Britain’s Got Talent viewers sobbing after Post Office scandal victims unite with powerful message

Britain’s Got Talent judges and viewers at home were left teary eyed after a choir affected by the Post Office delivered an emotional performance. During tonight’s episode, judges Bruno Tonioli, Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, and Alesha Dixon, saw Hear Our Voice take to the stage with choir leader Tim revealing to Simon that they were all directly impacted by the controversy surrounding the national organisation. ‘We only meet up when we were going through terrible times, and we wanted to put something together that gave us some joy,’ Tim said. Commenting on the scandal, music mogul Simon, 65, said: ‘What happened I think was just shocking and I really hope that you win this battle because it was disgusting how you were all treated, I mean seriously, disgusting.’ Fellow choir member Jess added: ‘We’re just a very big family that have got together to let our voices out and let the world know that we’re all going to get through this fight.’ Get personalised updates on your favourite TV shows Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro’s TV Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we’ll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you. The highly- publicised scandal saw more than 700 Post Office branch managers were given criminal convictions when faulty accounting software Horizon made it look as though cash was missing from their sites between 1999 and 2015. The choir involved those affected by the Post Office scandal (Picture: itv)Provider: ITV / Britain’s Got Talent ‘What happened I think was just shocking and I really hope that you win this battle,’ said Simon (Picture: ITV) Dozens of innocent people were sent to jail for theft and fraud and others were driven to bankruptcy and suicide. After the performance, Simon declared the choir was ‘going to win’ and that the ‘public are behind them.’ And he was certainly right about that as fans couldn’t stop praising the heartwarming performance online. @SPTattooLady shared on Twitter/X: ‘The Post Office Choir have got me in tears.’ To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page @CharlieFarnsba9 added: ‘I don’t normally pay much attention to #BGT but this act by the Post Office Submasters is fantastic, what an incredible audition.’ @DannyDenay gushed: ‘Holy s**t they’re good! Really really good! Which makes voting for them a lot easier because this Post Office scandal choir is definitely going to win #BGT this year!’ SHANEOfficial penned: ‘The Post Office scandal needs to be shouted about from the rooftops forever. The injustice was just horrible. This was a beautiful message.’ The scandal was later turned into an ITV drama starring the likes of Will Mellor, Toby Jones and Monica Dolan, the drama took the country by storm, and launched one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history back into the spotlight. The programme prompted public outrage and helped put the Horizon scandal under the spotlight. Mr Bates vs The Post Office told the shocking true story of the Horizon scandal (Picture: ITV) Kevin Lygo, the managing director of media and entertainment of ITV, told the Voice of the Listener & Viewer (VLV) spring conference on Wednesday: ‘Mr Bates has made a loss of something like a million pounds and we can’t continually do this. ‘Of course, some things are very profitable on the channel, and some things aren’t. ‘But it’s a challenge to be able to fund some of the things that aren’t, obviously, of international appeal. ‘We’re hoping this may be because it caused such a furore here that maybe sales will pick up, but there’s no evidence of it yet. ‘If you’re in Lithuania, four hours on the British Post Office? Not really, thank you very much. So you can see the challenges here.’ He said the challenge for mainstream television broadcasters at the moment is ‘getting enough audiences to turn up on the night’ to watch their shows. Lygo explained that