Simon Cowell has branded new judge Bruno Tonioli's former role on Strictly Come Dancing as 'boring'.
Bruno, 67, became the newest member of the Britain's Got Talent panel alongside music mogul Simon, and fellow judges Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon earlier this year.
Discussing Bruno's exciting new venture Simon, 63, said Britain’s Got Talent will be a much more exciting path for the Italian choreographer in comparison to his long stint on Strictly.
Speaking about the ITV1 show and it's new panel recently, Simon said: “When you’re doing Strictly, all you’ve got is a bat or something, right? That’s boring.
“This is a punctuation mark, which is the red buzzer. He was like a kid having these things to press while he was judging.
“I think he found that having those, the whole process was easier. I reckon he probably wished he had a red buzzer on Strictly.
“There’s a few celebrities he would have liked to have buzzed off, I bet," he told The Sun.
Bruno was a judge on Strictly for 18 years before quitting in 2022 when he was replaced by professional dancer, Anton DuBeke.
It comes after Bruno talked about the big mistake he made on his first day on the job.
Bruno, who is taking over from David Walliams, said being a judge on the show did not come naturally to him as he admits he made a blunder on his first day by pressing the golden buzzer too early.
Each year every judge and hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly get a golden buzzer which they press when they are particularly impressed by an act.
That act then goes straight through to the live shows.
However, Bruno has admitted than due to not watching the show before, he pressed the button too early.
"I told Simon, I never watched the show before. But I never watch anything I’m in, I never even watched Strictly or Dancing With the Stars. I want to feel free to give it my own personal spin, not copy what someone before me has done, if that makes sense," he told.
Bruno explained that even though he was given some instructions about how the show works, he still go carried away in the moment.
"Alesha gave me a brief, but then I forgot everything she told me! I think that was obvious when I pressed my golden buzzer at the wrong time on the first day," he told The Mirror.
"They were like, 'here are the rules, you press it then, not then', but that went out the window, I honestly got caught up in the moment, forgot everything I’d been told and just reacted instinctively," he said.
