Why, in a choice for someone to judge talent for someone to perform in front of the Queen, when they could have chosen from a whole host of record producers, singers and other people who know talent, did they pick ex-ex-ex-newspaper editor/big-headed diary writer/snob Piers Morgan?

Since when have any of his jobs had anything to do with judging talent?

I suppose the argument would be that he has had his finger on the pulse of pop culture for years in his job. The idea would be that, like Cowell, he knows what is popular with the public.

Well he was just given the job as a try out in America by Simon who liked him...no real reason, he discusses it in his diaries though i think he's good at it myself!

As the saying goes, it's not what you know - it's who you know. I bet he's best mates with all of the movers and shakers in the TV industry. Talent and ability is not a consideration, under those circumstances.

He was rubbish as newspaper editor anyway. Let him have his celebrity, he can do less damage on this pointless, squalid little show !

Loved it when Ian Hislop savaged him on Have I Got News For You, a few years ago. You see he can dish it out, but he's not so clever at taking it. His massive, oversized ego can't cope.

I have to admit he is good value on programmes such as Question Time. You just know it won't be boring if he's on, like him or loathe him, he is often controversial and forthright. I rarely agree with him, but I'll always watch when he's on QT.

Couldn't agree more?

I read his books - yes, both - and I disliked far more by the end than I thought possible...

He's so smug...

Pity about Piers

I can't stand the bloke with a passion and I do struggle to watch BGT purely because he's on it. Thankfully I adore Ant and Dec so it sort of balances it out. But I have no idea why he is judging either.

He's a good judge. He let's the so-bad-they're-good acts continue with what they are doing which is always good television.