I was 9 when this was broadcast, feels like yesterday! I taped the whole show on vhs and remember nearly wearing it out the amount of times I rewatched it! I remember being obsessed with Stars in their Eyes in general and it just holds a lot of fond memories for me of my childhood, good old fashioned Saturday night tv
Unfortunately this is the last final to have the tradition of last season's champ performing again since there was no season 15 until 2004 as the main series with Matthew Kelly took the year off in 2003 when Cat Deeley was hosting the Kids tournament and former Big Brother host Davina McCall filled in for Matt for the 2003 specials
This unfortunately was the last season finale that had the tradition of last season’s champion performing the song they’ve won with again before the winner is revealed and the finalists were in chronological order From the next year with Cat Deeley and Davina McCall taking over hosting duties in February-April 2003, they had the stupidity to put the finalists in random order instead of putting the finalists in the order of the episodes that they won
I love how the scores appeared for the contestants the were reading out for the ones after them. Someone was fired for sure. Notice how they end up just focusing on the contestants all together and don’t show the scoreboard after that 😂
State of the vote readout! Was the scoreboard operator pissed or on something? Should have stuck with Hayley and Roy the virtual golden humanoids from Champion of Champions
