Warren Bacci, Director of the UK’s fastest growing talent agency for children, Top Talent Agency, has reported a huge rise in enquiries from parents following last weekend’s BGT final – in which half of the acts were still at school.
 

Staff at the London & Hertfordshire agency have been inundated with phone calls and emails all week from parents keen for their children to be the next Pre-Skool or Gabz Gardiner.

 

“Our phones have been ringing off the book since the final of BGT on Saturday night," says Bacci.
 

"The number of enquiries had been rising throughout this current series of BGT, especially when the Saturday night programme had featured children.  But following the final it has been crazy!  We usually get 10 new enquiries a week, but we already had that number by 11am on Monday.
 

“A lot of the children’s agencies in the UK are purely for child models, rather than for children with the talent to act, sing and dance, or they are attached to full-time London theatre schools, so Top Talent is unique in that we have children on our books who do not even attend drama classes of any kind, but are just extremely talented youngsters.


Bacci, who also runs a part-time weekend drama school which has provided the spring board for Harry Potter’s Rupert Grint and Ed Westwick (Chuck from Gossip Girl), says the success of the child stars of BGT make parents think their own kids have the talent to be the next big BGT winner. 
 

 

“The irony is that we are looking for new children, as there are so many films, TV shows, musicals and commercials using talented children nowadays, so we are taking our search nationwide in August to find more regional children, with auditions in Manchester and Glasgow.

 

“But we always audition children first, and would never take on a child who didn’t come up to our high standards when it comes to raw talent, or whose parent was more keen than the child to break into the world of performing.

“And like Simon Cowell, I often have to be brutally honest with parents about their children's ability and the chance of them  making it on the stage or the big screen,” he adds.

Top Talent Agency sends children on up to 30 auditions and castings a day, and has strong relationships with the best casting directors around, so it is important that he really does have the most talented children on his books.

·           Top Talent Agency holds auditions twice a year in London and Hertfordshire.  This summer, in August, for the first time, it will be holding auditions in Manchester and Glasgow too, as part of its Summer Search for Top Talent.  

·           Website: www.toptalentagency.co.uk   Twitter: www.twitter.com/toptalentagency