Australia’s Got Talent’s Jack Vidgen returns to music six years after winning the show

HE FAMOUSLY won Australia’s Got Talent as a baby-faced 14-year-old and a massive six years later, Jack Vidgen is headed back to the music scene.

Australia's Got Talent winner Jack Vidgen performs after winning the show.

IT WAS way back in 2011 when Jack Vidgen won Australia’s Got Talent as a baby-faced 14-year-old with his incredible covers of powerhouse ballads and now, six years later, the talented Aussie singer is returning to show business.

Vidgen immediately became the favourite to win after he auditioned with Whitney Houston’s huge I Have Nothing and less than three months later he’d won the show, releasing an album which debuted at number three on the ARIA charts.

Vudgen’s debut album Yes I Am was certified Gold.

When Vidgen turned 16 he headed over to the US to try and crack the elusive American market but after two years there, he returned home to work in an aged-care home.

After returning to Australia, Vidgen shunned the spotlight tellingThe Morning Showyesterday he left the music industry because he “wasn’t enjoying it anymore”.

“It was a really full-on and amazing couple years, straight after the show,” the now 20-year-old told Larry Edmur and Kylie Gillies.

“I was craving a bit of normality and normal teenage life, so I had a few years off and I really got to experience that.

“I made a conscious decision to step back and work on myself,” he added.

Vidgen sat down with Kylie Gillies and Larry Edmur.

The 20-year-old singer has grown up a lot since a 2015 interview where he told New Idea he’d quit show business because he didn’t like being famous.

“Back then, my goal was to be a music star,” said Vidgen.

“Now my goal is not to be a star. It turns out, I really don’t enjoy fame.”

“The first couple of years, I got pretty big-headed and full of myself for a while. That was one of the main reasons I stopped — I had to pull my head in,” he added.

Vidgen as an 18-year-old. Picture: Richard Dobson

Vidgen is now back in the studio to work on music he describes as “dark pop” and has garnered a solid Instagram following, regularly posting selfies.