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Exterior wide shot The London Dungeon2. Close up sign, The London Dungeon3. Interior wide shot UPSOUND Alice Cooper tells host that London needs...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e** PLEASE NOTE: Background comments include profanity **\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLondon, 9 August 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Exterior wide shot The London Dungeon\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up sign, The London Dungeon\u003cbr/\u003e3. Interior wide shot UPSOUND Alice Cooper tells host that London needs to celebrate Hallowe'en more\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various contestants sing opera while standing on broken glass\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up Alice Cooper applauds\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various contestant drinks through nose \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Cooper, recording artist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well that night, it's going to be Hallowe'en, so you expect to find that. And then Jim Rose's circus is full of this kind of thing. And then Zodiac Mind Warp and Alice Cooper - that should be a pretty bizarre night.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various, contestant Syvan performs ballet while sticking feathered needles in her arms **PLEASE NOTE Background comments include profanity**\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Cooper, recording artist, on the acts:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think we got some pretty unique acts, I mean the ballerina was very bizarre. To me that hit home because my wife does ballet, teaches ballet, so I'm around ballet all the time. So she was a very good ballerina, on pointe. She stayed on pointe all the time. The needle thing? I'm needle phobic. I can't give a blood test - that's how needle phobic I am. Her sticking needles in her arms and balleting (sic) without even flinching? Pretty amazing.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e10. Various winning contestant Syvan performs ballet while sticking needles in her face\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Syvan, winning contestant:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Doesn't hurt at all. Not even a little bit. I am the queen of pain. I did ballet for years. I did pointe work. Nothing compares to like heavy pointe work. It's all in the mind. Pain is ninety nine percent here (points to head).\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various winning contestant Preacher lies on bed of nails\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Cooper, recording artist, on the vaudeville nature of the acts:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Any time you do this kind of vaudeville there always has to be a punchline because it is based in comedy. It is based on us going 'ooh,' you know. But the nail through the nose and all that - they're great tricks.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close up winning contestant Preacher performs nail through nose trick\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various contestant \"eats\" teddy bear\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide pan Alice Cooper with panel, to contestants\u003cbr/\u003e17.  SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Cooper, recording artist, on the panel of judges:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I loved watching them cringe. I loved watching them squeal. Here's three grown men sitting there going 'ergh,' you know. Because, you know, I can take seeing blood but it's the needle thing that gets me.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. UPSOUND Alice Cooper \"I have cousins in Tennessee who are really a lot like that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19.  Wide pan contestants to Alice Cooper speaking into microphone\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide shot photocall Alice Cooper with contestants\u003cbr/\u003eAlice Cooper auditioned some of Britain's freakiest residents in London Monday (09 AUG 2010), to join him for two Hallowe'en shows in the capital this October.\u003cbr/\u003eThe star watched as hopefuls performing at the London Dungeon ranged from a woman eating her teddy bear, to a man drinking through his nose, and an opera singer who sang while standing on a pile of broken glass.\u003cbr/\u003eCooper explained he was looking for ghoulish, shocking and weird additions to a line up which already includes Cooper himself,  Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction, and Jim Rose of the Jim Rose Circus.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well that night, it's going to be Hallowe'en, so you expect to find that. And then Jim Rose's circus is full of this kind of thing. And then Zodiac Mind Warp and Alice Cooper - that should be a pretty bizarre night.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe acts had previously submitted videos of \"sideshow and freak acts\" to the Alice Cooper website, before being invited to audition live for the star.\u003cbr/\u003eThe winners who will join Cooper at the Roundhouse this Hallowe'en include ballerina Syvan, who danced to the music of Swan Lake while sticking feathered needles into her arms as if turning them into wings.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think we got some pretty unique acts, I mean the ballerina was very bizarre,\" said Cooper. \"To me that hit home because my wife does ballet, teaches ballet, so I'm around ballet all the time. So she was a very good ballerina, on pointe. She stayed on pointe all the time. The needle thing? I'm needle phobic. I can't give a blood test - that's how needle phobic I am. Her sticking needles in her arms and balleting (sic) without even flinching? Pretty amazing.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Doesn't hurt at all. Not even a little bit,\" insisted Syvan. \"I am the queen of pain. I did ballet for years. I did pointe work. Nothing compares to like heavy pointe work. It's all in the mind.\"\u003cbr/\u003eCooper wasn't the only one squirming in his seat as he watched the performances.  \u003cbr/\u003eTo choose the winning acts he was joined by a panel of judges including Planet Rock's Nicky Horne and Time Out magazine's Tim Arthur. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I loved watching them cringe. I loved watching them squeal,\" said the singer. \"Here's three grown men sitting there going 'ergh,' you know. 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