Britain’s Got Talent is officially back on television screens for the first time since it was axed in 2021.
The beloved ITV competition show returned on Saturday night with , Amanda Holden, David Walliams and Alesha Dixon back on the judging panel and and reprising their hosting positions.
Viewers have already seen The Greatest Showman singer Loren Allredafter performing a striking rendition of the track Never Enough.
Dec alsoafter two young sisters surprised their dad by joining him on stage.
While this year’s series is already off to a flying start, let’s take a look back on why Britain’s Got Talent wasn’t on last year.
Why wasn’t Britain’s Got Talent on last year?
Britain’s Got Talent didn’t air last year after it was axed for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Simon Cowell recently opened up on the difficult decision to not go ahead with the series at the time, admitting that it was a ‘hard’ choice to make.
‘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,’ he said.
‘We had to stop it at the last moment, it was a difficult decision to make but it was the right one.
‘I think off the back of that, when we did all get back together, I think we realised how much we enjoy making the show.
‘We did miss each other, we get on and work well together.’
He added: ‘It was hard but I’ve got to be honest, because of what was happening at the time, which was the new variant had come out, I got really nervous about it.
‘We were about two or three weeks out from auditions and I just thought, “We can’t do this, the risk to everyone is too high”.
‘So, it was tough, but I knew it was the right thing to do because it wasn’t like the show was never going to come back.
‘We always knew it would come back this year and it would come round quickly, which it did.
‘I missed it but I had no choice. I hope that break, having not had it on air for a year, that the audience will like it even more, I hope they missed it.’
Britain’s Got Talent continues on Sunday April 17 at 7.35pm on ITV.
