LYNNE PARKER

Losers are the real winners – do competitions launch careers?

19th March 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Observing the success of several women who have come through the final of the Funny Women Awards and taken second, third or just a coveted place in the final, it says a lot about human ambition that being the apparent ‘loser’ often spurs you on to be the eventual ‘winner’. 

Higher profile competitions encapsulating nascent talent on prime time television appear to prove the theory – X Factor’s JLS are doing...

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