Britain’s Got More Talent thrown into ‘chaos’ due to Stephen Mulhern

The hugely anticipated new series of Britain's Got Talent kicks off this weekend, and with it comes its popular spin-off show, Britain's Got More Talent with host Stephen Mulhern.

However, it has now been revealed that filming for the show was 'thrown into chaos' a few months back after Stephen picked up a nasty bout of Laryngitis, meaning he was forced to go on voice rest.

Taking to Twitter at the time, Stephen wrote, 'Morning! Absolutely gutted to be missing the first round of @BGT auditions this week in Blackpool! I am on doctor’s strict orders to rest my voice, after suffering a nasty bout of Laryngitis - first day off from the show in 11 years. Unbelievable!' [sic]

Filming for the show was put on hold for four days, meaning the production crews had to play catch up when Stephen recovered from his illness.

OK! Magazine reports Stephen said, "The problem is that there was literally nothing that the team could do without me being there. That was the problem because the whole thing about More Talent is we do the fun side to the main show, we get away with a lot more, we do all the eccentric stuff, so there was simply nothing that could be done.

"Normally our day would start around 10.30am on camera and we’d finish about 1am. So, we had to recoup all that time we missed. What was four days off ended up being over nine days extra work. We had to get acts back that I’d missed which was just bizarre because some of them had been given a no by the judges but still wanted to come on our show."

Oh dear! 😬

Despite his sick days, it sounds like Stephen's job on the popular spin-off show is very safe. Revealing he told bosses of BGT to get someone else in to replace him, Stephen revealed that ITV dismissed his offer.

He said, "At one point, I did say they should get someone else to do the days I wasn’t there so that we still had content, but ITV said, and I took this as a huge compliment, that I’ve made the show my own and there’s no other presenter they could see doing it in the style I do it."

Meanwhile, ahead of the new series of Britain's Got More Talent, it was revealed yesterday that the judges' backstage comments have been recorded this year, meaning viewers will get to see exactly what they think of people when they forget they are on camera.

Stephen compared the new game to 'Russian Roulette' and revealed the judges often forget their microphones are still on backstage. He said, "It'll be like Russian Roulette, we'll play it and see who they were talking about. It's like they've never been on TV before, they know their microphone is on but they are still whispering.

We can't wait! 🙌

Check out the trailer for the brand new series of Britain's Got Talent, featuring Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams:

Britain's Got Talent returns to ITV at 8pm on Saturday 14th April, with Britain's Got More Talent following the programme straight after on ITV2.

Now check out all of the past BGT winners: