AGT Crowns A Winner!

Talk about a Cinderella story!!

55-year-old Richard Goodall has been a janitor at Chauncey Rose Middle School in Terre Haute, IN for 23 years, and after a clip of him singing at a school talent show hit TikTok…his world changed!  He wound up getting on a plane for the first time, wowing the America’s Got Talent crowd (and Heidi Klum who gave him the Golden Buzzer)…all the way TO THE FINALS. AND LOOK WHAT JUST HAPPENED!

He recently married his longtime partner, Ang, who is excited “I’m getting my house!” with his $1 million grand prize!  But is he quitting his job?  Nope. At least not yet.“Then we’ll see what opportunities come our way and then Angie and I will make those decisions together.”

For now, he’s just so happy living this dream! “The audition, I was flying out by the seat of my pants. Never been on a plane, never been west of Missouri, and I was just going to fly out, sing a song, fly back home, and maybe tell somebody I was on the show and have a little YouTube video like everyone else,” Goodall explained to PEOPLE. “Never dreamed [of this].”

“There’s bucket lists and then there’s top-shelf bucket lists,” he added. “You didn’t even know it was up there on top of the shelf. This is absolute, a bucket list [item] that I couldn’t even [think] of or dreamed.”

CONGRATULATIONS RICHARD!