Brave youngster Ella Chadwick received the coveted golden buzzer on Britain's Got Talent from David Walliams after performing with the signing choir Sign Along With Us - and she and show boss Simon Cowell go way back.
The inspirational 12-year-old was honoured by Simon at the Pride Of Britain Awards in 2018. Ella, from Rochdale, received the Child Of Courage prize by the reality show judge at the star-studded ceremony after raising £3,000 for the hospital where she has been treated for nephrotic syndrome, a kidney disorder which led to her undergoing 40 operations including a life-saving kidney transplant operation at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital in 2014 thanks to a donation from her grandma Christina Chadwick.
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