Jon Courtenay has said that winning Britain's Got Talent couldn't have come at a better time as he was beginning to drown in debt from the Covid-19 lockdown.
The 47-year-old singing comedian pocketed a cool £250,000 for winning the ITV show, scooping a huge percentage of the votes with a landslide victory.
Jon had been writing his own songs and working on cruise ships before the coronavirus pandemic left him out of work and short on cash.
Jon told The Mirror that they have "no savings" and that when he was working he wasn't "earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a year." With his wife Emma, 44, a stay-at-home mum, the family found themselves in a "tough situation" with Jon unable to work.
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