John Evans is strong, we can’t deny that, however it seems that his physical prowess alone wasn’t enough to wow David Hasselhoff when he tried out for Britain’s Got Talent earlier this year.

The 64 year old retired builder showed up in Manchester and explaining his act to Ant and Dec said:

‘On the building site you can only get 12 bricks in the hod, so I developed this technique where I could stack 20 bricks, lift them up and put them on my head and run up the ladders all day long. Today I’m going to balance some gorilla tubs on my head. I’m going to balance 20 on my head. The equivalent weight is something like 18 stone on my head. Nobody else in the world can do what I do. It would mean such a lot to my life to perform in the Royal Variety Show.’

He then went on stage and decided to start with a sob story to see if it would win him any favours. He told the panel:

I‘m John, I’m 64, I’m a diabetic and I’ve only got one eye.

David Hasselhoff candidly remarked:

Well this is going to be fun.

John then went on to lift the 20 gorilla tubs onto his head and balanced them there whilst slowly moving around to the iconic song, Eye of the Tiger. To make the routine even more interesting (and we have to admit….it really wasn’t!) John then lifed his t-shirt and slapped his belly in time to the music.

Afterwards The Hoff was not impressed and asked:

That’s it? The act is balancing yellow buckets on your head?

A disgruntled looking John replied:

That’s all I do, I thought it would be very entertaining.

Michael McIntyre comes to his rescue and praises Evans saying:

The audience obviously enjoy the buckets on the head act and I can’t deny that I am desperate to see you balance more things on your head.

He adds:

David, this is Britain, you need to lower your expectations.

So with a no from The Hoff, a yes from Michael, how will Amanda vote on John’s act? Tune in tomorrow night at 8PM to find out!