A comedian has won over judge Simon Cowell with his sharp wit on Britain’s Got Talent and secured his coveted golden buzzer. Reality TV supremo Cowell told Axel Blake, a 33-year-old property maintenance manager from west London, that the country “needed acts like him” after the difficult couple of years everyone has been through due to the pandemic.
When asked by Cowell if he had ever lost confidence in his act, Blake admitted he had, but that he was inspired by his family and wanted to teach his 12-year-old son, who was in the audience, to believe in himself. During his stand-up routine, Blake brought humour to everything from naming his newborn Pfizer, nicknamed Pfiesha, as she was a pandemic baby, and the funny bickering arguments he gets into with his fiancee.
He also joked about bizarre happenings on the London Underground, saying: “Couple of weeks ago I saw a woman and she was doing her whole make-up, a couple of stops later she looked like a whole new person. I was so impressed I clapped it and she looked down on me like ‘ew’. I thought ‘You may be a nine out of 10 now but you were a minus two at King’s Cross’.”
