A pensioners choir have spoken out about the treatment they received whilst auditioning for ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent.

The Ebbw Vale Male Voice Choir were invited to try out by bosses of the show and spent £250 getting to the auditions.

However, they were made to wait for seven hours once they arrived and only performed for thirty seconds before meeting the harsh criticism of the judges.

“It was a nightmare,” chairman David Jenkins told the Daily Star Sunday. “We were made to queue for hours and kept in a holding room packed full of people. Luckily I had told everyone to bring food and drink. If it wasn’t for our supplies we would have been keeling over. There weren’t even enough seats.”

“We had an absolutely horrible time,” he continued. “This sort of thing is not something we would usually do but we were invited, so we went along. The worst part was when Simon told our pianist, who is 72 and has been our accompanist all her life – that she looked like she was going to go through the piano because he thought she was too loud.”

David concluded: “It was like we were set up as comedy entertainment on this. If we are invited on TV again, we will definitely not go.”