One of the big reasons that many people enter ITV’s Britian’s Got Talent show is because of the promise of a prominent slot in the fully televised Royal Variety Show. However the future of BGT winners appearing in the show has been thrown into doubt after a BBC insider suggested that they would not welcome the winner of an ITV show on theior channel.

In 2008 the Royal Variety Show will switch from ITV to BBC One and it is reported that BBC bosses are considering banning Britain’s Got Talent performers.

An insider commented: “I would be very surprised if we let the winner of one of ITV’s most popular shows take pride of place on BBC1.”

An ITV source said: “There’s a meeting in the diary to talk about this with the BBC. It would be silly of them to turn this down as we’ll effectively be promoting their show.”