Amanda Holden on 'Got Talent': 'I don't want a singer to win' - video

Amanda Holden has revealed that she is looking for non-singing acts to win this year's Britain's Got Talent.

Holden admitted that she was disappointed with last year's victor, Scottish warbler Jai McDowall, and claimed that Got Talent will always suffer badly from X Factor comparisons if it focuses on singing talent.

"I would love for a singer not to win. Singers are the things that grab at you and immediately audiences have an affinity with, but it's not X Factor," Holden told Digital Spy.

"So I would love an elephant. A juggling elephant. Simon Cowell wants a guitar-playing dog. We could have a whole band. The Pedigree Chums."

Watch Digital Spy's video from the Britain's Got Talent launch below:


Meanwhile, Britain's Got More Talent ITV2 presenter Stephen Mulhern was the one star involved in the show who defended last year's series of BGT, insisting that it wasn't a disappointment.

Mulhern said that Cowell's return to the judging panel full-time would "lift everyone's game", but added: "I don't think anyone was off form last year."

Cowell, Holden, David Walliams and Alesha Dixon are currently touring the UK with the 2012 Britain's Got Talent auditions.


The audition dates still to come include:

• Winter Gardens, Blackpool: January 24


• Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: January 28-29


• The Apollo, London: February 6-8


• Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: February 11


• The ICC, Birmingham: February 17-19

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