'Talent' judges horrified by knife-thrower

Simon Cowell told a girl who auditioned for Britain's Got Talent that he had saved her life after he rejected her.

Father and daughter Brian and Melanie Webber auditioned for the ITV1 reality series as a knife-throwing act, but Brian caused concern immediately when his shaky hands were spotted. Hosts Ant and Dec were horrified when they noticed that he could hardly hold a bottle of water in his hands because he was so nervous.

"Is this legal?" Ant asked. "You are about to throw knives at your daughter in front of 2,000 people, will you be able to hold it together?"

"I hope so," Melanie replied. "I might as well start shaking because I could be dead by the sound of things!"

The judges were forced to tell Brian and Melanie to stop the act almost immediately when Brian's knives consistently missed their targets and flew off around the stage.

"I had to stop you before you had an ex-daughter," judge Piers Morgan said.

Cowell added: "I just saved your life Melanie."

Britain's Got Talent airs at 9.30pm tonight on ITV1.