History Series / BritainsGotTalent

* CutenessOverload: Flakefeet Primary School on season 13 while some people argue if they had a talent or not no one argues the fact that they were a cute act.

** 12-year-old musical singer Beau Dermott was accused of "cheating" in newspapers when it was revealed that she had been professionally coached in singing and won multiple TalentShows before. BGT has no rules banning either of these.
** 2022 competitor Loren Allred (who provided the singing voice for Jenny Lind in TheGreatestShowman) received particular online hostility for her previous experience and success.

* AsideGlance: Stephen Mulhern does these on ''Britain's Got More Talent", mostly along the lines of "Have you ever wanted to see... (aside glance) No? Me neither." It may sound repetitive, but they are quite funny when you see his face.

** Simon does not like seeing terrified puppies. And during a segment on Britain's Got More Talent, he walks away after realizing the puppy he was given was very nervous.

* BigNo: Stephen Mulhern shouts one at the start of a live Britain's Got More Talent. He rather shakily emerges on roller skates[[note]]as a ShoutOut to a wacky contestant who was eliminated[[/note]] and can be heard yelling at David to stay away.

* ButtMonkey: David is often the subject of mockery from the others, especially on Britain's Got More Talent.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Frequently invoked by the judges, particularly with regard to dance groups. Even otherwise competent acts can get buzzed off near-instantly if they're regarded to be too similar to a previously successful act.

* BigFun: Stavros Flatly both of their times

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In 2013, impressionist Francine Lewis performs this three times in one act

* CutenessOverload : Flakefeet Primary School on season 13 while some people argue if they had a talent or not no one argues the fact that they were a cute act.

* BigNo: Stephen Mulhern shouts one at the start of a live Britain's Got More Talent. He rather shakily emerges on roller skates [[note]]as a ShoutOut to a wacky contestant who was eliminated[[/note]] and can be heard yelling at David to stay away.

** Two acts appeared in the live shows in successive years. Series 8 competitors Lauren & Terrell returned the following year as part of the dance troupe IMD Legion. Then in the finale of Series 13, masked magician X revealed himself to be [[spoiler: Series 12 semi-finalist Marc Spelmann]]

* CoolOldGuy: Colin Thackery a war veteran becomes the oldest winner on Britain's got talent and any franchise.

* BigNo: Stephen Mulhern shouts one at the start of a live Britain's Got More Talent. He rather shakily emerges on roller skates [[note]]as a ShoutOut to a wacky contestant who was eliminated[[/note]] and can be heard yelling at David to stay away. HilarityEnsues.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: On the side of the contestants in the defense of their usually poor acts. In a meta sense, the need to play [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbS-Zhz31CA&feature=fvst Lux Aeterna]] or some derivative of otherwise [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic epic]] [[OminousLatinChanting music]] at [[OnceAnEpisode EVERY POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY!]]

''Britain's Got Talent'' is an Creator/{{ITV}} TalentShow hosted by Creator/AntAndDec. Contestants perform talent acts with the aim of winning a public vote and perform in front of UsefulNotes/HMTheKing (or another member of UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily; previously Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII until her death in 2022) at the ''Royal Variety Performance''. Each contestant performs in front of three or four judges. The judges each have a buzzer and can push them if they want the act to stop, but all buzzers must be pressed for this to happen. Additionally, from series 8 onwards, there is the Golden Buzzer, which each judge and the hosts may only press once per series if they feel that an act deserves to be sent directly to the semi-finals.

* '''David Walliams''' (2012-present); comedian and actor

* DistractedByTheSexy: Simon on a regular basis. Anytime there is a pretty woman on stage he can't stop grinning, and the cameras show him blatantly checking them out. So much so there is a video called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8xsZB2GO-M Britain's Got Pervert]]...

* DragQueen: Simon Cowell half-jokingly asked auditionee Tracy Lee Collins to come back in a dress. He did, and the results were [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PN6D8Y_eg0 pretty awesome, actually]].
** In 2016 Danny Beard sported GagBoobs, whiteface make-up and gold glitter in his beard. He then belted out a killer rendition of [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow "Sweet Transvestite"]].

''Britain's Got Talent'' is an Creator/{{ITV}} TalentShow where people perform talent acts with the aim of winning a public vote and perform in front of UsefulNotes/HMTheKing (or another member of UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily; previously Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII until her death in 2022) at the Series/RoyalVarietyPerformance. Each contestant performs in front of three or four judges. The judges have three/four buzzers and can push them if they want the act to stop. All buttons pressed- the act stops. Tolerated primarily for the ridiculous and often hilariously bad auditions and the inevitable scathing responses.

