Oops! Britain’s got an unmasked audience

HAVE Britain’s Got Talent bosses been bending Covid rules while filming the new series? My spy in the wings at the London Palladium, where shows were being filmed last week, tells me that some people sitting directly behind judges including David Walliams and Amanda Holden, above, did not have to wear facemasks.

‘It seemed pretty obvious they were doing it so there would be no masks in the background of camera shots of the judges,’ I’m told. Everyone else – those at the sides, further back and in upper levels of the theatre, right – did have face coverings on. At the time of filming, maskwearing was compulsory in theatres.

A spokesman for the show’s production company Fremantle cited a loophole that allowed those involved in filming not to wear masks, adding: ‘They are socially distant from each other and the rest of the audience.’