Britain’s Got Talent 2011: Michael McIntyre worried that this will be ‘worst year’ yet?
Michael McIntrye is reportedly worried that viewers will be disappointed by the calibre of acts appearing on this year’s Britain’s Got Talent.
The comedian joined the ITV show earlier this year, after Piers Morgan left to host his own CNN chat show and Simon Cowell decided he would miss the audition stages, so he could concentrate on his new American X Factor series. Former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff joins him and Amanda Holden on the judging panel.
The reality TV series returns to our screens this Saturday night and insiders say Michael is concerned that there will be no one worthy of the winners title.
A source told The People:
“He’s concerned there won’t be a decent winner this year and the level of talent has shocked him – to say the least.”
“Obviously the public want daft acts at the start for a laugh. But in the final everyone wants quality talent – and there isn’t any. Michael’s watched the show since it started five years ago and reckons this could be the worst year for a winner because they had to sift through so much rubbish to find anyone half-decent.”
“But he doesn’t regret joining the panel – he loves working with David and Amanda and thinks there’s really good chemistry between them.”
The insider added: “Michael thought it would be easy to find some good acts out of the thousands they see – but he said it felt like he was banging his head against a brick wall. He hopes to be proved wrong.”
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Something does not ring true here…
I was invited onto the show with my Act, Mazeppa Cossacks. We auditioned at Manchester Opera House. We received a standing ovation from the entire audience AND a standing ovation from the judges.
McIntyre said, ‘I cannot believe what I have just seen…I am in shock…I could watch you guys again and again and again’.
The Hoff said, ‘This show is about you guys, you nailed it, no pretence, no gimmicks, awesome, you are going to go a long way in this show…’,
Amanda said, ‘You guys were BLOODY ACE, I can see you doing commercials, Videos etc…’
Yesterday, reading from a script without looking at us, (nor did The Hoff and Amanda) McIntyre uncomfortably said that we were not going through to the live Semi Finals – no reason was given…!
We know the acts that are going through, some of which received negative comments in their auditions and ‘No’s'!
Forgive my dis taste, but it seems backstage politics are driving the show and not the talent in front of the judges, unless of course there is an ulterior agenda.
This article is an insult to all the very talented people that have auditioned…just the producers want good television and novelty acts that people can laugh at.
As if Michael, Amanda and The Hoff have sat sifting through 40,000 auditions. I dont even believe they have picked the people for the semi finals.
This program is a joke.
This has to be the biggest amount of spin I have ever read. Yesterday, scores of incredibly talented youngsters who received three yes’s and standing ovations at the stage 2 auditions, were turned away from the Hammersmith Apollo.
I was there with my own teenager, who incidentally went down so well at the theatre audition that a senior producer came to find us, and compliment us. A lady in the audience also felt compelled to tell me, that she thought my child’s performance was another ‘Susan Boyle’ moment. Even I, without my rose tinted specs, could see it was a blow away performance. So it was a particularly bitter pill to swallow as I comforted my teenager, being turned away.
Whilst waiting at the Apollo, we also heard of others, who had also received three yes’s and who had been asked not to come to yesterday’s reveal, which leads me to believe this is one huge deception. The truth is that Simon cannot make money out of kids, despite their mountain of talent, until they are 16, so he doesn’t want them. Working around schooling and the recent changes concerning chaperone regulations, make it too problematic for him.
BGT is ITV’s flagship show, so it is duty bound to maintain huge ratings, in order to guarantee the money stream from the advertisers. Once the show has lined up the mandatory cross section of society, real talent gets pushed way down the list. I am now in no doubt that what BGT really wants is a very small amount of the good, with much more of the bad and the really ugly.
When we walked away yesterday, we left behind a wacky array of people, many of whom had entered BGT on a whim and yet they answered the shows self-styled demo-graphics. So, when Michael Macintyre says he is worried about the lack of talent, do not believe a word because true talent is being turned away in droves and he knows it. I am amazed he can even sleep at night.
Maybe there weren’t enough sob stories this year to melt the judges hearts or wow the TV production company.
I have no doubt lots of talented people will have been turned down for the shows many of them at the production auditions stage wothout getting to the judges.
I know some truly talented singers who were turned away at the production co audition stage in both 2008 and 2009, and I also believe one or two made it to the judges audition stage but their auditions weren’t televised.
In fact in the year BGT started there were some singers better than the winner in the competition but unfortunately their stories didn’t grab the production company enough.
The two people I’m thinking of here work in the industry at regional level, professional opera company and musical theatre company. But neither of them are know outside of there region which is why so many singers go in for it.
Of the young people I know who were turned away two of the four who entered two years ago are now working towards recording contracts. But they seem a bit slow in getting off the ground.