ITV's Official Press Release Photograph for Series 18.
Series 18 of Britain's Got Talent is set to be aired in 2025 from Saturday 22nd February. Hosts Ant & Dec returned as presenters, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon returned to the Judging panel throughout the auditions, though both Simon Cowell and Bruno Tonioli only appeared on a sporadic basis during the audition tapings with KSI covering Bruno in some tapings and Bruno covering Simon in other tapings which occurred during late 2024, though both Simon and Bruno would return on a more permanent basis during the 2025 audition tapings.
This series retained a change in the Golden Buzzer format which was introduced in the previous series, where each judge was given the power to push the buzzer twice in the auditions if they so wished to do so, though despite this, Ant & Dec were still kept at 1 Golden Buzzer which they shared.
Tapings were held from the 15th of October 2024 to the 16th of October 2024 and 7th of January to 12th of January at Winter Gardens, Blackpool. Auditions began airing on Saturday February 22nd 2025, before the following episodes aired weekly each Saturday.
This series saw the return of the sister show "Britain's Got Talent: Unseen Bits” which was hosted by Ant & Dec and featured the auditions of extra acts whose performances couldn’t be fit into the runtime of the main show for the first time since Series 14.
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Auditions[]
Main Article: Series 18 Auditions
The auditions for Series 18 started being filmed in October 2024, before continuing to be filmed in January 2025 after a two month break, though in an change from tradition, the auditions for this series were but solely filmed in Blackpool.
Each act that performed in front of the judges was given 2 minutes to demonstrate their talents for the four judges. If an act received four buzzes then their performance is ended early. At least three "Yes" votes from the judges are required for an act to be accepted into the Next Round, otherwise, they are eliminated from the competition. Should one of the judges or Ant & Dec hit the Golden Buzzer for one of the acts, that act will be sent straight to the Semi-Finals.
Deliberation Day[]
From all of the accepted acts from the auditions, X were chosen to join the X Golden Buzzer acts in the Live Semi-Finals.
Semi-Finals[]
The judges pulled 40 successful acts from the auditions to perform on the Live Semi-Finals with 8 acts being revealed each night including the Golden Buzzer Acts. From the 40 acts, 8 acts performed each week over 5 consecutive week. Each week, the top act in the public vote advanced immediately on to the Final. The judges voted between the acts placing in 2nd and 3rd for the second spot in the Final each week.
Semi-Final 1[]
Main Article: Episode 1809
Semi-Final 2[]
Main Article: Episode 1810
Semi-Final 3[]
Main Article: Episode 1811
Semi-Final 4[]
Main Article: Episode 1812
Semi-Final 5[]
Main Article: Episode 1813
Grand Final[]
Main Article: Episode 1814
After five weeks of the Semi-Finals being aired live on a weekly basis solely on Saturdays in a similar vein to Series 14, the Final will be broadcast live on Saturday 31st May 2025.
Trivia[]
- This is the first series where 2 Golden Buzzers were given out in two episodes.
- This is the second series to have the live shows aired weekly, the first being Series 14.