Simon Cowell has detailed the “difficult decision” to axe Britain’s Got Talent last year amid the Covid pandemic. The reality TV supremo said he had become “nervous” about making the show as a new variant began to sweep the country and called the series off just weeks before auditions were due to begin.
However, Cowell will reunite with judges Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams and hosts Ant & Dec when the show returns this weekend.
He said: “As much as I didn’t want to not make the show last year, we just couldn’t at that point, it would have been literally impossible. We had to stop it at the last moment, it was a difficult decision to make but it was the right one.
