Piers: 'Big Brother celebrates the talentless'

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Piers: 'Big Brother celebrates the talentless'
Piers: 'Big Brother celebrates the talentless'

Britain's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan says the show is the opposite of Big Brother. He told the Radio Times: "Big Brother is about celebrating the talentless... Britain's Got Talent is 100 per cent about celebrating talent. "It not only provokes genuine debate in a tough time for the country, it's put Britain back on the map as a producer of talent." He added: "I think that Susan Boyle has come as the antidote to the recession." Piers, who is four years younger than Susan, 48, added: "In one little old lady from Scotland we have the cure to all known financial ills." Speaking about cynicism over the show's auditions, Piers assured fans that judges have no contact with acts before they go on stage. He said: "I can tell you that on BGT the moment the acts walk in front of the judges is absolutely pure. "We genuinely have no idea what is coming our way."

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.