Most girls of her age would be playing games with their friends or practising things they have learnt in school.
But not nine-year-old Jesse Jane McParland, who prefers playing with swords.Despite her young age, Miss McParland is already a world champion kick boxer, with an astonishing 117 martial arts titles under her belt.
Her first movie Martial Arts Kid, also starring Cynthia Rothrock and Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson, will be released this year, and in July she will start filming a film called Awakening with teen heartthrob Zac Efron.
Now she is hoping to add Britain’s Got Talent winner to her trophy collection after impressing the judges and audience with her incredible sword-wielding audition...continue..
You wouldn’t guess it coming from the slight, blonde-hair girl, who appeared on the BGT stage to a chorus of ‘ah’s from the audience on Saturday night. She told the judging panel she was there with ‘my daddy’ Gary, 36, – prompting more coos – because ‘my mummy’s at home looking after my two younger sisters’.Miss McParland received a standing ovation and praise from all of the judges, including the notoriously hard to please Simon Cowell who joked he wanted her to become his bodyguard.
And hundreds of the 8.19 million viewers who tuned in to watch BGT on Saturday night took to Twitter to share their surprise.‘Jesse from BGT had me in tears. That was amazing! #BGT,’ wrote one. Another posted: ‘Jesse showed us how to get 4 yeses guaranteed!!’
Miss McParland has been practicing martial arts since the age of three, after deciding she wasn’t interested in the more traditional pastimes her mother wanted her to try such as ballet.
Last year she added sword work to her list of skills including kickboxing, kung fu and Tae Kwon Do, with which she has competed and won awards all over the world.
She trains with her coach Sensei Gary Kelly in Ireland four times a week, as well as master Jeff Scott in the UK.
And Miss McParland, who is the World Association of Kick Boxing junior world champion and stars in upcoming film Martial Arts Kid, is now hopeful for an Olympic career.
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