{"id":601353,"date":"2026-04-12T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601353\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T04:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:10:14","slug":"britains-got-talent-viewers-emotional-as-judges-tear-up-during-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601353\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s Got Talent viewers ’emotional’ as judges tear up during performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s Got Talent viewers<\/a> were taken aback on Saturday night after an ’emotional’ performance brought the judges to tears.<\/p>\n

It comes as Simon Cowell and his fellow judges<\/a> – Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and KSI – returned to Blackpool for another round of auditions alongside iconic hosts Ant and Dec.<\/p>\n

Last year, it was young magician Harry Moulding who won over the public vote and secured the big win as well as a place at the Royal Variety Show.<\/p>\n

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Now, thousands have auditioned for the hit ITV<\/a> series with the hopes of performing in front of the Royal Family<\/a> themselves and securing the \u00a3250,000 prize.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, April 11, breast clinic nurse Joan Thomas, 56, soared through to the semi finals with four solid yes’s after performing a beautiful rendition of Pie Jesu.<\/p>\n

Giving feedback after her audition, Alesha said: “It felt very pure,” Simon said<\/a>: “It was a great audition. Very simple, beautifully sung.” And KSI said: “You should be so proud, and your family should be so proud.”<\/p>\n

Ant and Dec told Joan that during her performance, you could have heard a pin drop in the room.<\/p>\n

Viewers raced to social media after Joan’s performance.<\/p>\n

Over on X, formerly Twitter<\/a>, @2001joe_mendy said: “You could hear a pin drop. The whole auditorium feel silent during that performance.”<\/p>\n

@CliveinEngland added: “All emotional now as we played this at my Mother’s funeral in February 2020.”<\/p>\n

Britain’s Got Talent fan @HarleyHannah07 said: “Wow! She was amazing. Effortless.”, and @SocialMediaJon1 queried: “Hang on No golden buzzer for Joan?”<\/p>\n

@blue_laur11 added: “Joan Thomas !! Wow that voice is beautiful not only are you nurse which for that alone you get a clap”<\/p>\n

Elsewhere during the show on Saturday night, youth worker Ren DMC auditioned with his personal diss track about the judges which included throwing shade at Alesha for being a ‘Temu version of Spice Girls’, and roasted KSI for his boxing, acting and music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Got Talent viewers were taken aback on Saturday night after an ’emotional’ performance brought the judges to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[249733,58344,173717,64,63,292840,134,293106,293105,12980,6342,221467,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-601353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-alesha-dixon","9":"tag-amanda-holden","10":"tag-ant-and-dec","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-britain39s-got-talent","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-fellow-judges","16":"tag-joan-thomas","17":"tag-ksi","18":"tag-performance","19":"tag-simon-cowell","20":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}