Which face is the odd one out?

The collective gasp that greeted Susan Boyle when she opened her mouth to sing suggests we think talent cannot exist without beauty. Why?

It's unlikely Oscar Wilde would spend his Saturday evenings watching ITV1's Britain's Got Talent, if alive today.

The writer and aesthete preferred beauty pageants to talent contests, and once famously remarked: "It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly."

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