factors a lot better than that lmfao

  • THEY'RE THE SAME!!!

    THEY'RE EXACTLY THE SAME!

    That's like saying facebook is better then myspace or vice versa.

  • how low budge was tht place

  • If Britney is good.. then why does she mime? :\

  • because she need to dance!!!

  • What a cute face :3

  • AAAAH HES SOOO CUTE.

  • omg how young does simon look lol

  • dancing was bad hahahahah

  • Damn this guy is so awesome! his voice is really something else! evergreen <3!

  • aww, when he was still "straight"

  • He looks about as " straight " as a corkscrew in this video.

  • OMG

    HOW GAY DID SIMON COWELL SOUND WHEN HE SAID

    "you're a good looking boy, you got a nice voice"

    LMAO

  • LMAO!

  • @DivaMVRemaker  SO CAMP! :L

  • @DivaMVRemaker

    That's because this is England where they're not all homophobes like you, LEMONHEAD!

  • @DivaMVRemaker well yeah but i took it as being very mature

  • @DivaMVRemaker

    lol perhaps he his

  • she sells houses now lol in escape for the country

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  • @DivaMVRemaker That's cos he is! (Closet one)

  • Wahhh... look at him. He is so cute when he is smiling. :))

  • It's a shame how reality TV had changed so much now - X factor only seems to make finalists of contestants that are mainstream and will make money. I know Will is mainstream + makes money but he's not fake like the ones you see now - he doesn't mime and he acts himself. Now they all copy Britney/Beyonce etc. It's like a popstar conveyor belt. Glad he got in there early before the other crap that gets through these days.

  • I said that nowadays the acts on X factor etc are manufactured to emulate Beyonce etc. They are cheap COPIES. I didn't say that Beyonce or Britney were rubbish, I was saying that it's tacky the way entertainment shows try to make copies of them and fail.

    Calm down ;)

  • wow if will and gareth auditioned for Xfactor they wud onli make it to boot camp, judges housees if lukki! x

  • agreed!!!!!

  • then again people like Lloyd got through, hes crap and he cannot sing- no matter how cute he is.

    Luvs ya will ^_^

  • what was that?? :O

    Looking at that I would never thought I'd be buying his albums! :D

  • Haha wow the last ever audition of the series and he won it.

    I love Will :) x

  • he was a good cheese!

  • I love Will!

  • That was pretty awful. I love him though! He has a beautiful voice!

  • Wow I thought this was a joke but this was his actual first audition? Shocking.

  • vocals was good?..

  • omg what was that. haha.

    at least he changed a bit :)

  • lol what a shocking audition and massive coincidence that he was last ever audition

  • This was a really bad audition

  • he would never have got through on x factor no chance. he was amaaaze on pop idol tho! :D

  • I love how Pop Idol was all about the contestants. While I love X Factor, I do think it focuses on the panel too much. In this clip, the judges are just doing their jobs...look at Nikki here in her denim jacket compared to Dannii and Cheryl today dressed to the nines. Love Will in this-his moves are so funny!:D

  • Simon Cowell will you please come out of the closet, and while you're there tell R Kelly and Tom Cruise they're fooling no one either

  • I agree.

  • It's usually only Gays who can tell when someone is in the closet..do you have something you would like to share with the group ?

  • Only that i find Kevin Bacon just DREAMY in footloose. Plus its societies crime not ours, don't judge us harshly, we only want to be fabulous, mwah

  • OK Quentin.

  • Its Michael actually, now less of the lip or you'll be going for a swim in my pool.

  • George Michael..Michael Barrymore ??

    Why doesn't Barrymore use ashtrays?

    He likes to put his fags out in his swimming pool.

  • Too Soon! I'm still carrying a lot of scars from that evening. The whole ordeal shat me right up, plus I'm still struggling career wise. All I can get is panto these days and I've already done Aladin

  • Don't you love how he was the last person, and he won it. Coincidence!

  • omgggggggg.... how young does simon look!!!!!!

  • haha how awful does simon look!

  • lol... young and awful!! but hes cool!! he actually looks better now!!

  • what's the song name?

  • description

  • 'Blame it on the boogie' Michael Jackson

  • There's nothing wrong with what he said.

  • Ohhhhh he is soooooooo sweet. If you ask me makes all the judges look fools except perhaps for Pete Waterman.

    Will Young is a positive superstar bar none

  • shit

  • wow they murdered him

  • aw bless his dancing