Britain’s Got Talent is said to be planning to shake things up with a ‘major change’ to the final set of auditions next year. The 2025 series is expected to launch early next year, and will consist of the usual run of eight audition episodes, five semi-finals and a live final; with Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon..
. and a temporary judge in rapper and boxer KSI on the panel. But when the show airs its audition episodes, it will do so with a big change to tradition – and location.
The long-running ITV talent competition was scheduled to host its final set of auditions in the London Palladium when it resumed filming next year. However, in a reported U-turn, a BGT insider has claimed that the show is now set to relocate to Blackpool for the remaining auditions. Boss and head judge Simon is said to have given the thumbs up to the plan after being impressed by the ‘electric’ atmosphere in this year’s Blackpool auditions.
An insider told The Sun : ‘BGT is a show that hangs on the audience and how they react — and basically the crowd in Blackpool is absolutely brilliant. ‘The Palladium is such an iconic venue but if you compare the shows in Blackpool to the ones they have filmed in London, the audience is way more up for it there. ‘The auditions resume in the new year and they’ll all be filmed up in Blackpool.
’ The tabloid’s source continued: ‘Boss Simon Cowell has given the green light to the move and just wants the show to be the best it can.
