Simon Cowell presses his Golden Buzzer leaving Ant McPartlin in tears

Ahhh!

Britain's Got Talent
Author: Anna Sky MagliolaPublished 30th Apr 2018
Last updated 30th Apr 2018

Britain's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell surprised everyone over the weekend by pressing his Golden Buzzer. Simon chose to send father and son act, Jack and Tim, through to the semi-finals after they wowed him and the audience with their performance.

The pair from Norwich performed their own composition on acoustic guitars, introducing it to the panel as a song about their family and feeling lucky for what they have, after a loss within the family.

Jack and Tim's performance wasn't just a hit with Simon, all for judges gave their performance a standing ovation, along with the audience. Many of the audience, judges and even co-host Ant McPartlin were left in tears.

After their performance was aired on Saturday the official Britain's Got Talent account uploaded the video to YouTube. Since then the video has had 3.6 million views. Whilst the comments have been disabled for this video, a massive 91K have given the video a like.

Watch Jack and Tim's performance below:

After Simon leant over to hit the Golden Buzzer, Tim fell onto the stage in shock, whilst Jack put his hand over his month. The pair then hugged tightly as the audience all cheered and many tears were shed.

Tim & Jack Goodacre

Now check out where the child stars of BGT are now:


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Earlier this month it was revealed why Simon decided to press the Golden Buzzer for this act.

Revealing one of the acts reminded him of his young son Eric, DigitalSpy reported Simon as saying, "There was this kid and I was thinking, 'God, that literally could be Eric'. It wouldn't be me as the dad, but it could be Eric."

He continued, "There was something about this boy, he sang with his dad and I thought the song they wrote was really cool."

Simon went on to explain how he could see Ant and Dec thinking about pressing their buzzer, but he felt he had to press it.

"I caught a glimpse of Ant and Dec ready to run down and push the golden buzzer, and I thought, 'No way! This one is mine!' You have to watch this act, I think they are really great people, it's unusual to see a dad and his son, but it worked," the dad of one explained.

The current series of Britain's Got Talent started on the 14th April and stars both Ant and Dec during the pre-recorded audition shows, however only Dec will be in the live shows.

Since Ant pleaded guilty for drink driving and stepped down from his TV presenting duties, ITV have said, "Dec will be hosting the live shows, which for the first time ever are coming from the Hammersmith Apollo, while Ant steps down from his TV commitments for now. We send Ant all our love. And we know that Dec will do a brilliant job."

Britain's Got Talent continues on Saturdays on ITV.