ITV Britain's Got Talent fans share complaint over 'cringe' change as show return hit by blow

Britain's Got Talent fans were left making the same 'cringe' complaint as the show returned for a double helping over the weekend. The 16th series of the hit ITV talent show kicked off on Saturday night before being back on-screen on Sunday night as Bruno Tonioli made his debut on the judging panel alongside Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Simon Cowell.

The quartet headed to London's Palladium and The Lowry in Salford earlier this year for the audition stages of the competition as they looked for the next talented star who will get the opportunity to before in front of the royal family - and possibly the new King Charles - at the Royal Variety Show later this year. And there's also the small matter of the £250,000 prize fund.

Viewers got their first taste of what to expect from the series with the double airing of BGT over the weekend - including a children’s dance group from Uganda who bagged the series’ first golden buzzer, which sends the act straight through to the competition’s live semi-final, from former Strictly star Bruno.

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The first episode also featured a 13-year-old magician from Ireland, a Japanese comedian who travelled with an interpreter to the competition, a Darth Vader-dressed keyboardist and a recorder player who used his nose to play his instrument. Meanwhile, Sunday night saw Simon Cowell hit his golden buzzer for 13-year-old opera singer, Malakai.

But it wasn't the acts themselves that just got viewers talking as some fans were quick to complain about the opening of both episodes as they begged for change. Sunday night's episode saw Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly 'loose' the judges and ended up on Coronation Street. The duo