BRITAIN'S Got Talent star Gruffydd Wyn Roberts revealed he watched himself being given the Golden Buzzer on Saturday night's episode in a pub.
Speaking on Lorraine, the 22-year-old opera singer said he "over the moon" to be straight through to the final – almost a year after a video of him bringing another pub to a standstill with the same song during karaoke went viral.
The theatre worker and crepe chef told host Lorraine Kelly of the moment Amanda Holden pressed the Golden Buzzer: "I was over the moon. I didn't know what to think."
Gruffydd revealed that he watched the pre-recorded episode at his local pub in Amlwch on the Isle of Anglesy in North Wales.
He added: "There were about a hundred of us there, and they were all cheering and rooting for me.
"It was an experience."
On Saturday night the budding star received a standing ovation as he performed Nessun Dorma – the song which propelled Potts to fame after his initial audition.
Gruffyd, who was just ten when Potts won the show in 2006, had to fight through his performance after initially being halted by judge Simon Cowell just a few seconds in to his initial song, Un Giorno Per Noi.
The rugby player, who lives at home with his Nan and only met his father when he was 16, was backed as having "something special" by a tearful Alesha Dixon.
She said: "I don't know you well but there's something about you that I just wanted you to win. I really did."
Simon said: "That song is the ultimate underdog song. And when you can nail that song in an environment like this with everything that's going through your head, you deserve what you just got. You have it in you Gruffydd."
It comes almost a year after a video of him bringing a pub to a standstill with the same song during karaoke went viral.
In the clip, Gruffyd can be seen downing a pint before taking hold of a microphone and singing Luciano Pavarotti's famous song as shocked pubgoers look on.
At the time he told WalesOnline: I was scrolling through Facebook on Sunday morning when I saw the news story on WalesOnline.
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"At first I didn’t think it was me, then I looked a bit closer at the article and realised it was.
“It was a bit of a shock, then lots of friends were tagging me and sharing the link, it was a bit crazy.”
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