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Hey Pudsey, throw the kid a bone
What price talent? Ashleigh Butler was awarded £500,000 on Britain's Got Talent for training her dog Pudsey to do a few crowd-pleasing tricks. Meanwhile over on BBC2, a teenage cellist prodigy was awarded £2,000 after being named the BBC's Young Musician for 2012. According to the Daily Mirror , 15-year-old Laura van der Heijden was praised by viewers who couldn't help but point to the talent/pay disparity with Simon Cowell's ITV1 show. "A dog gets £500,000 and a cellist gets £2,000. What? Crazy."
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