Jeremy Clarkson admitted he had been left in tears when his choir received the golden buzzer on ITV competition Britain’s Got Talent. The Hawkstone Choir appeared on the programme during last night’s episode (March 21), receiving a standing ovation from the audience and causing judge Amanda Holden to reach over to slam the golden buzzer, sending them through automatically.
In a new video posted to social media, Jeremy was clearly emotional as he said: “Hello everybody. I watched Britain’s Got Talent tonight for the first time, because the Hawkstone Choir were on. They were just fantastic. These guys are all farmers, and they work incredibly hard for really incredibly small rewards.
“To see them all on that stage with all that love in the room made my heart sing. I actually welled up. And thank you Amanda Holden for pressing that golden buzzer thing, I don’t know what that means but it obviously is important.”
Taking a deep breath, the Clarkson’s Farm star continued: “Yeah. Yeah, it shows that, I think, people quite like farmers. They were very, very good. Well done, all of you – I’m a very happy man tonight. That choir is fab. Yeah, sorry, that’s it.”
He also shared a clip of the performance on Instagram, writing: “They did it!!! They actually did it. Fantastic. I’m overwhelmed. Well done all of you. You were brilliant.”
The choir performed Elbow hit One Day Like This in their audition, giving Jeremy a shout-out before they began singing.
The choir is aged between 27 and 74, with the spokesperson explaining: “This isn’t our day jobs; we’re usually out in the fields!
“We work by ourselves day in and day out, sometimes 16, 17 hours a day. This has brought us together.
“We’re not singers by nature. It’s brought us as a family – we have one thing that unites us and that is farming. We love what we do but it can be incredibly hard: really lonely, very isolating. To do this all together, it’s meant the world to us.”