{"id":357939,"date":"2026-03-21T14:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357939\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:49:12","slug":"britains-got-talent-viewers-in-tears-by-unbelievable-performance-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357939\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s Got Talent viewers in tears by ‘unbelievable’ performance | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Britain's<\/p>\n

The judges were all on their feet (Image: Tom Dymond\/ITV)<\/p>\n

Britain’s Got Talent<\/a> viewers have called for a young performer to receive the coveted golden buzzer.<\/p>\n

The ITV talent show has made its comeback with a fresh series, as Stacey Solomon (temporarily replacing Simon Cowell)<\/a>, Amanda Holden<\/a>, KSI and Alesha Dixon search for the country’s next champion.<\/p>\n

Each year, the judges and presenters Ant and Dec<\/a> can award one contestant a golden buzzer, which propels the act directly through to the live semi-final stages.<\/p>\n

Following a sneak peek of an forthcoming audition, supporters have been making the identical plea. 12-year-old James from Rye, East Sussex, received a thunderous response following his performance of Wicked’s Defying Gravity.<\/p>\n

He confessed to feeling a “bit nervous” ahead of his appearance, but evidently had no reason to worry, as he received a standing ovation, with the judges left astounded, all rising to their feet as they applauded the young vocalist, reports Belfast Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"James<\/p>\n

12-year-old James performed Wicked’s Defying Gravity (Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

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The emotional rendition had Ant and Dec screaming from the sidelines, as Alesha told him: “That was how you do it! Everybody loves that big moment at the end, I can’t tell you how many times my children have tried to attempt that last moment in the song, it is the magic moment, and you smashed it!”<\/p>\n

KSI added: “James, I felt like I was watching a Disney kids show. You blew everyone away.”<\/p>\n

\"James<\/p>\n

The young performer sailed through his mind-blowing audition (Image: Tom Dymond\/ITV)<\/p>\n

“I cannot believe that a little sausage like you has the pipes for something so huge, congratulations,” Amanda praised.<\/p>\n

Stacey shared: “You think your kids are talented and then you’re like, no maybe mine aren’t so talented, when you see people like you, James. Your parents must be buzzing.”<\/p>\n

She added: “That was absolutely phenomenal,” before Alesha branded James “a star in the making”.<\/p>\n

One fan wrote: “That’s out of this world for a 12 year-old boy. I felt I was watching one of those Disney movies. So beautiful. He is a star even without the Golden Buzzer.”<\/p>\n

\"James<\/p>\n

Fans admitted they had tears in their eyes after his performance (Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

Another said: “Definitely deserved the golden buzzer,” while a third added: “Rarely does a kid have this level of vocal maturity. It moved me to tears. Should have gotten the golden!”<\/p>\n

Someone else wrote: “Jeeeesuuuuus! Normally with kids, even trained kids, you can usually hear some bits that show underdeveloped voice and techniques, but my God, this boys control and technique was mind blowing!”<\/p>\n

\"James<\/p>\n

Viewers have been left blown away (Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

Yet another echoed: “How did he not get The Golden Buzzer?!! Unbelievable,” as someone else said: “When you have crowd reaction like that and all four judges standing, I felt that this was a golden buzzer performance. He nailed that song!!!”<\/p>\n

Another viewer wrote: “Tears are flowing down my face listening to that young man. Hit every note.”<\/p>\n

\"Stacey<\/p>\n

Stacey Solomon was stepping in for Simon Cowell (Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

Someone else wrote: “THE PIPES ON THIS KID WHAT THE HECK, HOW DARE HE NOT GET GOLDEN.”<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Got Talent airs Saturday 6:45pm on ITV1 and ITVX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The judges were all on their feet (Image: Tom Dymond\/ITV) Britain’s Got Talent viewers have called for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[145600,36803,62294,93,61,60,8642,30028,11422,282],"class_list":["post-357939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-alesha-dixon","tag-amanda-holden","tag-britains-got-talent","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-itv","tag-simon-cowell","tag-stacey-solomon","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}