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Simon Cowell gives a thumbs up as Britain's Got Talent auditions resume in Blackpool after being postponed in the wake of Liam Payne's death

Simon Cowell gave a cheerful thumbs up on Tuesday as he stepped out in Blackpool for the latest round of Britain's Got Talent auditions.

And now almost three months after the postponement, work on the show is back underway with Simon - who famously formed Liam's band One Direction- seen looking in a good mood in the seaside town. Dressed in his signature grey T-shirt and dark shades, the music mogul, 65, had seemingly put the difficult past few months to the back of his mind as he ploughed on with work. Auditions for the ITV talent show were cancelled back in October in the wake of the shock death of Liam Payne earlier that month aged 31, after he fell from a third-floor hotel balcony in Argentina

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