{"id":562993,"date":"2026-05-02T20:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562993\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:59:12","slug":"stacey-solomon-makes-surprise-return-to-britains-got-talent-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562993\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Solomon makes surprise return to Britain&#8217;s Got Talent semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The star was spotted in the audience of the live semi-final<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stacey Solomon on BGT\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_image-50.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Stacey Solomon showed up to support her golden buzzer act\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Stacey Solomon showed up to support her golden buzzer act(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Britain&#8217;s Got Talent pulled off a surprise as Stacey Solomon sat in the audience ready to watch her golden buzzer act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Stacey Solomon made an appearance on the panel to fill in for Simon who missed the first day of filming during the auditions. Stacey is no stranger to a talent show after finishing in third place during The X Factor&#8217;s 2009 series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">She finally chose her golden buzzer moment as she was won over by Braunstone Community Primary School&#8217;s choir turned rave party and was quick to press the buzzer and send them through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"Click hereLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=b8052254-66af-41f3-9dae-7bbb0e3391c6&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Trying to keep her new role hidden at first, Stacey previously shared: &#8220;I&#8217;ve last minute been asked to do an absolutely dream job today so Rose and me are going to get ready and head up there because it&#8217;s something she will love too. Genuinely so excited to do this and can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve been asked [tears face emoji].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Before taking to her Instagram where she shared a snap of the BGT judges panel and the stage with her name in lights as she penned: &#8220;What in the alternate universe is going on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">On Saturday (May 2), the <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/itv\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">ITV<\/a> talent show was back for its second week of live semi-finals. Just as Ant and Dec welcomed the judges and the audience, they announced: &#8220;I&#8217;ve spotted somebody in our studio audience&#8221; before running over to Stacey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Stacey was sat with two of her children and husband Joe Swash. Sat in the audience to see her golden buzzer act, Braunstone Community Primary School, she said: &#8220;I cannot wait to watch them. I know they&#8217;re gonna have the time of their lives out there and that&#8217;s what this show is all about to me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;I feel so honoured to be here and I&#8217;ve loved every second of it, good luck everyone tonight&#8221; as the audience cheered for her and Joe to be back in the studio.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BGT\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_image-51.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Joe Swash was also there along with their two daughters\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Joe Swash was also there along with their two daughters(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Last week, the semi-final kicked off with some drama as Ant and Dec referenced the drama of Sinitta walking out during the I&#8217;m a Celebrity South Africa live final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They wasted no time in poking fun at the awkwardness of the previous evening. Declaring there was &#8220;nothing better&#8221; than live television, Dec then took a dig at Sinitta&#8217;s theatrical departure from her seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Ant then said: &#8220;We had quite enough drama on the telly last night. Can you please, you four, be on your best behaviour.&#8221; Dec then joked: &#8220;If you misbehave you&#8217;ll be out quicker than Sinitta.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The star was spotted in the audience of the live semi-final Stacey Solomon showed up to support her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3573,96,347,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-562993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-britains-got-talent","tag-entertainment","tag-itv","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}