{"id":32399,"date":"2026-05-09T20:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/32399\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:41:14","slug":"simon-cowell-calls-out-britains-got-talent-producers-in-awkward-semi-final-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/32399\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell calls out Britain’s Got Talent producers in awkward semi-final moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The music mogul was not happy during the ITV talent competition’s latest semi-final<\/p>\n

Simon Cowell on Britain’s Got Talent(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

Simon Cowell called out the Britain\u2019s Got Talent producers on live TV in an awkward semi-final moment.<\/p>\n

It was a busy night for the ITV<\/a> talent show on Saturday night (May 9) as more acts looked to make it through to the final later in the month. To date singer Matty Juniosa, and her dog Salsa, illusionist Fabian Fox, musician Sadeck Berrabah and dance troop LMA have all been sent through.<\/p>\n

Ant and Dec<\/a> revealed at the beginning of the episode that KSI was the judge with the power of the golden buzzer this week. The YouTuber and boxer could send any act he wanted straight through to the final.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat do I do with this power? I could troll with it. It\u2019s all about feeling with me. If it makes sense I\u2019ll press it,\u201d he said to the Geordie presenters.<\/p>\n

Performing this week was glowing performance group Antigravity, daredevil act Liwei Yang, The Lux City Choir, dance group Mega Unity, acrobatic act Mizuki Shinagawa, harpist and singer Niamh Noade, dance group Playground and comedian Ted Hill.<\/p>\n

Early into the semi-final<\/a>, The Lux City Choir looked to stun the judges with a powerful performance of Miley Cyrus\u2019 The Climb. Fans will recall that they sang Whitney Houston\u2019s Higher Love at their audition.<\/p>\n

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The Lux City Choir on Britain’s Got Talent<\/p>\n

Sadly, the performance didn\u2019t go down as well as expected with the judges, with several of them calling out the song choice. Alesha Dixon said: \u201cI loved the opening, I felt like I was in the circle of trust. It was a beautiful way to start the performance\u2026 your voices are just perfect.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy only small criticism was the transition in the middle of the song, it felt a little clunky to me. I really liked the Miley Cryus song\u2026 just creatively, I would have liked you to go to a different song. It just didn\u2019t work.”<\/p>\n

Amanda Holden<\/a> added: \u201cI got goosebumps when you first started\u2026 The song choice was brave. I was waiting for that massive moment we\u2019ve seen with you before, I didn\u2019t feel like we got that today. I love how free you are and how relaxed you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

KSI stated: \u201cI felt like the introduction was really nice, your voices are heavenly. I\u2019m not sure of the song, I don\u2019t know what the song is. It kind of went over my head\u2026 I wasn\u2019t able to relate or respond well to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it came time for head judge Simon <\/a>to have his say, the music mogul defended the act. Instead, he called out the show\u2019s production team after asking if they could perform again.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre we able to do this again? If this was an audition, I\u2019d say let\u2019s just hear you because your voices are great. The track kicked in and we lost you.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat would have been beautiful in the middle, if the track had just completely dropped away and heard how good you are. You were actually overproduced, boo to the producers I\u2019m afraid. Seriously, it\u2019s not your fault,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

Lux City Choir member Josh then said: \u201cFirst of all, a big thank you. This is the biggest thing we\u2019ve ever done. We worked really hard for this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The music mogul was not happy during the ITV talent competition’s latest semi-final Simon Cowell on Britain’s Got…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,171,335,392,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-32399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-britains-got-talent","10":"tag-itv","11":"tag-simon-cowell","12":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116546560512099072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}