Britain's Got Talent's Bruno Tonioli responds to his Golden Buzzer mistake in first episode
Britain's Got Talent panelist Bruno Tonioli fluffed his lines when it came to the Golden Buzzer tonight (April 15).
The first episode of series 16 happened to be Tonioli's debut as a judge, having replaced David Walliams, but when one dance troupe blew him away, the Italian's eagerness to reward them with his Golden Buzzer meant that he pressed it way too early.
"I just had to do it. They were absolutely amazing," he told Digital Spy and other media. "And then I turn around and go what have I done wrong? I had no idea.
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"I did it in the performance and the whole stage is covered with gold and they keep on dancing. And they were even more amazing. Now I know you have to wait until the end," Tonioli continued.
"But then I didn't know that you can only do it once, so I did it again. And we just keep giving them. But you get such a buzz to embrace fully what has been performed in front of you to such a level that the audience goes insane."
The ex-Strictly Come Dancing star was presented with the format's workings before the cameras came out, but it all "went out the window" in the heat of the moment.
"They were like, 'Here are the rules, you press it then, not then', but that went out the window, I honestly got caught up in the moment, forgot everything I'd been told and just reacted instinctively," he admitted.
"I looked up, Simon [Cowell] was in stitches, Alesha [Dixon] looked shocked!"
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Tonioli's nerves were all aflutter ahead of joining the Britain's Got Talent line-up, too.
"I was nervous because I had no idea," he said. "I had never seen the show. Obviously, they're all friends, but they've done it for 10 years.
"I was actually nervous because it's like you're jumping into a play, you've never rehearsed with a cast you do your performance with."
Britain's Got Talent airs on ITV1 and ITVX.
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