Britain's Got Talent 2021 has been given the chop after ITV chiefs realised they couldn't make it work in the global pandemic.
As The Mirror exclusively revealed this week, BGT bosses were on the verge of scrapping this year's series after being forced to push back production thanks to another lockdown and the spiralling Covid-19 infection rate in the first part of January.
They had hoped that auditions could go ahead in the summer ready for an autumn start date, with live finals pencilled in for the end of the year.
But now the Ant and Dec-fronted show will be pulled entirely from schedules and is unlikely to air again until spring 2022. In a statement, the producers and broadcaster admitted defeat after it proved impossible to plan
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