JEREMY Clarkson choked up as he broke his silence on his farming choir’s epic Britain’s Got Talent performance.
JEREMY Clarkson choked up as he broke his silence on his farming choir’s epic Britain’s Got Talent performance.
The vocalists from The Hawkstone Farmer’s Choir. left the ITV judges – and live show audience – in tears with their performance, and bagged Amanda Holden’s Golden Buzzer in the process.
32 individuals including farmers and those in the agriculture industry were brought together by the Clarkson’s Farm star in 2024 and have continued to perform together ever since.
On Saturday’s Britain’s Got Talent episode, they gave their rendition of Elbow’s One Day Like This and scooped a standing ovation from the crowd in Blackpool.
Taking to his Instagram grid shortly after the show aired, former Top Gear anchor Jeremy was clearly emotional.
He wore a checked white shirt as he perched on a chair to give his take and said: “Hello everybody, I watched Britain’s Got Talent last night for the first time because the Hawkstone Choir were on
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“And they were just fantastic.
“These guys are all farmers and they work incredibly hard for really, incredibly small rewards.
“To see them all on that stage with all that love in the room made my heart sing – I actually welled up.
“And thank you Amanda Holden for pressing that Golden Buzzer thing, I don’t know what that means but it obviously is important”.
Struggling to manage his emotions, he paused before he continued: “Yeah, yeah it shows that I think people quite like farmers.
“And they were very, very good.
“Well done all of you, I am a very happy man tonight.
“That choir is fab, yeah, sorry that’s it,” before tailing off as he became choked up.
His Instagram followers were quick to agree and one commented: “I’m so happy for the @thehawkstonefarmerschoir”.
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- Loren Allred – Loren Allred, 32, from Brooklyn, New York jetted to London to audition after recording the vocals for The Greatest Showman. The stunning singer got a standing ovation and a Golden Buzzer from the judges as she delivered a stirring rendition of Never Enough from the popular film. Loren came out on stage and revealed to the judges they would have heard her voice many times before that moment. “I was hired to record the vocals for The Greatest Showman as a guide for the actors to know how to sing the songs,” she explained. Loren then revealed actress Rebecca Ferguson was so stunned by her singing that she decided to let her vocals be heard in the movie. “So she lip-synced,” Loren said.
- Chicken Shed Theatre Company – Comprised of individuals aged between 5 and 37, the group was set up to welcome anyone irrespective of background to get up on stage and perform and fulfil their dream. Chicken Shed prides itself on accepting anyone and does not hold auditions to make the group a safe and inclusive space. The group wowed as they performed Wonder by Naughty Boy featuring Emeli Sande. It meant that Alesha wasted no time as she decided to hit her golden buzzer for the young performers. She told them it was her “honour” to reward their inclusiveness with her golden buzzer.
- The Dancing Granny – Granny Paddy Jones and her professional partner Niko Espinosa first hit headlines when they won the Spanish talent show Tú sí que vales in 2009, before going on to appear on Britain’s Got Talent in 2014 where they came ninth. Amanda Holden was so impressed with Paddy that she gave her the Golden Buzzer, which sent them straight through to the semi-finals. But things took a worrying turn when Paddy cracked a rib while rehearsing a new move and her place on the show was under doubt. She was given the all-clear to perform in the end but didn’t quite live up to expectations.
- Bars and Melody – They will forever be remembered for their anti-bullying song on the talent show. Bars and Melody were first seen on the 2014 series of Britain’s Got Talent, getting shuttled into the semi-finals when Simon Cowell pressed his Golden Buzzer. They made it to the final thanks to a performance of I’ll Be Missing You but lost out on the crown to Collabro. These days Charlie Lenehan – known as Melody – is covered in tattoos, with inkings on his neck, arms and chest. But he is as close as ever to co-star Leondre Devries – who is Bars – with the pair seen enjoying themselves in exotic locations all over the world.
A second put: “People love farmers!!! The government don’t seem to share that opinion nor do I’m afraid supermarkets on the whole. Keep up the epic work!!!!”
A third wrote: “Great work to support our amazing farmers”.
Another simply put: “They were amazing!!”
Ahead of their pitch perfect audition, one choir member gave a well-deserved shoutout to Jezza in front of the judges and the programme’s audience.
She said: “Jeremy Clarkson did a thing… Jeremy brought us together to sing, and it’s just really been amazing for us all.”
Aged between 27 and 74, she went on to say to the panel of judges: “Every single one of us is in agriculture in some way or another. This isn’t our day jobs; we’re usually out in the fields!
“We work by ourselves day in and day out, sometimes 16, 17 hours a day. This has brought us together.
“We’re not singers by nature. It’s brought us as a family – we have one thing that unites us and that is farming.
“We love what we do but it can be incredibly hard: really lonely, very isolating.
“To do this all together, it’s meant the world to us.”
On the night, Amanda could also be seen with tears in her eyes as the choir could be seen jumping for joy at the news they would be making it through to the semi-finals.
Speaking through her tears, Amanda said: “As you started, I completely welled up. I felt so much power.
“I love the whole community. I love how you’ve all got together and work your a***s off.
“You work so hard every single day.
“You absolutely smashed it and I can’t wait to see what you do in the semi-finals. Congratulations.”
