When 10-year-old Oliver Stewart entered a contest to dance beside his idol Justin Bieber during his world tour, he didn’t think he would actually win.
Thousands of children entered the competition when the global superstar’s choreographer, Nick DeMoura, put a routine online and invited children to post themselves performing it on YouTube.
The winners would dance beside Justin in front of 70,000 people at Hyde Park.
The crowd at Hyde Park on Sunday, July 2
Just last week, to Oliver’s “surprise and delight”, he found out he had won the opportunity of a lifetime.
Mum Lindsey showed him the email after school.
He said: “I couldn't believe what I was reading.
“I was in a dream for the next couple of days- I was in a state of shock.
“Friends and family were so happy for me and asked if I could get an autograph for them.
“People kept asking me was I nervous but I wasn’t because this is what I love to do and I couldn’t wait to meet my idol.”
Oliver, a music lover who has been dancing since he could walk, got up on stage with five other kids.
When they finished the routine, performed during hit ‘Children’, Justin fist-pumped Oliver and said: “You’re a star bud.”
Justin hugged all the kids individually, calling on the massive crowd to cheer for each one.
Oliver said he had tears in his eyes when his idol called him a star
Oliver said: “I wanted to cry with tears of happiness- inside I was jumping up and down because Justin Bieber called me a star.
“Did this really happen to a 10-year-old street dancer from Battersea?
“Yes it did, my dream came true.”
They even had their own bodyguard Rhino
On top of dancing with his hero on stage, Oliver unexpectedly met another famous face.
He said: “When we came off stage the audience gave us high fives and we carried on dancing to the remaining songs.
“Then someone tapped me on the shoulder to dance with me- it was Brooklyn Beckham.”
Oliver and Brooklyn Beckham
After the evening of a lifetime, mum, dad, Oliver and little brother Teddy stopped at McDonald's on the way home - then it was home to bed for school in the morning.
Oliver does street-dancing and loves art. He wants to be a choreographer, photographer or artist in the future.
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