BGT 2024...

[Elderflower14]

Here we go!!

I'd love them to win

Why didn't they get the golden buzzer

I honestly thought when Bruno started tearing up, that he would press the buzzer. Very unlike him not to tbh!

Poor Bruno he was in bits 😂

I find magic acts unspeakably dull.

Just starting now and listened to choir for maybe few seconds and ff

The singing choirs note me. Even kids. Sorry

Likes spiny lady

And robotic dog was funny

David Croft /<footloose ok

James. Another singer awful

Captors beany ha ha ha

Nabe voice reminds me of the residential alien And his voice

But loved the hair tricks

Esp Simons chest hair Pmsl

But not sure worthy of GB

How many GB are they allowed each

Sure that's more than 5

Ditto

I loved the magician the other week

Liked this one as well

Oh. The blind couple

As much as don't like singers on bgt

She was amazing. Her voice

That should have been the GB

but no reason why they can't get into the final

Re the GB's ...

I am sure during an intro thing they did Simon said rules has been changed and they now all had 2 GB each .

So according to my basic maths skills ....errr....

4 more GB 's up for grabs ? 🤔

The Climb Every Mountain singer ...(really don't want to define her as the blind lady ) was more deserving of a GB than others .

The kids screechy... choir ...😮...that was FF.....very fast !! 😅..

There are only 2 more audition episodes before semi I think 🤔?

I still can't believe the blind couple didn't get a gold buzzer

Me too. Can't believe they gave it to that daft 'hair' impressionist. That's a party trick, not a bloody class act that the KING AND QUEEN would want to watch!

Denise gave me Subo vibes. I had goosebumps listening to her. AWESOME voice!

Call me cynical, but I suspect they have gone on a scouting trip to Japan and flown some acts over to audition. They then either don't want to pay for them to come over again before the finals, or they have promised them a golden buzzer as part of the deal. The blind couple just need to be given the train fare from wherever they live ( although tbf I've booked a flight to India for the price of a UK train fare!)

Yep the cynic in me was thinking the gold buzzers are going to the scouted acts

Ds2 and I were guests at Percy Pigs birthday party at Fulham Palace in 2022 and he was the magician..
It also transpires that ds2 knows some of his relations through the deaf world!

I am watching on catch up through insomnia

Why do I even bother watching this show year after year?

RANT AHEAD

Do people actually like the fake audience reactions, judges chats and cringey skits at the start?! So annoying!

Why do the judges sit with their gobs wide open at the most mediocre of acts? Is their filler dragging their faces down? Or bellow HA HA HA HA HA at things that are barely amusing like someone holding a sign up with a pun on it.

The dance group acts can FTFO. Boring, and they’ll never be Diversity. Groups where they have 200 precocious children in pigtails and massive grins can especially FTFO

Screaming singers - yawn

Little girls singing poorly from musicals - bigger yawn

Circus acts. I don’t get it. Spellbound a few years ago were great but I just don’t find a woman spinning in a hoop entertaining. It’s the kind of pre-dinner entertainment you get at a business award dinner.

The judges standing up at every single act. Have they got wedgies or something? That used to be only reserved for REALLY good acts.

Even worse - judges (Amanda) standing up and screaming whilst pointing in the air because someone made themselves look like a Teletubby

The fact they nearly had the hilarious Alan Carr but plumped for Bruno

A mediocre act getting the golden buzzer because of a sob story rather than raw talent

The whole “visit an act to surprise them that they have an audition”. Why? People don’t like favouritism and these acts never do well in the semis

The shoving down the throat with woke messages. Did ITV learn nothing from last year’s winners that people are sick of it and voted for the crap act in protest?

Where is the talent this year? The last time I could think of an act that I absolutely adored was the fella who won in lockdown with his piano comedy song. Brilliant, and touching and authentic. Now it’s just boards of squawking children screaming during the audition, robots and bad singers.

Id love to see a show choir, or a really funny comedian, or a cracking impressionist. I remember one year a fella did a Kevin from Corrie impression and it was just brilliant. I normally love magic but the acts are so same and I find it really obvious how they do their tricks.

Only one I quite enjoyed was the weekend singer - impressed it’s his own song!

im hoping the weekend is better

It's really bad this year. I love a bit of shite, easy watching TV but this is surpassing even my tolerance levels.

How did he do the photo/car /watch trick then ?

I love magicians

He just had to make sure Simon picked those two pictures.

it would have invoked some trickery with the bag where 2 compartments would have had only those pictures in. Maybe swapped from when the other judges picked.

The watch he just had to slip to an audience member who popped it in the car whilst he was faffing around with the dog tag reveal

I didn’t actually mind that magician, you can’t knock a tryer, finding Simon’s old car is dedication!

Oh. That sounds simple 😂

And could have been any car with his reg on it

If someone found a green fiesta with my
Number plate as my first car I wouldn't think was the car

But rather one same with a fake plate

True!

Id love it if someone showed me my first car, it was a bright yellow Fiat, the worst car I’ve ever owned but also by far my favourite. I saw her years after I sold her in a car park and told the young girl getting into it “OMG this was my first car this is so cool”. She gave me a look like I had 3 heads and drove off

Does Amanda really have to cackle like a 90 year old woman?

I liked him. I mean, everyone knows magic isn't real, so logically some form of trickery involved. So it's just about the spectacle. Although normally I hate magicians!

I like Amanda but the overly articulate laugh is 100% something she’s developed since Alesha came on the panel. When she was the only woman she didn’t laugh like that. Also the excessive arm throwing and pointing gets on my nerves.

Spot on @YaMuvva I'm sick of them treating the public like mugs who think we believe all their clap trap.

Stop with the into (means we can see more acts)

Stop with going to "surprise" them as like you say it suggests favourites

Stop being so trigger happy with the gold buzzer, you're defeating the point of it, and stop giving it to scouted acts. The only 2 I'd have given it to so far this series was the blind couple, and the taekwondo act. Maybe the lady with the hoop

Stop giving multiple slots to duff acts that aren't funny (the fish and the drone)

Stop the judges being so over the top while the acts are performing, it's taking attention away from the acts themselves. Amanda, who I don't usually mind, seems especially over the top this year, including as said, the cackling at something that really isn't that funny

If you're going to scout acts, have a separate category for them, and have it so both winners can perform (scouted and not scouted). Stop trying to pretend they aren't by portraying them as nervous/just popped for a wee oooh why haven't they come back?! Just stop.

Stop with the flipping sob stories, I think each person should come on, say I'm X, I work as an x and I'm going to do X then just get on with it. I think it was a big part in why there was such an unfunny winner last season, the majority of people are sick of sob stories. I think that's why the blind couple were so refreshing they didn't sell their disability as a woe is me. Likewise I don't actually care if some of the dancers have a disability, I'm watching the act as a whole, they're part of the act and they're being included, great, we don't need to keep hearing about it

The judges need to stop being so influenced by the audience screaming push that gold (did they used to be that rowdy?) the whole point of having judges is the judges decide

Also why do so many dances or songs have to have a message? I'm watching for the entertainment not to have yet another message/lecture rammed down my throat.

I think it needs a rest for a couple of years because we are at the point of just going over the same ground, and there's more foreign acts than British ones to the point they're being flown in specially