Britain's Got Talent viewers were left puzzled last night after Simon Cowell was missing for parts of the last episode of the ...

Cowell was unable to attend the audition - which took place at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool in the first week of October ...

It has since been confirmed that Simon was absent from filming at the time because of the death of One Direction star Liam Payne. Payne died at the tender age of 31 on October 16 last year, which is ...