The clue, you might think, is in the name: BRITAIN'S Got Talent.
There we all were assuming that the sort of gormless idiots we see on a Saturday evening performing Beethoven’s 5th on a hot water bottle while dressed as Spongebob Squarepants were OUR idiots.
That, even more than this, that they REPRESENTED the UK, that they SAID something about our nation either its glorious eccentricity or what a sorry state it was in - how naive we were.
Tonight’s BGT features Face Team, a basketball stunt team of Hungarian performers who don’t live or work in the UK but have apparently flown in from Hungary especially to appear on Britain’s Got Talent.
They follow hot on the wheels of Germany’s Dennis Egel who flew over here not, as David Walliams hoped, using the gigantic gold foil wings he was wearing, but on EasyJet.
Britain’s Got Talent’s producers confirmed yesterday that the show is open to anyone from the EU a state of affairs that suggests that perhaps EU’ve Been Framed would be a more apposite title.
It may seem harmless enough, but it shows how desperate the Dark Lord himself, Simon Cowell, is to find someone worthy of winning the show. Someone more marketable than Jai McDowall.
The pressure to deliver is greater than ever now that The Voice is beating BGT in the ratings.
It also suggests Simon has realised that after five previous series, the pool of “talent” in this country is drying up.
What he would do if someone from abroad actually WON Britain’s Got Talent remains to be seen.
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