'America's Got Talent' Backstage Report: Piers Morgan Plans to Bring Back Charles Peachock
Despite getting strikes from two thirds of the judging team on 'America's Got Talent' juggler Charles Peachock made it into the Top Five on last night's results program.It came down to Peachock and impressionist Melissa Villasenor for the fourth act of the night that would advance to the next round and, not surprisingly, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel, who'd both given strikes to Peachock on Tuesday's show, stuck to their guns and threw their support to Villasenor.
AOL TV was on the post show press line to speak with the judges, Peachock and other ejected acts to get their reactions to the latest 'AGT' results.
Viewers may not have seen the last of Peachock, however. Piers Morgan shared that he's going to throw his wild card vote to the axed juggler.
Mandel stands by his decision. "Maybe as a comic I'm biased, but Melissa creates her own material, her own characters, the voices," he says. "Every time it's different. She's unique. There aren't a lot of funny women out there. There needs to be more."It wasn't a surprise when other acts were voted off earlier in the show. The Kinetic King didn't stand a chance after his domino trick with sticks failed to work properly.
"I'm still baffled as to what unholy combination of humidity and having the sticks there for so long caused them to lock up," the King says. "It was strange. Instead of a 'stick' bomb I had a 'stuck' bomb."
Juggler Frank Miles lost support of the judges when he failed to impale a donut with a crossbow arrow. (In the words of Maxwell Smart he "missed it by that much!")
"The headgear was on a just a little bit crooked," Miles says. "It changed the angle of how my head was tilted. That had never happened before, not in a single rehearsal."
In hindsight, might Miles have gotten a laugh if he'd taken the unscathed donut and maybe taken a bite out of it?
"I didn't think to do schtick," he responds. "I was also confused about what happened. Someone from off stage yelled out that I'd hit it. I wasn't trying to cover for anything because I thought it had worked."
Peachock didn't let being buzzed by Mandel and Osbourne affect his concentration. "I was looking down and thinking about hitting my notes," he says."I heard the buzz and thought it was from Piers. I was pleased [to find out it wasn't him.] Piers takes this show more seriously than anyone does. Viewers realize he looks at the talent in a very serious way and he picks the acts that he thinks will do well.
"I am hoping to come back for a wild card show," Peachock continues. "If I do I have a completely different set. I'd love to get a chance to show America something completely different."
'America's Got Talent' airs Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9PM ET on NBC.

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