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BGT

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Jamhamlamb · 15/04/2023 21:09

How can a dance troupe from Uganda be on BGT? Is the clue not in the title? How many actual British acts were batted back to make room for non British acts? Shocking

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MrsBennetsPoorNerves · 15/04/2023 21:10

BGT has always had acts from other countries. Nothing new.

MissMogwai · 15/04/2023 21:11

Is this your first rodeo with BGT?
Acts from all over the world audition every year.

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Jamhamlamb · 15/04/2023 21:12

Why not call it Earth's Got Talent then

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Jamhamlamb · 15/04/2023 21:12

Yes this is the first time I have watched it

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OhMyCherriePie · 15/04/2023 21:13

I don't watch it now but when I did I noticed there was a singer on from another country. Can't remember where now but seemed odd.

MandyMotherOfBrian · 15/04/2023 21:14

Jamhamlamb · 15/04/2023 21:12

Why not call it Earth's Got Talent then

Well, you could do that, but then what would these guys do?

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CastleTurrets · 15/04/2023 21:14

I had to turn it off. I just can't deal with all that virtue signalling - it's infuriating and makes it unwatchable.

Felix125 · 15/04/2023 21:20

I turned it off years ago

The judges get on my nerves - its more about them than the acts.

Then the acts who they don't put through for some bizarre reason "I just didn't understand your act" - he's a singer, he's singing you a song....!

Then they the end up putting someone through who plays a paper & comb

I prefer to watch the inside of my eyelids

Hopefully it will go the same way as X factor

foulksmills · 15/04/2023 21:22

Japanese farting man got through 🙄

VincentVaguer · 15/04/2023 21:23

They were amazing and we did say that the racists will be all over social media complaining.

Mouldyfoodhelp · 15/04/2023 21:27

Don't mind foreign acts too much as long as its a minority, but its the putting through of the acts like the farting man that annoy me.

I recorded it and fast forwarded through most of the waffle, there's not actually too many acts on show in the 90min programme

Sharkyto · 15/04/2023 21:30

Did brexit teach you nothing? We don’t have enough talent here, we have to recruit from abroad.

Jokes aside, those kids were amazing and deserved an opportunity.

AmyDudley · 15/04/2023 21:31

I presume the B in BGT refers to the host nation (In the style of 'the US Open' etc) not who can take part. In any case it is clear that actually B doesn't have very much T, so obviously in order to find an act worthy of putting before our beloved King, they have to trawl a bit further afield.
I thought the kids from Uganda were talented and cute as hell, everything else tonight was rubbish (although I missed the little Irish boy so he may have been good)

girlfriend44 · 15/04/2023 21:32

Thought they'd given up with this rubbish programme.

Felix125 · 15/04/2023 21:35

The farting man is just typical - they will be really critical over certain acts, but yet they put him through....?

Or some old bloke comes on and sings - and he sounds like some drunk in your local pub at the end of the night - but he goes through

Or some 90 year old dancer who can hardly move

The whole thing is just so contrived....

DrMarciaFieldstone · 15/04/2023 21:38

BGT is useful in that if anyone asks you if you watched it on Saturday night, you can use that as a sign to avoid that person.

Meredusoleil · 15/04/2023 21:40

Mouldyfoodhelp · 15/04/2023 21:27

Don't mind foreign acts too much as long as its a minority, but its the putting through of the acts like the farting man that annoy me.

I recorded it and fast forwarded through most of the waffle, there's not actually too many acts on show in the 90min programme

I agree.

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