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Danyl Johnson X Factor Video Goes Viral: The Next Susan Boyle?

by Blaine Metzgar | August 25, 2009 at 07:35 am

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Danyly Johnson is shaping up to become the next Susan Boyle; the 27 year-old's audition video for Simon Cowell's X Factor has gone viral and already garnered more than 1 million views on Youtube. Johnson even got a standing ovation from the notoriously unimpressed Cowell.

Simon Cowell gave Johnson a standing ovation and told him: “I have been doing this job for eight or nine years and that was single-handedly the best first audition I have ever heard.”

Johnson's rendition of With a Little Help From My Friends engaged the audience and the judges getting raving feedback from both.

In his first audition, which was broadcast on Saturday night, judges Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue appeared smitten by Johnson.

“You are a natural born performer and I will take you in my category right now,” said Cole, while Minogue told him: “There’s a few people that want to go back to school now because of you.”

Johnson, a former boy band hopeful, disclosed at the weekend that he is attracted to both men and women, and finds Cowell as attractive as the female judges.

“I don’t like to conform or be put into one box or another and, if I’m honest, all the judges are good-looking. If I like someone’s personality it doesn’t really matter what they look like or what sex they are,” he said.