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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jonesy Well.

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Speaker 2: Our next guess is one of Britain's best loved entertainers.

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Speaker 2: Not only was he one half of Little Britain, he's

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Speaker 2: written a gazillion very successful children's books and he's been

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Speaker 2: a judge on the hit show Britain's Got Talent for

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Speaker 2: ten years, so we're very excited to hear that he's

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Speaker 2: joining the judging panel for the Australian version of the series.

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Speaker 2: He certainly has talent. David Walliams, Hello, Hello, good morning.

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Speaker 3: They'll have to extend the desk because we've got.

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Speaker 4: Kate already on there, Kate Richie and Shane Jacobson and

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Speaker 4: who else.

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Speaker 3: Is on there? Then Alisha Dixon, Alisha Dixon and.

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Speaker 1: You Yes, yeah, So me and Alisha have come from

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Speaker 1: Britain's Got Talent to join Australia's Got Talent this year

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Speaker 1: and we've been filming the auditions and the semifinals. We've

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Speaker 1: actually now only got the final still to film and

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Speaker 1: it's all going to be on TV from October the time.

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting show because of all the TV shows,

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Speaker 2: not only do you get the fun kooks, but you

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Speaker 2: also get people who go on to have great recording careers,

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Speaker 2: dancing careers, people who become famous. It's such an interesting

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Speaker 2: grab bag, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Well, Yeah, and it's good that the show around the

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Speaker 1: World has produced, you know, some stars over the years,

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Speaker 1: because I think that just encourages more and more people

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Speaker 1: to sign up an audition threat because obviously some people

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Speaker 1: maybe you already feel they've got a bit of a career,

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Speaker 1: even if they're not particularly well known. They might think, oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to risk it, but actually you can

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Speaker 1: see there are huge, huge rewards if you get it right.

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Speaker 1: And I think when these shows sort of started there

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Speaker 1: was a little bit of sort of snobbery about them,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think I don't feel that now. I

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Speaker 1: think if you've kind of grown up with them and

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Speaker 1: they have been going for like a decade or so,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just part of the landscape of how

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Speaker 1: you can become successful.

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Speaker 4: And you look at the success stories in Australia. Just

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Speaker 4: at the top of my man, I'm thinking about tim Imaji.

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Speaker 4: These people have gone on and forward's great careers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've not heard of them, but.

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Speaker 4: Mendia he was great as well.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it has to do what he

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Speaker 1: says on the tin, doesn't. I mean, you know, there

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Speaker 1: has to be there has to be something to win

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Speaker 1: that's worthwhile. I think that's important. But you know this show.

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Speaker 1: I love about the show. It's it's all about surprises

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Speaker 1: and there's no barriers anyone who wants to enter cat

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Speaker 1: you know, there's no rules. So you could be five

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Speaker 1: years old, you want to be one hundred years old,

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Speaker 1: you can be on it. You know, you could have

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Speaker 1: been doing your acts fifty years beyond it. You could

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Speaker 1: have never done a gig before, and you can come on.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's open to everyone. And I think and

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Speaker 1: you can never predict, or very rarely predict whether you

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Speaker 1: think someone's going to be good or not, and that

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Speaker 1: is part of the real pleasure of the show. And

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Speaker 1: also I think the show doesn't take itself too seriously,

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Speaker 1: which I think is another thing that people generally like

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Speaker 1: about it. I think sometimes some of the singing competitions

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Speaker 1: they get very very serious. But Got Talent is is

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Speaker 1: so much about just fun and about just entertaining people

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Speaker 1: in a silly way. And it doesn't always have to

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Speaker 1: be you know, some heavy or serious themes, and you

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Speaker 1: can come and do anything. And do you think you

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Speaker 1: know you can come on and juggle with a couple

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Speaker 1: of ping pong balls and you think that's going to

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Speaker 1: tame people. You can come on and do that, or

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Speaker 1: play the spoons or whatever. There's you know you could

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Speaker 1: the only limits of your imagination.

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Speaker 3: We've seen this firsthand many years ago.

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Speaker 4: There was a guy that played a vacuum cleaner and

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Speaker 4: he went through to the finals in Australia's Got Talent.

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Speaker 4: He actually campaigned outside our studio playing his vacuum Amanda.

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Speaker 3: She didn't want to let him into the building.

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Speaker 2: He looked a little underned.

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Speaker 4: I said, if you had John Lennon outside your building,

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Speaker 4: would you say no?

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Speaker 2: Then I was happy for just to come in and vacuum.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, he came in to play his vacuum cleaner.

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Speaker 3: And he burst. The vacuum broke.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we wrecked his career in one go. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: Oh dear, sounds is so.

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Speaker 1: Promising an idiot.

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Speaker 2: You were a big hit.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, you know the thing is as a

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Speaker 1: as a fan of the show. Before I was on

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Speaker 1: Britain's Got Talent in the UK, I was just watching

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Speaker 1: it as a fan and I actually people playing Hoover's

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Speaker 1: was the whole reason I wanted to watch the show,

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Speaker 1: not really people who were really talented. So I think

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Speaker 1: they're a big part of the show, you know. So

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Speaker 1: I think the more and more sort of silly acts

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Speaker 1: there are, the better. As far as I'm concerned.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's good, that's good fun.

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Speaker 4: But as anyone actually parlayed a Korea out of playing

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Speaker 4: a vacuum other than cleaning up in a high rise building,

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Speaker 4: but they can you make a career out of it.

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Speaker 1: Probably not a major international career like I sort of Elson,

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Speaker 1: John O, Paul McCartney, but probably you can probably can

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Speaker 1: earn a living.

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Speaker 4: Elton's coming back and maybe he might incorporate a vacuum

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Speaker 4: into his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road tour.

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Speaker 3: This could be a theme.

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Speaker 1: I think unlikely. We can live in hope.

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Speaker 3: Well, David, it's always great to talk to you. Australia's

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Speaker 3: got talent. We'll premiere on Channel seven and seven plus

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Speaker 3: later this year. David Williams, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me