One eagle-eyed Britain’s Got Talent fan discovered an intriguing detail about the show regarding Ant and Dec after Sydnie Christmas was announced as the winner on Sunday night.
The budding West End star, 28, scooped the coveted £250,000 prize and will perform at the Royal Variety Show after impressing judges Simon Cowell, Bruno Tonioli, Alesha Dixon and Amanda Holden and winning over the voting public .
She beat out ten other notable acts with her performance of Somewhere Over the Rainbow after a packed episode.
After Ant announced Sydnie as the winner of the show, a fan took to X, formerly Twitter, to inform viewers about a dark pattern that has developed throughout the show since it first aired in 2007.
They wrote: “A well-deserved win for Sydnie Christmas, but an even bigger win for #BGTfact fans who will be delighted to know that the pattern has continued and Ant has announced this year’s winner.”
One eagle-eyed Britain’s Got Talent fan discovered an intriguing detail about the show regarding Ant and Dec after Sydnie Christmas was announced as the winner on Sunday night.
The budding West End star, 28, scooped the coveted £250,000 prize and will perform at the Royal Variety Show.
This was accompanied by a spreadsheet laying out every show the couple had hosted together since they first hosted Pop Idol in 2002.
It discovered that the pair had alternately announced the winners for the past nine years in a row, dating back to 2014, when Dec confirmed that musical theater group Collabro were that year’s victors.
The trend was also consistent in the other shows the duo hosted in the past, as both announced one Pop Idol winner each, crowning Will Young as champion in 2002 and Michelle McManus doing the same in 2003.
The pattern can also be seen in which of the duo has announced the champion of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! – and each of them took turns announcing the winner for almost two decades since Dec did it twice in 2005 and 2006.
A response to the post also noted that “Ant even took the right year off” to help the sequence continue, referring to the break he took from submitting his BGT duties in 2021.
It comes after Britain’s Got Talent fans took to social media to express their outrage at Sydnie Christmas winning the show, with viewers accusing the show of being fixed after discovering she had already enjoyed of a career in music.
Addressing X, fans fumed: ‘Total solution.’ She IS a professional performer.’
“I think you have singles and a professional singer stinks of being dolled up and put together.”
‘One absolute solution and she murdered Somewhere Over The Rainbow. And she is a “professional”…’.
Sydnie is pictured cuddling with BGT judge Amanda Holden after winning Sunday night’s final.
An X user posted a spreadsheet of all the shows the couple had hosted together since they first hosted Pop Idol in 2002.
It found that the pair had alternately announced the winners for the past nine consecutive years, dating back to 2014.
‘Sydnie Christmas a PROFESSIONAL singer, with a song already on Spotify. She has won Britain’s Got Talent. What a total solution, I’m so glad I stopped watching that shit years and years ago!!!’
“She shouldn’t have won either because she’s already a PROFESSIONAL singer.”
“I saw on social media, if true, that Sydnie Christmas was in a production of Starlight Express in Germany, that sounds professional to me.”
The reaction in response to Sydnie’s win comes after similar sentiments expressed by fans early in the audition process.
Sydnie has worked on cruise ships, including the Royal Caribbean International, where she played Rizzo in the musical Grease.
She made her London debut as one of the lead vocals in Lazarus, set to the music of David Bowie, at the King’s Cross Theater and shared a backstage snap with Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson after he attended the show.
As a previous post noted, she then appeared in a German production of Starlight Express in 2019 as Belle the Bar Car.
Sydnie celebrates after being crowned the winner of Britain’s Got Talent for 2024
