Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
BGT JUDGE BRUNO
People have really moved me this series. But that is a response that I have naturally BRUNO TONIOLI ON BEING UNABLE TO HOLD BACK TEARS ON JUDGING PANEL
Britain’s Got Talent judge Bruno Tonioli makes a point of wearing sunglasses almost everywhere he goes. But it’s not because he wants to look like an aloof celebrity. It’s because he’s trying to hide the fact that he’s always bursting into tears.
The TV star, 68, is consoled by pal Simon Cowell when he sobs once again on tonight’s BGT as he watches a group of young dancers called Phoenix Boys.
The Italian tells the Mirror: “People have really moved me this series. But that is a response that I have naturally anyway.
“When I go to the theatre it’s the same. I went to see Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard and I was literally sobbing in my seat.
“I went to see James Norton doing A Little Life. Again, I was a mess, crying my eyes out.
“When you see someone creating magic, it moves you in a certain way, I cry. At the opera, I cry. At the
cinema, I cry. But what makes me cry is they’re so good.
“It triggers something inside of me and I can’t help it. At the opera, if it’s good, I’m a mess. I have to go with dark glasses so no one can see me afterwards.”
Bruno, who judges alongside Alesha Dixon and Amanda Holden as well as Simon, wept once again during a BGT audition last week.
Blind couple Stefan and Denise, who has recovered from cancer, sang Climb Every Mountain.
Bruno said through tears on the panel: “I’m a mess, this show is killing me, I can’t bear it.”
He says now: “There were so many levels to that. I learned something from them, I definitely did. I