Susan Boyle’s jaw-dropping audition on Britain’s Got Talent is one of the talent show’s most memorable moments.
However, creator and judge Simon Cowell has admitted that it was a “wakeup call” for him on how he treated contestants on the show.
Scottish church volunteer Boyle, auditioned on the ITV show back in 2009, initially being sniggered at by judges Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan after telling them that she hoped to be as successful as Elaine Paige.
However, she immediately blew them away with her stunning rendition of I Dreamed a Dream from musical Les Misérables.
Speaking about the audition 17 years on, Cowell said that his reaction to Boyle walking on stage was “awful.”
“But actually, I remember saying, I don’t think we look bad enough. I think we were even worse than that,” he told the podcast, Tales from the Celebrity Trenches on Wednesday, May 6.
“I said, ‘we’re going to just tell it as it is.’ And they went, ‘you look awful.’ I said, ‘we are awful. All of us.’ I mean, that look Piers gives me. It’s just I think of all the looks I’ve ever remembered, that might be the worst,” he admitted.
Simon continued, “And I was just as bad. We all were. And then, you know, thank God for her, it all worked out well. And, of course, I had the ability to cut all that stuff out, but it was a bit of a wakeup call. Which is, you can’t judge a book by its cover.”
“We do look disgusting, but you got to hold your hands up at that moment. A lot of people are going to realise in about 24 hours that we’re just horrible. And so, we’re going to say sorry. And that’s what we did,” Simon Cowell revealed of his apology for being “awful.”
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