The producers of America’s Got Talent have devised a brilliant solution to Simon Cowell’s loss of voice and inability to provide criticisms to candidates.
Simon, 63, was unable to speak on the most recent edition of the talent show, forcing those behind the scenes to devise a means for him to participate in the panel.
The judge could scarcely make a sound when he took the stage during the fifth week of tryouts.
Unwilling to let Simon go, presenter Terry Crews offered him with a clever alternative that he had devised.
Terry said at the opening of the presentation that there will be a “prize” for the long-serving judge.
‘Being the great person that I am, I got a gift for him,’ he explained.
‘I have a special soundboard that has been loaded up with thousands of comments – a lot of things he’s said over the years – so we’ll be able to hear Simon Cowell.’
Simon’s comments from prior seasons of the programme were rehashed at that moment, allowing him to simultaneously welcome and condemn this week’s hopeful participants.
He was also able to target fellow judge Howie Mandel, with one of the buttons saying, ‘Howie, shut up!’
Revealing what happened during filming while speaking to People earlier this year, Howie joked it was ‘serendipitous that Simon lost his voice finally’.
When Simon was unable to talk during the interview, he answered in a raspy voice that he was “at a loss for words.”
There were no Golden Buzzers given during the show, but ten acts were pushed through to the next round, including Disney fans The Sharpe Family Singers, canine act Adrian Stoica and Hurricane, and acrobat Chen Lei.
Simon was recently choked up on Britain’s Got Talent, unable to speak during the final.
While he was supposed to be the first to provide criticism following Amy Lou Smith’s emotive performance of Christina Aguilera’s ballad Reflection from the Disney film Mulan, Simon was unable to speak, pointing to his throat as he took a sip of water.
When the spotlight returned to Simon, he was still struggling and instead asked Amy to tell the audience what winning the series would mean to her.
America’s Got Talent airs on NBC in the US.
Source My Celebrity Life.
