At the Manchester Opera House, Ant and Dec bring on Stephen Mulhern, then introduce Piers Morgan, Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell.
We waited for two hours outside, but it was definitely worth it for the experience. There were acts ranging from the two brothers (singing Somewhere from West Side Story which in fairness has started to become a little bit overused) and a girl bouncing on a pogo stick playing a guitar (badlY) and a taxi driver butchering Sandy.
Apologies for the drop in the audio (it is a camera phone and there was so much screaming!), the blurry picture which was due to having to use the digital zoom since we were pretty far back in the stalls (although Debz was in a great seat for shaking Simon Cowell's hand) and my hand shaking.
Definitely lots of boos and "Off, Off, Off" and I lost count of the number of times we were standing up, sitting down, standing up etc (we all had to do it if other people started getting up).
Simon was the only one (that I could see anyway) to shake people's hands. Stephen definitely did NOT want to be touched (although a bloke a few rows down from us smacked his arse).
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If you don't want to watch the bits inbetween the judges coming up to the stage, then flick to:-
Stephen Mulhern - 1:17
Piers Morgan - 2:50
Amanda HOlden - 3:25
Simon Cowell - 4:10
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Btw, the guy standing to the left of Piers Morgan is Nigel Hall, an executive producer for BGT as well as a few other shows.
the sound is dreadful!
katushka182 1 year ago
I was at this session,some good acts on the way but some dreadful ones also
wirechick 2 years ago