Piers Morgan Says Britiain’s Got Talent Does Not Exploit
Britain’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan has hit out at people claiming that his show and others of its kind exploit it’s contestants and their obvious lack of talent.
The judge told The Times that the programme does not encourage viewers to “mock the afflicted”.
Morgan said: “We don’t exploit anybody. If we feel someone is losing it we stop filming. My role in the British one is to be a foil for Cowell. In America I play the villain.”
I would challenge Piers to watch the clip below and tell me that Donald wasn’t exploited for TV audiences. Bear in mind that Donald made it through thousands of hopefuls, past the producers auditions and on to the judges round and why? Because he is a good singer? I think not!
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April 8th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
If that was not taking the p**s I’d hate to see when they are. Ant & Dec were encouraging him and Piers well he was applauding him but laughing AT him, then letting him sing more, disgusting behaviour. That was exploitation with a capital E
April 10th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
I’m going to play partial devils advocate here.
Yep that was taking the p * * s. Donald can’t sing and never will sing. Techincally his vocal chords aren’t developed enough to sing and considering he is already in his late teens I doubt whether they ever will.
Donald is an example of that growing breed of contestant who are just trying their luck because they appear to have nothing else in their lives. Woo so they make a desperate attempt at something outragious thinking fame fortune money here I come.
Piers knows this and was merely allowing the poor misguided youth to have his 30 seconds of fame. For all we know that 30 seconds of television time could well be something he recalls to aunts and uncles when reminising over the past.
Unfortunately what is the big shame about this is that Donald is one of thousands who get through to talent shows with no talent, who take the place of Genuinely talented and gifted people.
The irony here is that the audience in clapping and singing with the young Donald have been misunderstood, they are being believe it or not a considerate audience as this kind of behaviour helps calm the nerves of wanabe auditionees. The misunderstanding is that they didn’t really enjoy it. If Donald had been left up to long this audience would have turned so Piers sensed this.
Unfortunately I know I like Piers – but I think he should have been honest and told him not to try singing.