OHMYGOSSIP — Ant and Dec felt “a bit empty” without ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.
The TV presenting duo admitted it was “weird” not filming the show last year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, and as a result, it was “quite emotional” returning to the stage earlier this year to host the auditions.
Dec said: “It was really bizarre, because it has been an annual event for us. Every January, we’d come back from the new year and the first thing first thing we’d do was ‘BGT’ auditions. Just to not have that in the diary felt a bit empty and a bit weird.”
Ant added: “We missed the wonderful people that we get through those theatre doors. I missed the audience in the auditorium.
“That was big, because we’d done the auditions before we’d done ‘Saturday Night Takeaway’, so it was our first proper live audience for a while. It was quite emotional.”
The ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’ stars admitted there were a number of emotional moments during this year’s auditions.
Ant said: “There were a few. We surprised somebody in the audience.
“He was surprised by his daughters and was asked to come on stage and perform that day. He thought he had just come to watch the show!
“He went away for an hour or two, rehearsed, and then at the end of that session came back and performed the song. That was very emotional.”
Dec added: “That was a tear-jerker! That’s what’s amazing about BGT is that you never quite know the next act if it’s going to have you in tears, in hysterics, floods of rage because it’s not as good as you’d hoped. You just never know what emotions you’re going to feel for the next act. That’s what’s so magic about it.”
The 15th ‘BGT’ series – which will see Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, David Walliams and Alesha Dixon return as judges – will return on Saturday (16.04.22).