The day has finally arrived. Britain’s Got Talent is back on screens for another year of the good, the bad and the downright weird.
Series 13 kicked off tonight with a whole host of talent to get stuck into, including the first golden buzzer of the series.
The show also marked a special moment in Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly’s career as they reunited for the first time in a year following McPartlin’s brief hiatus from TV. The star took a step back from his work commitments last year, including the BGT live week, to focus on his recovery from addiction.
Here are five of the best auditions from the first episode of Britain’s Got Talent:
The Queen
Good evening, Your Majesty.
Okay, so it wasn’t Queen Elizabeth II, but a comedy act with a right royal address for the viewing nation. The 92-year-old had the audience and the judges in hysterics and she took aim at the powerful quartet with her quick-witted quips.
The “brutal” act – as branded so by Alesha Dixon – got four yeses, with almost everyone secretly hoping that act gets to meet the real Monarch.
Jimmy Tamley
The 64-year-old, from Devon, immediately got Amanda Holden and David Walliams involved with his act as he hauled them up onto the stage to wear some scary looking mouth masks. Within seconds, Jimmy had Walliams showing off his ballet dancing and his skipping, while Walliams looked like he wanted the ground to swallow him up.
Somehow, even with Simon Cowell looking horrified as Walliams took his kit off, Jimmy managed to get four yeses.
The Haunting
This was creepy from the off, as “just Elisabeth” took her one-woman frightening magic act to the Palladium with a horrifying monologue about ghosts in the walls. She then took Holden for a walk around the theatre and down into the basement.
Holden screamed her head off as she travelled through the trick, which we won’t ruin by detailing, but perhaps the most amazing illusion was the magician changing her own damn face.
Dixon branded it “the most terrifying act” while Holden said that it was “horrific”. Four yeses. They'll have to put the Royal Variety during daylight hours if she wins.
Flakefleet Primary School
The cute group, aged 5-11 years old, were the recipients of the first golden buzzer of the series when Walliams sent the school straight through to the semi-finals.
The energetic routine moved the judges to tears as they jumped about in time to Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now, dressed up in fancy dress and with enough props to make Strictly proud.
The Vardanyan Brothers
If you thought the magic act was terrifying, it had nothing on this acrobatic duo who popped by for a spot of sword balancing.
Cowell found himself unable to watch, especially after it looked as though it was about to go horribly wrong. He later branded it the “most dangerous act” ever seen on the show, admitting that he nearly put a stop to it before somebody got hurt.
Four yeses and a whole lot of shot nerves.
Britain’s Got Talent is on ITV, Saturday at 8pm
