United Kingdom, May 10 -- Simon Cowell has admitted he, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan looked "awful" and "horrible" during Susan Boyle's first audition on Britain's Got Talent.

The music mogul, 66, said the panel's reaction to the singer became "a wake-up call" after it aired to millions as he reflected on the now infamous 2009 audition during the first episode of Jamie East's Celebrity Trenches podcast, revisiting the moment Susan Boyle, now 65, walked onto the ITV talent show stage and stunned viewers with her performance of Les Miserables anthem I Dreamed A Dream.

Simon said: "I look back and I just think, 'My God we look so awful, horrible'. I actually don't think we look bad enough. I think we were even worse than that and they we...