Simon Cowell makes dig at The Voice in Britain's Got Talent live shows

Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell made a dig at The Voice UK on tonight’s Britain’ Got Talent live shows, insisting that a star needed more than good vocals.

The music mogul was talking to boy group The Mend as they performed on the first semi-final final.

He told them, to howls from Amanda Holden: “Being a star in the music business is more than just a Voice.”

He explained: “You gotta have charisma, you gotta have chemistry. You’ll have girls loving you.”

But Simon also praised the group – who performed a mash up of Cutting Crew’s I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight and Tinie Tempah’s Written In The Stars – on their voice too.

“I thought your choices of songs were brilliant,” he told the Manchester boy group. “There’s a gap in the market for you right now. We’ve had Take That, East 17, your vocals were brilliant.”

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