Did You See That

The show got off to a flying start yesterday and today it reached Birmingham and Manchester. To be honest, it didn’t quite hit the high notes of yesterday but there was still a good mix of the laugh-out-loud awful, and also some really quite impressive acts.

Acts falling in the former included the ventriloquist with 3 weeks experience (”the worst ventriloquist in the world” according to Simon) and Catalyst - the poetry and cat act.

Better performances came from Dominic Smith singing Unchained Melody, the dance group Combat Breakers - although we saw more reaction shots than the routine itself - and Mike, the impressionist who wanted to make his Dad proud. By about half way through, Simon hadn’t had the chance to deploy the look of open-mouth, aww-struck wonder that he seems to have been working on but then it got its outing in grand style when an erotic angle grinder took to the stage. With metal strapped to her nether regions, she used the angle grinder to create a sparking light show. Piers and Simon enjoyed it, but I’m not entirely sure it’s suitable for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show.

Also worth a mention is Old And Past It - the 70 year old woman who writes and performs her own rap. Amanda was, slightly patronisingly, impressed she could even remember the words. “I should be able to, love, I wrote them”, she reposted.

Britain’s Got Talent returns tomorrow!