* '''Alesha Dixon''' (2012-present); singer, recently defected from ''Series/StrictlyComeDancing''

* Ashley Banjo (2020); The lead member of former BGT Champions Diversity and a judge on ''Series/DancingOnIce'', Ashley stepped in as a guest judge for the live shows when Simon suffered a severe back injury.

The two hosts of the show are Creator/AntAndDec, who serves as the substitute judge during the auditions when one of the other judges is ill or otherwise busy since series 8 in addition to getting the chance to press the golden buzzer as well.

The show also aired a spin-off, ''Britain's Got More Talent'', after each episode of the main show on ITV2. This show was hosted by magician/presenter Creator/StephenMulhern and focused more on the backstage elements of the show, with a stronger emphasis on comedy.

''Britain's Got Talent'' is an Creator/{{ITV}} TalentShow where people perform talent acts with the aim of winning a public vote and perform in front of UsefulNotes/HMTheKing (or another member of UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily; previously UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen until her death in 2022) at the Series/RoyalVarietyPerformance. Each contestant performs in front of three or four judges. The judges have three/four buzzers and can push them if they want the act to stop. All buttons pressed- the act stops. Tolerated primarily for the ridiculous and often hilariously bad auditions and the inevitable scathing responses.

** Mary Sumah barely made it past the {{punchline}} of her first joke before being decisively buzzed off the stage by all three judges. The actual joke wasn't funny: she asks the ladies "Are you all alright?", and when they reply, she goes, "[[spoiler:No, you are all all ''left''.]]") However, the ''entire act'' was structured like a joke: her introduction - where she revealed that she spent $200 on comedy school - provided a setup for the horrible punchline, which was then followed by by a {{beat}} from the auditorium before the StunnedSilence was broken by the [[OneTwoPunchline actual "punchline"]] delivered by the judges' reactions. The act turned out to be hilarious, [[TheFool just not in the way Mary likely intended]].

* SturgeonsLaw: A rare case where this ISN'T a bad thing. It could be argued that this is why the show is tolerated by audiences. They primarily want to see the crap acts, with the REALLY good stuff being a bonus.

The show also aired a spin-off, ''Britain's Got More Talent'', after each episode of the main show on ITV2. This show wass hosted by magician/presenter Creator/StephenMulhern and focused more on the backstage elements of the show, with a stronger emphasis on comedy.

The show also airs a spin-off, ''Britain's Got More Talent'', after each episode of the main show on ITV2. This show is hosted by magician/presenter Creator/StephenMulhern and focuses more on the backstage elements of the show, with a stronger emphasis on comedy.

''Britain's Got Talent'' is an Creator/{{ITV}} TalentShow where people perform talent acts with the aim of winning a public vote and perform in front of UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen (or another member of UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily) at the Series/RoyalVarietyPerformance. Each contestant performs in front of three or four judges. The judges have three/four buzzers and can push them if they want the act to stop. All buttons pressed- the act stops. Tolerated primarily for the ridiculous and often hilariously bad auditions and the inevitable scathing responses.

* '''Creator/SimonCowell''' (2007-present); [[TheMeanBrit THE Mean Brit]], even in his own country; sat out the auditions in the 2011 series but returned for the 2011 live shows and onwards

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Simon and Piers are both [[MeanBrit Mean Brits]], but Simon tends to be nicer to younger contestants, while Piers sometimes gives otherwise hopeless acts a chance to continue before pressing his buzzer.

* TheMeanBrit: Simon AND Piers. Granted, Piers is a little less negative than on ''Series/AmericasGotTalent''.

** Donald Camber's act consisted of him half-mumbling and {{Corpsing}} his way through an overly-long and agonizingly atrocious joke: ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' (or, according to him, Amsterdam) goes out for a walk and returns to his flat to find a man waiting there, who asks the Hunchback to teach him to ring the bells of Notre Dame. Quasimodo does a demonstration and pushes the bell over to the trainee, but it hits him in the face and knocks him out the window. A passerby finds him and says to Quasi, "There's a man down here, do you recognize him?" Quasimodo responds with, "No, but that face certainly rings a bell." Cue three X's from the judges. Donald's upbeat attitude and constant barely-concealed laughter kept everybody smiling regardless.

* AbsoluteCleavage: According to a tabloid interview, Amanda Holden was trying deliberately to provoke the UK's MoralGuardians with some of her costume choices. The complaints to the official TV watchdogs were rejected.