The pair appeared in high spirits throughout the BGT<\/a> episode and even laughed off the events of the previous night, even joking that they loved ‘live telly’.<\/p>\n However, the evening wasn’t without hiccups, as Donnelly appeared to clash with lead judge Cowell<\/a> after attempting to wrap up feedback given to one of the contestants.<\/p>\n Following a lengthy performance from magician Fraser Penman, which saw the hypnotist correctly guess Amanda Holden<\/a>‘s childhood memories, Donnelly was keen to keep the show running to schedule and attempted to cut short Cowell’s feedback of the 31-year-old Scotsman.<\/p>\n “Thank you, judges, thank you very much,” the 50-year-old said, as there were likely producers in his ear who wanted to make sure the episode didn’t run over.<\/p>\n However, Cowell didn’t take lightly to having his comments cut short, abruptly brushing the presenter off in order to continue with his feedback.<\/p>\n “I’m still talking!” he told Donnelly.<\/p>\n Of course, Cowell wasn’t being deliberately combative and just wanted to give his honest feedback on Penman’s performance, but the moment clearly caught the presenter by surprise.<\/p>\n The exchange didn’t sit too well with fans either, as several viewers took to social media to complain about Cowell’s behaviour at that moment.<\/p>\n “‘I\u2019m still talking’ Simon, I think Ant and Dec have had enough attitude for this weekend,” complained one viewer on X, as a second added: “Wow @SimonCowell is a little rude I\u2019m still talking!”<\/p>\n “Omg I couldn’t tell if he’d said that or ‘I’ll stop talking’, poor Dec, hasn’t he been through enough,” penned a third, while someone else joked that Donnelly had ‘reached his limit’ of chaotic live TV.<\/p>\n The exchange followed a warning to the judges from Ant and Dec<\/a>, with the pair insisting there would be ‘no drama’ that evening.<\/p>\n “We had quite enough drama on the telly last night,” Ant McPartlin told Cowell, Holden and fellow judges Alesha Dixon and KSI, adding: “Can you please, you four, be on your very best behaviour tonight.”<\/p>\n “If you misbehave, you’ll be out,” Donnelly added.<\/p>\n The drama the pair are referring to is, of course, the epic bust-up involving Jimmy Bullard, David Haye and Adam Thomas during Friday’s I’m A Celeb episode, with the former two reportedly being kicked out of the finale<\/a> for their behaviour, which led to several stars walking off stage<\/a> at one point.<\/p>\n LADbible has approached a representative of Simon Cowell for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell has been accused of acting rudely towards Britain’s Got Talent host Declan Donnelly. Last night (25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[104683,83938,58172,18,117,19,17,12192,128],"class_list":["post-457253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ant-and-dec","tag-britains-got-talent","tag-declan-donnelly","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-simon-cowell","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116480256938870586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0Y2Q3NGFjYzFkMGE5OWYzYS9ibHRiMWYzZjI2.webp\"\/)
The pair had warned the judges against starting drama (ITV)<\/p>\n![\"Cowell](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0Y2Q3NGFjYzFkMGE5OWYzYS9ibHQzNDdiYWI2.webp\"\/)
Cowell received backlash for his brisk response to Dec (ITV)<\/p>\n