BGT breathes life into the lockdown
Wacky to wonderful set to delight armchair viewers
Keep calm and carry on is one of the most over-used phrases in the English language but chef Jamie Oliver’s take on it – keep cooking and carry on – is just what we need right now. Via footage filmed on a mobile phone by another member of his family, he takes us step-by-step through some simple yet delicious recipes perfect for the lockdown. reaction behind you and you just have to go with your gut feeling in a moment like that.
“You should never overthink it regardless of whether it’s the first day or the last day of auditions. It just felt right and when I watched
Britain’s Got Talent judges the audition it was even better than I first remembered.”
This year’s show features a dog act with a difference, the usual quota of talented kids, and an ex-royal Marine hefting a few sticks of dynamite.
Simon added: “I was bloody nervous because he had dynamite in his mouth and he was asking me to make a series of decisions.
“I was like, ‘What if this goes wrong?’ When I have thought something might actually go seriously wrong during an act I have stood up in the past and said, ‘You know what? We’re not
Jamie Oliver continuing with this’.” The rest of the judging panel – Amanda Holden, Alisha Dixon and David Walliams – are in tip-top form, yelping in fear at a daredevil motorcyclist and gasping at jaw-dropping magic acts.
Simon said the plan this year was to go back to the beginning and discover another untapped talent like the first winner Paul Potts or singer Susan Boyle.
Host Ant Mcpartlin is also raring to go. He said: “It’s quite exciting. You get this real sense of excitement about what you’re going to discover. “I tell you what’s nice as well, when you meet people where they just realise this show could change their lives.”
Britain’s Got Talent continues on ITV and Virgin Media One next Saturday night.