http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1032682_bugging_device_found_at_auditions?rss=yes
Bugging device found at auditions
17/ 1/2008
POLICE were called to the audition venue for Britain's Got Talent
today after a bugging device was discovered under the judges' table.
The surveillance equipment had been left overnight in the judges'
room, where Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan embarked on
a second day of filming.
Suspicions were aroused when the device caused interference with the
sound and film equipment for the recording of the audition process of
the hit Saturday night ITV1 show.
When the equipment was found police were called to the venue, the
Palace Theatre in Manchester, where fire-eaters, acrobats, dancers
and singers are hoping to get the chance to make their name on the show.
There was a 20-minute delay in filming this morning as police investigated.
Cowell said afterwards: "This shows the extent to which people will
go to to get inside knowledge on what is going on."
Freelance
TV bosses believe there is a possibility that a freelance journalist
could have planted the device to find out what was being said in the
judges' room.
A statement from Greater Manchester Police said: "At about 12.30pm...
police were informed that a recording device had been discovered at
the Palace Theatre, Oxford Street.
"While officers were at the theatre investigating this incident, they
were asked by theatre management to advise a 45-year-old man that he
would be ejected because he had unauthorised access.
"The man's details were checked and he was arrested in connection
with an unconnected speeding offence."
Last year, former Carphone Warehouse manager Paul Potts won a record
deal and the chance to perform at Royal Variety Performance in front
of the Queen.
Ant and Dec will be back at the helm when the show returns later this year.
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