Simon Cowell continues to pay BGT staff

Simon Cowell has continued to pay \'Britain\'s Got Talent\' staff despite the live shows being cancelled.

The 60-year-old music mogul - who created the ITV talent competition in 2006 - is still paying his crew, although the programme cannot push on with filming during the coronavirus pandemic.

His co-star Amanda Holden revealed to The Sun newspaper: "He\'s very generous. The way that he\'s dealt with his staff, paying them while the shows are off, he does everything right and he does it quietly."

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Last month it was revealed the ITV talent competition would have its live shows postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but the broadcaster\'s head of entertainment Katie Rawcliffe has now said they could still press on with the next stage of the show without the live audience.

She said: "It looks like we will have to do some shows without audiences. This whole experience has brought out more creativity in people and the best in people, we all have to think a bit harder about how we do things."

Katie confirmed live shows will not take place until later in the year, and said they are still "in stages of planning" how to tackle the difficult situation.

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What\'s more, Amanda has praise "generous" Simon for helping her with her NHS charity single \'Over The Rainbow\' as he offered Amanda to perform it on \'BGT\'.

She added: "He said to me I could sing on \'BGT\'. But I said first I\'d go round and play it to him to see what he thought. And I had to sit there while he listened. It was excruciating.

"He sat there with his earphones in and I just squirmed in the seat. I just sat there going, \'Why have I put myself through this?\'. But he was so lovely, encouraging and supportive. And he\'s a huge supporter of good causes too so I knew he\'d be right behind it."