Post by Alisha Meehan on May 17, 2008 0:19:45 GMT 12
Sorry this one is a bit late.
We take a peek behind the scenes at this year's auditions...
This is a competition where a mobile phone salesman from South Wales, with wonky teeth and a 35 pound suit from Tesco, can walk on stage, sing, move the audience to tears and change his life forever. Where the good, the bad and the deluded all jostle for their 15 minutes of fame. Yes, Britain's Got Talent is back and judges Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden can't wait to find the next Paul Potts.
Having sat through some of the worst auditions they've ever seen, it's little wonder. 'It's like a horror movie sometimes,' Said Simon 'Just when you think you've seen it all, something new comes along much worse than anything you've seen before. The first few days in Blackpool were the worst I have ever seen!'
Piers may not agree with Simon on many things, but he does agree with this, 'I thought we'd stumbled on to the set of Nightmare on Elm Street by the end of those first auditions,' he laughs. 'We were expecting big things from the home of British variety, but it wasn't so much end-of-the-pier as "Chuck them off the end of the pier". The worst act, says Amanda, 'Had to be the escapologist who couldn't get out of his sack, we weren't sure if it was part of the act-in the end Ant and Dec had to rescue him!'
Other acts include a hula-hoop dance group, a mongolian contortionist and a ferret on an assault course. Word is, at least one animal act got through to the nest round...
'I love the people who come on and announce they've been whistling through their noses for 45 years and want to share this great talent witht the nation,' Says Piers.
'That's what makes this show so special-you never know what's coming, but the one I never want to see again is a woman who announced she loved me and started reading a love poem-before being howled down by the audience. She was, how can I put this...aesthetically challenged!' His co-judges, of course, found it hilarious. But if you thought Simon, Piers and Amanda can be harsh, that's nothing compared to the fourth judge-the audience.
'We had some real bear pits-the audiences were much bigger than last year,' says Piers. 'The London shows were outrageous-it was like a Roman amphitheatre with Simon as Emperor Nero, hovering his hand over his buzzer waiting for the crowd to demand someone's execution!' But no doubt, by the end of the competition the audiences will be jumping to their feet to applaud an act as amazingly talented as Paul.
We take a peek behind the scenes at this year's auditions...
This is a competition where a mobile phone salesman from South Wales, with wonky teeth and a 35 pound suit from Tesco, can walk on stage, sing, move the audience to tears and change his life forever. Where the good, the bad and the deluded all jostle for their 15 minutes of fame. Yes, Britain's Got Talent is back and judges Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden can't wait to find the next Paul Potts.
Having sat through some of the worst auditions they've ever seen, it's little wonder. 'It's like a horror movie sometimes,' Said Simon 'Just when you think you've seen it all, something new comes along much worse than anything you've seen before. The first few days in Blackpool were the worst I have ever seen!'
Piers may not agree with Simon on many things, but he does agree with this, 'I thought we'd stumbled on to the set of Nightmare on Elm Street by the end of those first auditions,' he laughs. 'We were expecting big things from the home of British variety, but it wasn't so much end-of-the-pier as "Chuck them off the end of the pier". The worst act, says Amanda, 'Had to be the escapologist who couldn't get out of his sack, we weren't sure if it was part of the act-in the end Ant and Dec had to rescue him!'
Other acts include a hula-hoop dance group, a mongolian contortionist and a ferret on an assault course. Word is, at least one animal act got through to the nest round...
'I love the people who come on and announce they've been whistling through their noses for 45 years and want to share this great talent witht the nation,' Says Piers.
'That's what makes this show so special-you never know what's coming, but the one I never want to see again is a woman who announced she loved me and started reading a love poem-before being howled down by the audience. She was, how can I put this...aesthetically challenged!' His co-judges, of course, found it hilarious. But if you thought Simon, Piers and Amanda can be harsh, that's nothing compared to the fourth judge-the audience.
'We had some real bear pits-the audiences were much bigger than last year,' says Piers. 'The London shows were outrageous-it was like a Roman amphitheatre with Simon as Emperor Nero, hovering his hand over his buzzer waiting for the crowd to demand someone's execution!' But no doubt, by the end of the competition the audiences will be jumping to their feet to applaud an act as amazingly talented as Paul.