{"id":33944,"date":"2025-04-19T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33944\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:42:09","slug":"britains-got-talent-audience-member-asks-for-audition-and-wins-a-golden-buzzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33944\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s Got Talent audience member asks for audition and wins a Golden Buzzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An audience member on Britain\u2019s Got Talent asked for an audition and received a Golden Buzzer from one of the judges.<\/p>\n<p>Midway through one of the talent show auditions, a member of the audience, named Max Fox, began calling out to star judge Simon Cowell, asking him to give him \u201ca chance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When Cowell acknowledged him,\u00a0Fox stood up from his seat and said: \u201cNineteen years I\u2019ve tried to get in front of you, and I\u2019ve never had that chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you give me one opportunity and I can show you what I\u2019ve got?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judges, which included Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and guest judge KSI, appeared startled by the outburst when Cowell invited the man, who appeared to be an audience member, to the judges\u2019 desk.<\/p>\n<p>He asked him if it was a \u201cwind up\u201d, to which Fox replied by saying he was a \u201clocal singer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While considering what to do, judge KSI could be heard saying: \u201cI\u2019ve never seen this before\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After discussing with the production team and the audience member, Cowell decided to invite him for an audition at the end of the programme.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"Britain\u2019s Got Talent 2024 auditions \u2013 Blackpool\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/43eb40296f35626f4763ddbe0ff74588.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Presenter Ant McPartlin, Guest judge KSI, Judge Alesha Dixon, Judge Amanda Holden, Judge Simon Cowell and Presenter Declan Donnelly appeared at the auditions at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool (Peter Byrne\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>When it came time for the audition, Fox introduced himself on stage and said: \u201cI\u2019ve been trying 19 years, since I was 16, to get in front of you. I\u2019ve been in Manchester, in the football stadiums where you hold your big auditions, and I\u2019ve never been able to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily, I was 10 foot away from you sat here. I don\u2019t know how I managed to get that seat. And I just thought it was worth the chance to ask you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a local singer. It\u2019s my passion. It\u2019s my everything. I live for performing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cowell then asked Fox if he swears that this was not a set-up to which he replied: \u201cI promise you, this is my dream. I\u2019ve managed to sing in front of you. That\u2019s my dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the audition, Fox sang a rendition of Frank Sinatra\u2019s My Way which received a standing ovation from the audience and the four judges until Holden hit the Golden Buzzer, sending him straight to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, stand-up Comedian Joseph Charm was visibly emotional after his audition which received four nods of approval.<\/p>\n<p>Magician Manho Han was seen falling off the stage \u2013 but managed to recover with his quick-change skills which impressed the judges, who each gave him a yes.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s Got Talent airs on ITV1 at 7pm on Saturdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An audience member on Britain\u2019s Got Talent asked for an audition and received a Golden Buzzer from one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[17162,1950,19763,748,709,393,4884,19764,1144,712,1894,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-33944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-alesha-dixon","11":"tag-amanda-holden","12":"tag-audience-member","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-britains-got-talent","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-max-fox","18":"tag-northern-ireland","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-simon-cowell","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114366811061817707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}