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Bonnie Anderson wins Australia's Got Talent   Author: Seven Network | Apr 30, 2007, 12:20

12 year old singing pocket rocket Bonnie Anderson was tonight declared the winner of Australia’s Got Talent by viewer vote and awarded the grand final prize of $250,000.

The Australia’s Got Talent finalists performed for one last time last week and Bonnie belted out her very own rendition of the Mariah Carey gospel song Jesus What a Wonderful Child.

Bonnie clearly wowed the judges with Tom Burlinson commenting that there was something special about her…a unique given talent.

Dannii Minogue believed it was Bonnie’s best performance on Australia’s Got Talent ever.

“You have an energy that radiates…so natural,” Dannii said...and Red Symons agreed.

“I like that you like what you do. It radiates from you,” he said.

The Australian public also clearly agreed and voted Bonnie Anderson the winner Australia’s number one new series.

Bonnie is a student at Mount Lilydale Mercy College and lives in the Yarra Valley, just outside of Melbourne.

Bonnie tonight said her experience on Australia’s Got Talent has been the happiest time of her life and it has taught her to ‘get out there and have fun’.

She plans to save most of her prize money, but will be giving some to two charities she has a connection to. Bonnie has a family member with Juvenile Arthritis and a young friend of hers recently passed away from an asthma attack. She has decided to support The Juvenile Arthritis Foundation and the Asthma Foundation respectively.

Australia’s Got Talent will return later in 2007 on Channel Seven and the hunt is on for a new batch of contestants www.yahoo7.com.au/talent - bring on the wild, the wacky and the wonderful!

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