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08/05/2009 by
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Viral Friday: Jamie Pugh On Britain’s Got Talent

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
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This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Jamie Pugh On Britain’s Got Talent. Britain’s Got Talent keeps providing major viral successes. This week the talent is called Jamie Pugh. Pugh, a 37 year old warehouse worker and pizza delivery guy. The runner up spot is for College Humor with We Didn’t Start The Flame War. College Humor keep scoring with their Original Videos, this is their latest. I-Movix SprintCam Showreel completes this week’s top 3. Slow motion footage is a real treat to the eye, especially if it’s in full HD. This one consists of 1000fps and 2500fps shots.

Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 5? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!

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1. Jamie Pugh On Britain’s Got Talent

Britain’s Got Talent keeps providing major viral successes. In week 16 we had Susan Boyle, in week 17 Shaheen Jafargholi, in week 18 it was Hollie Steel and this week the talent is called Jamie Pugh. Pugh, a 37 year old warehouse worker and pizza delivery driver, sang “Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables (same musical as Susan Boyle). He told the judges he had never performed on stage before and acted like he had horrible stage fright. Obviously he nailed the performance. It was later exposed that Pugh had performed in West End musicals. His response to being questioned was that he didn’t lie to the audience, Pugh said he never performed alone, it was always with a group. None the less the video of his performance got over 2.5 million views on YouTube since May 2.

2. We Didn’t Start The Flame War

College Humor keep scoring with their Original Videos. Their latest, “We Didn’t Start The Flame War”, is a real viral success with 13,083 Diggs, 6,309 likes, 11,000 StumbleUpon thumbs up, 502 delicious bookmarks and over 1 million views since April 20.

3. I-Movix SprintCam Showreel

Slow motion footage is a real treat to the eye, especially if it’s in full HD. The above video is shot with the I-Movix SprintCam V3 HD, consists mostly of 1000fps shots (the red jelly is actually 2500fps) and was made during a rugby match in the Stade de France in Paris. David Coiffier posted the showreel, which was made for the NAB 2009 exhibition, three weeks ago on Vimeo. The video got over 1.2 million views and can be downloaded in full 1920×1080 or in 720p.

4. Puke In My Mouth

The above is Pantless Knight‘s response to “Jizz In My Pants” by The Lonely Island. In the video Lindsay Gareth and Kosha Patel wear fake engagement rings to ward off douchebags. If you like the idea you can get you own fake ring at mstaken.com. Like the song too? Download it here and see the lyrics on YouTube. The video got over 850,000 views on Funny or Die, YouTube, Break, Heavy, Spike, LiveLeak, Vimeo and CollegeHumor.
(Source: Huffington Post)

5. Free Hugs Prank: $2 Deluxe Hugs

You can find them all over the world: people willing to give you a free hug. The guys at Mediocre Films thought the time had come to offer people a choice; the Deluxe Hug (only $2!). The video got over 1 million views in just under two weeks on YouTube, Break, Funny or Die, MySpace, Yahoo! Video and eBaumsWorld.