Britain’s Got Talent 2022: Schoolboy environmentalist captures the judges’ hearts as mini David Attenborough in first Golden Moment audition
Posted by  badge Boss on Apr 18, 2022 - 10:57AM
Seven-year-old Aneeshwar shared his passion for the planet during his Golden Moment audition (Picture: ITV)

Mini environmentalist Aneeshwar Kunchala stole hearts on Sunday night’s episode of with his passionate poetry about wildlife and conserving the planet, as dubbed him ‘the perfect person to follow in ’s footsteps’.

Schoolboy Aneeshwar, seven, was unveiled as , a new segment where each judge surprises an unsuspecting act, nominated without their knowledge, and invites them to audition at the Palladium.

Judge travelled to his school in Warrington, Cheshire, to surprise him and dressed up as a panda to ask him onto the show in front of his excited schoolmates.

Dressed in what is soon likely to become an iconic outfit, Aneeshwar donned camo trousers, a grey jumper, blue baseball cap and rucksack (complete with attached binoculars, naturally) and wore a head mic set for his audition.

He then passionately addressed his poetry on wildlife conservation and saving the planet to the audience, as his friends joined him on the stage dressed as a variety of animals and natural things, including an elephant, a tree, and a tiger.

He implored people to ‘stop getting it wrong’ to a stirring soundtrack, which got the audience on their feet and the judges applauding as he finished his audition.

Aneeshwar was surprised by David at his school in the show’s first-ever Golden Moment (Picture: ITV)
The judge personally invited him to audition for the show (Picture: ITV)

When asked how it felt by David, the youngster said it felt ‘very good’.

dubbed his act ‘incredible’ and asked how old he had been when writing his material, to which Aneeshwar replied: ‘I was about six years old.’

called him ‘a remarkable young man’ and Amanda commented: ‘The message is so important and when I think about somebody like David Attenborough, somebody we obviously all look up to an admire, you’re the perfect person to follow in his footsteps.’

The schoolboy delivered his poetry with the help of his friends dressed as animals and a stirring soundtrack (Picture: ITV)
The audience was enchanted by his performance (Picture: ITV)
Amanda compared Aneeshwar to national treaure and conservation expert Sir David Attenborough (Picture: PA)

David added: ‘Well I think we’ll look back on this as the moment when the world met Aneeshwar. This is the start of something very special.’

Aneeshwar picked up an easy four yeses from the judges, to which he fist-pumped the air and yelled: ‘Oh yeah!’

The adorable schoolboy is safely into the next round, where we can hope to see him saved to perform again.

Elsewhere on the show, for the series, after impressing him with jokes on topics including Covid.

Britain’s Got Talent continues at 8pm next Saturday on ITV.