{"id":36217,"date":"2026-05-14T12:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/36217\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:25:26","slug":"paul-potts-wants-to-return-to-britains-got-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/36217\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Potts wants to return to Britain’s Got Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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14 May 2026\n <\/p>\n

Paul Potts<\/a> wants to be a judge on Britain’s Got Talent.<\/p>\n

\"Paul<\/p>\n

Paul Potts won the first series of Britain’s Got Talent in 2007<\/p>\n

The tenor, who won the first series of the ITV competition in 2007 with his performance of Nessun dorma, has been a guest judge on some international versions of the show, and now he wants to return to Britain’s Got Talent to help decide which act will perform at the Royal Variety Performance.<\/p>\n

Paul, 55, told Sky Vegas: “I\u2019d absolutely love to do it [be a judge on Britain\u2019s Got Talent]. I\u2019ve already been a guest judge on shows in Korea and on China\u2019s Got Talent, so I\u2019ve had a little taste of it already. <\/p>\n

“I actually came quite close to becoming a judge on a pop show in Germany as well. It\u2019s definitely something I\u2019d love to do more of in the future.”<\/p>\n

The star thinks comedians have to work harder to impress the judges, Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden<\/a>, Alesha Dixon, and KSI, and the public – who ultimately decide the winner in the live grand final.<\/p>\n

\nPaul explained: “All talents are welcome. Being a comedian is one of the hardest things you can do because you\u2019ve got to entertain people for a set amount of time, and comedy is so subjective. What one person finds hilarious, another person just won\u2019t get at all. <\/p>\n

\n“The closest we\u2019ve had to this kind of humour before was probably [2018 winner] Lost Voice Guy, and he came under very similar criticism at the time. But humour evolves, and different styles work for different audiences. <\/p>\n

\n“For me, [2026 finalist] Ted Hill\u2019s act worked, but it\u2019s never going to work for everyone. That\u2019s just the nature of comedy. It\u2019s easy for people to criticise comedians because humour is such a personal thing.”<\/p>\n

\nIf Paul became a judge, he would only use the Golden Buzzer “for something truly exceptional”, otherwise he does not see the point in the feature, which allows Simon, Amanda, Alesha, and KSI to send a performer straight through to the semi-final.<\/p>\n

\nExplaining why he thinks the Golden Buzzer should be scrapped, Paul added: “Before, you had the judges\u2019 vote and the public vote, but a lot of the time, it ended up going to a deadlock anyway, so the judges weren\u2019t really making the decision. <\/p>\n

\n“The problem now is that the Golden Buzzer can play into one judge\u2019s personal bias or preference. Once that Golden Buzzer has gone, everyone else is suddenly under more pressure because they can only get through by winning the public vote. <\/p>\n

\n“It makes things harder for the other acts, and I\u2019m not convinced it\u2019s an improvement. <\/p>\n

\n“I think the old system worked reasonably well, although maybe they needed an odd number of judges instead of four so it couldn\u2019t keep ending in a deadlock. <\/p>\n

\n“If there were five judges, someone would always have to decide instead of constantly pushing it back onto the public.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"14 May 2026 Paul Potts wants to be a judge on Britain’s Got Talent. Paul Potts won the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3362,390,13,3378,16943,14566,392,14550],"class_list":{"0":"post-36217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-alesha-dixon","9":"tag-amanda-holden","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-ksi","12":"tag-lost-voice-guy","13":"tag-paul-potts","14":"tag-simon-cowell","15":"tag-ted-hill"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116572921725926089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217","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=36217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}