Britain's Got Talent fans were left unsure over emotional scenes on Saturday night's (April 22) show. In emotional scenes, judge Alesha Dixon press the golden buzzer for Chickenshed theatre group who performed a singing and dancing routine to Wonder by Naughty Boy featuring Emeli Sande.
Thee four judges - Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, Simon Cowell and Bruno Tonioli - were moved by the group's performance after members of Chickenshed, a theatre company which welcomes anyone and is fully inclusive, introduced themselves and explained that they were a group who would be performing a singing and dancing routine.
A standing ovation from all the judges followed their performance, before Alesha Dixon leaned over and pressed her Golden Buzzer, leaving the audience at the Palladium and some at home singing their praises.
Struggling to hold back her tears, Dixon said sending the group through to the live semi-finals was an “honour” as they pride themselves on inclusivity and celebrating young people.
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She said: “I love every single thing that you stand for and that you represent, inclusivity is so important, everybody feeling represented, and you do that in abundance.
“You’re giving young people this incredible opportunity and platform and honestly, I don’t know what else is more important than that.”
Simon Cowell said: "I've known about Chickenshed for a long time and I've always wondered when is the year you're going to come on Britain's Got Talent and this performance summed up everything you do. This really, really, really, really is a golden buzzer audition, that's what it is for."
But the performance left some divided, as Birmingham Live reports with some critics at home believing it was "overproduced", while others praised the act.
One fan tweeted: "The most predictable golden buzzer in the history of golden buzzer."
While another said: "overproduced. "BGT ruining another #goldenbuzzer moment with this slow-mo nonsense in the edit. Fed up with this overproduced nonsense taking the raw emotion out of the moment," one fumed."
And another said: "Someone please explain to me how ChickenShed gets a golden buzzer but Enzo doesn't?
But another fan said: "Awwww love #ChickenShed YES! To inclusion , YES! to theatre YES to empowerment. so! powerful ! this is what it’s about !!!"
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