Alan Carr breaks silence on BGT 'snub' after losing out on judging role
ok.co.ukAlan Carr has broken his silence after being 'snubbed' to appear on the Britain's Got Talent judging panel.The 47 year old funnyman was widely rumoured to be stepping up to the panel following the departure of David Walliams, 52, in 2022.
However, it was eventually announced that former Strictly judge Bruno Tonioli, 67, would in fact be taking on the role. Now, Alan has spoken out as he revealed he'd read in the papers that he'd got the job, to then later discover that he in fact didn't, and Bruno had it instead.
He said: “I was driving along the M25 and then it’s, ‘ping, ping, ping’ on my phone. I’m like, ‘Oh my God, someone’s died — or my sex tape has come out!’ “So I pulled over and it was messages saying I’d got the job and it was all in the papers.Then I had a meeting with them and they said, ‘Oh yeah . . .’ and they said I’d find out.” Alan said: “I don’t really know what went on.
It was that awful thing of people saying I was devastated. I was on the set of my sitcom, which I wrote and I’m producing, so I was not devastated about not being on BGT." He said that friends accused him of not telling them what was going on with BGT, but he said 'I was never told'.
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