Bruno Tonioli snaps at Alison Hammond for 'nasty' request in awkward This Morning moment

Britain's Got Talent's Bruno Tonioli appeared to become frustrated on when asked about a contestant who was plucked from the talent show's audience, telling off host for being "nasty". The BGT judge appeared on This Morning today alongside Simon Cowell to chat about tomorrow's live semi-final.

Speaking about last weekend's viral moment, which saw audience member Max Fox be given the chance to audition for the judges before receiving a Golden Buzzer, Simon insisted that the moment hadn't been set up. "Do you know what? I'll do it - take a lie detector test on live TV," he said.

"It's funny you say that because we actually have a lie detector test," Alison joked, with Simon saying: "I'll do it." Bruno then jumps in, saying: "Why do you always have to go for the nasty? It is not set up my darling."

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Simon then defended Alison and Dermot, saying: "They're not being nasty." While a puzzled Dermot added: "Bruno, we're not being nasty."

However, the misunderstanding was quickly cleared up, with Alison beginning to chuckle and Simon saying: "We're actually not that smart." Any tension was immediately cut and Bruno burst out laughing himself.

Simon later went onto reveal how he first met Bruno back in the 1980s. "We had a mutual friend - Bruno was a dancer, I had started a record label and then Bruno became a choreographer," he said.

"Over the years, we became friends and then we started to work together. I had this band, Il Divo, and I needed to get them ready to perform.

"I said, 'I've got a great guy for you guys to work with, he's called Bruno.' And I told Bruno all about it and he worked with them for weeks."

Bruno added: "And I love opera, I love music."

Tomorrow night's semi-final is the first live show of the series, with eight acts taking to the stage. They include Vinnie McKee, who revealed in an exclusive chat that he as he felt the presence of his late brother on stage with him.

“He would have been so excited for me,” Vinnie said of his brother Frankie, who died from a suspected irregular heartbeat at just 47. “As soon as I was on that stage, I just felt something with me. When I came off stage and met my family for the first time, my mum burst into tears and so did I.

“I said, ‘He was definitely watching me,’ and she said, ‘He definitely was.’ He would have loved it.”

This Morning airs weekdays from 10am on ITV1 and ITVX.

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