Attraction win Britain's Got Talent

         after judges are pelted by eggs in live final

More than 13 million people watched the Britain's Got Talent (BGT) live final on Saturday night, during which Simon Cowell was pelted with eggs by a suspected former reject, ITV said .

The show, won by the Hungarian shadow-dance troupe Attraction, was watched by a peak audience of 13.1 million, with an average of 11.1 million viewers across the two and a half hour programme, the broadcaster said.

Attraction, whose participation on a show supposedly highlighting native performers had led to criticism, won the most public votes after a British-themed display that included a performance to Land Of Hope And Glory and the voice of Winston Churchill.

The eight-strong group, who previously appeared on the German and Hungarian equivalents of BGT, pipped teenage Yorkshire comedian Jack Carroll, 14, who was runner-up, and Welsh singing brothers Richard and Adam Johnson, who came third.

Cowell, a judge on the panel, said the result had been a surprise: "It just shows that this country welcomes people from all over the world, and they loved this act."

During Richard and Adam's song a woman ran from backstage and pelted the judges with eggs. She walked onstage, smiled, then started throwing eggs from a carton at the judges. It emerged that the perpetrator was Natalie Holt, 30, a member of the Johnsons' backing group.

Attraction's leader, Zoltan Scuzs, said the result was amazing and that he wanted to thank the British public. The group's performance, against a backdrop that included the Union flag, the Olympic rings and the Queen's profile, saw them beat Carroll, a favourite, who has cerebral palsy and whose routine poked fun at BGT's BBC rival The Voice, including judge Tom Jones.

Richard and Adam impressed the judges, despite having their thunder stolen by their egg-hurling colleague, who displayed talent of her own by launching her messy projectiles accurately at the judges from some distance.

The pair did not stop singing as Holt was bundled offstage by security guards, but when the cameras cut to Cowell, he had taken his jacket off. He joked that he had previously tweeted that he did not like eggs, adding: "I really don't like eggs now."

Fellow judge Amanda Holden said: "The only person with egg on their face is the stupid cow who threw the eggs."

During a commercial break, another judge, comic David Walliams, tweeted: "Now you all know it is live … One of the string quartet apparently. Well, she has had her 15 seconds of fame!"

In a statement issued by a BGT spokesman, Holt said: "I want to apologise to Richard and Adam for overshadowing their performance. I've never done anything like this before and, in hindsight, I have realised it was a silly thing to do."

The spokesman said police had been called because of Holt's "misguided actions" but no further action would be taken.

Carroll, the next act to perform, opened by joking: "For my first act I was going to run on and throw some eggs – well, that's been ruined now."

Walliams hailed Carroll, who tweets as @fatjacko, calling him a superstar for improvising the start of his act. He tweeted of the teen comedian, who uses a walking frame: "@fatjacko is going to go on making us all laugh for many years to come." Walliams added that Attraction had been worthy winners.

ITV said Attraction won 27% of the public vote; Carroll 20.1%; and Richard and Adam 15.4%.

READ MORE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/jun/09/attractions-win-britains-got-talent-eggs

You've got the words to change a nation
but you're biting your tongue
You've spent a life time stuck in silence
afraid you'll say something wrong
If no one ever hears it how we gonna learn your song
So come, on come on
Come on, come on
You've got a heart as loud as lions
So why let your voice be tamed?
Baby we're a little different
there's no need to be ashamed
You've got the light to fight the shadows
so stop hiding it away
Come on, Come on

I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream till the words dry out
so put it in all of the papers,
i'm not afraid
they can read all about it
read all about it oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh

At night we're waking up the neighbours
while we sing away the blues
making sure that we remember yeah
cause we all matter too
if the truth has been forbidden
then we're breaking all the rules
so come on, come on
come on, come on,
lets get the tv and the radio
to play our tune again
its 'bout time we got some airplay of our version of events
there's no need to be afraid
i will sing with you my friend
Come on, come on

I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream till the words dry out
so put it in all of the papers,
i'm not afraid
they can read all about it
read all about it oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh

Yeah we're all wonderful, wonderful people
so when did we all get so fearful?
Now we're finally finding our voices
so take a chance, come help me sing this
Yeah we're all wonderful, wonderful people
so when did we all get so fearful?
and now we're finally finding our voices
so take a chance, come help me sing this

I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream till the words dry out
so put it in all of the papers,
i'm not afraid
they can read all about it
read all about it oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh

I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream till the words dry out
so put it in all of the papers,
i'm not afraid
they can read all about it
read all about it oh

'Attraction' Shadow Theatre - Semi-Final - Britain's Got Talent 2013