Overview
- Performing Elbow’s One Day Like This at the Birmingham Hippodrome, the Hawkstone Farmers Choir moved the audience and secured Amanda Holden’s Golden Buzzer for a direct path to the live semi-finals.
- The judging panel featured Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, KSI and guest judge Stacey Solomon, who stepped in during Simon Cowell’s absence from those auditions.
- After the episode aired, Holden surprised the choir at a watch party at The Fox at Oddington, celebrating their Golden Buzzer moment with members and families.
- Jeremy Clarkson posted an emotional Instagram video praising the farmers’ performance and said he “welled up,” thanking Holden for sending them through.
- Formed through Clarkson’s Hawkstone project, the choir says it aims to raise awareness and funds for farming-related mental-health and suicide-prevention charities, including donating potential winnings.