America’s Acquired Expertise will look barely completely different this season because of the brand new Golden Buzzer rule.
Throughout season 19, as an alternative of the judges — Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum, Simon Cowell and Sofia Vergara — every having one Golden Buzzer, they are going to have two. (The Golden Buzzer ensures that an act strikes on to the Reside Exhibits.)
Host Terry Crews may also have his personal Golden Buzzer, that means there are 9 alternatives for an act to earn the coveted accolade.
“There’s so many instances we wanted to offer a Golden Buzzer and also you ran out,” Crews, 55, completely instructed Us Weekly on the Pasadena Civic Auditorium for the America’s Acquired Expertise season 19 auditions pink carpet. “It’s type of like working out of Halloween sweet. You understand what I imply? And other people [are] nonetheless coming to the home. And you retain having to apologize. Not the season, not the season.”
Crews famous that “everybody that wants and deserves” a Golden Buzzer “will be capable of get one this yr.” Mandel, for his half, couldn’t consider the information of the extra Golden Buzzer.
“Once we first acquired observe of the Golden Buzzer, initially, I assumed, ‘Wow,’” Mandel, 68, recalled. “There are moments the place you simply go, ‘Wow,’ and your jaw simply drops on that desk and also you don’t know find out how to specific it and the ability of having the ability to say, ‘Wow,’ together with your hand on a Golden Buzzer and push any person proper to the stay exhibits was wonderful.”
For Mandel, the ability doubling makes “this season epic” in comparison with earlier ones.
Cowell, in the meantime, will not be as excited concerning the Golden Buzzer as his 10-year-old son Eric. Cowell, who shares his son with Lauren Silverman, mentioned Eric is “all the time curious” concerning the phenomenon.
“[He asks], ‘Did you press the Golden Buzzer? What was it? Why’d you do it?’” Cowell, 64, instructed Us. “And typically he disagrees or, ‘Why did you give that the Golden Buzzer?’”
Eric even tried his hand on the Golden Buzzer after getting himself concerned within the motion.
“This yr within the U.Ok., the viewers acquired so overrated about one thing,” Cowell recalled. “They inspired him and one other choose’s daughter to press the Golden Buzzer and so they simply ran up and pressed it and I’m like, ‘That’s by no means occurred earlier than.’ And I seemed on the producers [and] they went, ‘It’s a Golden Buzzer.’ So he’s carried out his first one.”
America’s Acquired Expertise premieres on NBC Tuesday, Might 28, at 8 p.m. ET. Episodes will be streamed the subsequent day on Peacock.
With reporting by Kevin Zelman