Amanda Holden thought she was going to be fired after shocking moment on Britain’s Got Talent panel
AMANDA Holden admitted she feared for her job on Britain’s Got Talent after her daughter Hollie stormed the panel.
On Sunday’s episode, 12-year-old Hollie was joined by Simon Cowell’s son Eric, 10, as they jumped up onto the panel and slammed the golden buzzer button.
Amanda looked visibly horrified when Hollie and Eric appeared and sent Japanese double dutch dancers Haribow through to the live BGT semi-finals.
Sharing the clip on Instagram, Amanda later wrote: “I mean … I thought I was going to get fired as it was so unexpected my #HRH & Eric x even @simoncowell was wobbled but they have the first ever audience GOLDEN BUZZER”
The moment came after Haribow received a standing ovation from the audience and uproaring pleas for them to get a golden buzzer, despite all the judges already using theirs.
Until this game-changing moment, Ant and Dec, plus judges Amanda, Simon, Alesha Dixon and Bruno Tonioli, were allowed only one each per series, so had to choose carefully.
But in the case of Haribow, the audience chanted so loudly for the Golden Buzzer that the judges couldn’t be heard even when using their microphones.
“I’ve never ever heard a reaction like that,” Simon said, with his words being subtitled on screen.
“My son is literally going crazy right now,” he added.
Alesha said she had “none left” regarding the buzzers along with Tonioli, while Cowell said that he “did not know what to say”.
He eventually relented, turn to the kids who were sitting in the audience and said, “You do it”, which they gladly did.
After they left the stage, Simon told the audience: “I’m going to give this one to all of you.”
On Amanda’s post about the newly created ‘audience buzzer’, Spencer Morgan, Piers Morgan’s son, was clearly jealous as he wrote: “Wish kids golden buzzer was a thing when dad was a judge.”
Piers was an original judge of Britain’s Got Talent, and appeared on the show from 2007 to 2010.
However, some fans were less favourable, accusing the show of ‘staging’ the moment.
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- Opera singer Innocent Masuku is currently starring in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at the London Coliseum.
- Bobby Finn, an amateur comedian from Massachusetts, is a TikTok star who already has 650,000 followers.
- Sydnie Christmas, who earned Amanda’s golden buzzer, has starred in Starlight Express in Bochum, Germany, and Lazarus at London’s King’s Cross Theatre.
- Geneviève Côté, who left viewers dumbstruck with her wildlife impersonations and singing, has appeared on THREE other Got Talents, even winning a golden buzzer from Howie Mandel in Canada.
- Harrison Pettman, aged 22, wowed the Britain’s Got Talent crowds with his singing voice, but has professionally trained at the Brits School, Bird Academy and Centre Stage Theatre Academy.
- Britain’s Got Talent bosses also concocted act The Witch from scratch to put before the judges this year.
- Taryn Charles – who won Bruno Tonioli’s golden buzzer – appeared on ITV series Starstruck last year.
- Serbat Troupe – the Kazakhstan stunt performers fell in the middle of their dangerous balancing act on stairs, but fans claimed it was faked for the tension.
- Itzel Salvatierra – the acrobat wowed audiences with her loop routine, but she’s previously been part of Cirque Du Soleil.
- Denise and Stefan – Denise was previously the winner of Channel 4’s Operatunity and had performed with the English National Opera