{"id":17511,"date":"2026-03-31T06:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=17511"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:42:44","slug":"im-just-a-waiter-but-give-me-one-note-and-ill-prove-you-wrong-then-in-seconds-the-room-erupted-the-judges-stood-and-simon-cowell-slammed-the-golden-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=17511","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019M JUST A WAITER\u2026 BUT GIVE ME ONE NOTE AND I\u2019LL PROVE YOU WRONG.\u2019 \u2014 THEN IN SECONDS, THE ROOM ERUPTED, THE JUDGES STOOD, AND SIMON COWELL SLAMMED THE GOLDEN BUZZER LIKE HE HAD NO CHOICE.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"art-head-group\">\n<hgroup>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">\u2018Idol Philippines\u2019 alum Matty Juniosa scores Britain\u2019s Got Talent\u2019s golden buzzer<\/h1>\n<h1><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/YMa8cDRSfnM\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Matty Juniosa turns Prince's 'Purple Rain' GOLDEN! | Auditions | BGT 2026\" \/><\/h1>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"art_body_wrap\">\n<div id=\"article_content\" class=\"article_align\">\n<div id=\"FOR_target_content\">\n<p>\u201cIdol Philippines\u201d alum\u00a0<strong>Matty Juniosa<\/strong>\u00a0is off to a gleaming start in \u201cBritain\u2019s Got Talent\u201d season 19, as he scored a Golden Buzzer after impressing the judges with his rendition of Prince\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Juniosa\u2019s Golden Buzzer-worthy performance was broadcast on the show\u2019s March 28 episode, where he shared that he had been living in Glasgow, Scotland, for three years and had been working as a part-time waiter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"HI9xEQPR\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gIvntzzM\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.assettype.com\/tribune%2F2026-03-29%2Ftoremi6n%2FUntitled-design-1.jpg?w=480&amp;auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;fit=max\" alt=\"Filipino Singer Matty Juniosa Wins Golden Buzzer on Britain's Got Talent  for Powerful 'Purple Rain' Performance\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"9Q0Lp9C8\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nNbCO1BJ\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI have been waiting for this chance to finally put an end to this long thing that I\u2019ve been thinking of about myself, that I\u2019ll always be a singing competition loser,\u201d he said before his performance. \u201cMy dream is to sing for this amount of people and to sing every day, and to make music and to conquer the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"billboard_article\">\n<p><i id=\"art_cont\">Article continues after this advertisement<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"bb_box\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matty Juniosa turns Prince's 'Purple Rain' GOLDEN! | Auditions | BGT 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YMa8cDRSfnM\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"350\" data-origheight=\"235\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Juniosa became emotional after receiving a standing ovation from judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, and KSI, as well as the audience.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi34AUUPcACHP0roLXMKShqYbYCM_QVv36HTksWcPODwcpY3NXeJnNHVa28sRuRMWcR3ywokfv9XvtND_HnnKbCZSLjLovOHGjk6je3w4lBFt7gclZ6OhrHSBSCfQ9iFsBdwLTMhY2nUyVG1ooyRAP-zc_1-gF5YlvjABmIecAxV81ZVEBbWOeeQ-AYKio\/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu\/1%20(35).jpg\" alt=\"Fashion PULIS: Matty Juniosa Gets the Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell for 'Purple  Rain' in Britain's Got Talent\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatty, you\u2019re the kind of artist where I would say you want to put eight spoonfuls of sugar in your tea, you put about 10,000 in. This, I think, is the biggest reaction we\u2019ve had from anyone,\u201d Cowell said before pressing the Golden Buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>The singer took to his Instagram account to share the news, saying he is still in disbelief that he has received such an opportunity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Idol Philippines\u2019 alum Matty Juniosa scores Britain\u2019s Got Talent\u2019s golden buzzer \u201cIdol Philippines\u201d alum\u00a0Matty Juniosa\u00a0is off to a gleaming start in \u201cBritain\u2019s Got Talent\u201d season 19, as&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17513,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511\/revisions\/17513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}