Has Britain’s Got Talent gone to the dogs?

JULES O’DWYER, Matisse and her dogs (Mail) performed brilliantly on Britain’s Got Talent three times. Jules’s dedication is outstanding. To train one dog to a high level is excellent; to train others to a similarly high standard is excellent. Does it really matter that Jules substituted Chase for Matisse during the high-rope walk? I don’t feel duped. Let’s not tarnish the brilliance of the three performances: let’s give Jules and her dogs the ovation they have so rightly earned. Well done Jules, Matisse, Skippy and Chase, you are all magnificent. The Queen, I feel confident, will be astounded.

LIZ BEAVAN, Leicester Forest East. I THINK Jules O’Dwyer cheated in the Britain’s Got talent final, and her prize should be withdrawn. In any case, it’s a farce to have dogs in a talent competition.

ERIC BENSON, Willerby, East Yorks. I SOURCED and handled yellow Labrador puppies for Andrex TV ads for 20 years. One puppy is seen in the finished ads, but the ads are made using matching litters of puppies. No one ever complained, even when this fact was revealed in interviews and out-takes. It takes perseverance, patience and know-how to train dogs to this level. This lady is a talented trainer. She deserved to win.

PAULINE CLIFT DENNIS, Manchester. THE winner of Britain’s Got talent, Matisse and Jules O’Dwyer, won because of Matisse’s tight-rope walking — except it wasn’t Matisse but a lookalike called Chase, a stunt dog. Miss O’Dwyer expresses surprise at the reaction to a second dog performing while the public thought it was Matisse doing the wire-walk. People also complained they knew how magician Jamie Raven did his lemon trick. the point of ‘magic’ is to create an illusion and you try to work out how a trick was done. I couldn’t. so the winner and the runner-up in BGT both performed illusions: the difference is we knew that was what Jamie Raven was doing. CAROLINE MacNAUGHTON,

London SW11.