If Saturday's show proved anything, it proved that there is no age limit to talent.

While 72 year-old strongman Leonard Henry Bennett left judges astounded, 85 year-old belly dancer Simone Lloyd and 82 year-old Teddy Prescott showed their remarkable skills.

Playing it for a laugh, though, was 86 year-old Jack Woodward, who has been a one of the famous Chelsea Pensioners for eleven years.

Brummie Jack began his career as a funny man as a sixteen-year-old, posted north to Gateshead and Newcastle with his unit as the country prepared for the Second World War. He played the pubs and clubs alongside his regular military shifts, and undertook charity performances when he was posted across the world to India, Korea and Malaya in World War Two.

"I was used to earning three shillings and six and then I ended up doing a charity show in Malaya which earned over £4000 for soldiers' widows", he told us.

His comedy career continued as a warm up man for the outside TV broadcasts in Bristol before he became a lollipop man in later years.

Jack had no nerves about performing in front of the often stony-faced Britain's Got Talent judges. "Don't worry," he laughed, "I've died on stage plenty of times".

Luckily, with cheers all round, Jack ended up celebrating, "I'm not sure I have a secret to success, as such. My mate just tells me I have the kind of face people laugh at"!