Dannii hasn't ruled out Britain's Got Talent role

Dannii hasn't ruled out Britain's Got Talent role
Dannii hasn't ruled out Britain's Got Talent role (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Dannii Minogue isn't ruling out a role on the Britain's Got Talent judging panel. The former X Factor judge is rumoured to be on the shortlist to replace comic Michael McIntyre and ex-Baywatch star David Hasselhoff, who won't be returning for the next series of the ITV1 show. Dannii - mum to one-year-old Ethan, told Heart FM: "I don't have any TV booked in for the next year at the moment. I haven't made any decisions. but there's always stuff in the pipeline - let's see what happens. "At the moment for me it's all about family and being back in Australia and the little one not missing out on those first few days. But I do love the show - it's so funny and you've always got a dog trying to sing in tune, and I'm trying to imagine the Queen watching that." Dannii also revealed she is still in touch with former X Factor co-star Cheryl Cole, who was axed from the US version of the show. "It's been a big year she's been through with the American X Factor and you know she's been incredible to work with, she was always there as a support for me when I had tough days because it's a tough show." And she explained why she wasn't returning to the panel for this year's X Factor. "The dates of the filming got put back twice and I'd already started Australia's Got Talent so by the time they said OK here it is, let's do the show, it would've meant my flying back from Australia once a week for 10 weeks with a one year old child and I'd just got out of hospital three days before having my appendix out and I was like, I'm sorry, but it's not possible." SUBSCRIBE to TV Times magazine NOW and you could save up to 29%

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.