There were mixed reactions especially in Uganda after the Triplets Ghetto Kids got the golden buzzer during their maiden performance at Britain’s Got Talent competition on Saturday evening.
The Ghetto Kids received the buzzer from Judge Bruno Tonioli who was also making his debut replacing David Walliams on the judging panel.
It is said that Tonioli, a former Strictly Come Dancing judge appeared on this specific show having never watched it before and because he had never seen the ITV show, he didn’t realize that he was supposed to press his red buzzer to reject hopeful contestants mid-audition. Instead, he did it after they’d finished.
Tonioli pressed his golden buzzer in the middle of an act’s audition yet he had to wait until it was finished.
“No, you don’t have to do that as well,” Simon Cowell, one of the judges told him.
After it happened, Tonioli spoke to OK! magazine, saying: “Alesha gave me a brief, but then I forgot everything she told me! I think that was obvious when I pressed my golden buzzer at the wrong time on the first day!”
“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 added: “I looked up and Simon was in stitches, Alesha looked shocked! But that happened. I mean, it wasn’t planned. I honestly had no idea I’d do that at the moment.”
The golden buzzer means the Ugandan dancers went straight through to the live semi-finals of the completion.
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