Some of the funniest #eggate tweets as woman throws eggs at Simon Cowell during Britain's Got Talent final
So Attraction won this year's Britain's Got Talent final, but all the social media activity pretty much centred around eggs being thrown at Simon Cowell by a grinning stage invader/member of the orchestra. The incident sent an incredulous Twittersphere into overdrive with some awful/funny/egg-centric tweets. Here's some of the best.
Where's bloody John Prescott when u actually need him? #eggate/phantom eggflinger/bgt or eggs factor? Best check Luminites backpack too.
— jenny blyth (@blythie7) June 8, 2013Simon shell shocked! #BGT
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) June 8, 2013#eggate the day when Morrisons sponsorship went to far...
— James Hook (@HJookie) June 8, 2013Believe I'm missing the eggsfactor...#bgt
— Robin Galloway (@djrobingalloway) June 8, 2013Eggs chucked at Simon Cowell? You must be yolking. #bgt
— sickeningjar (@sickeningjar) June 8, 2013Egg-thrower to win. Eggscelent. Yolk's on you. Shell-shocked. Eggs factor. Have I poached all the gags then? #scrambledtweet#bgt
— John Heuston (@adprJohn) June 8, 2013Now you all know it is live...!#BGT
— David Walliams (@davidwalliams) June 8, 2013I wonder if she was poached for the show #bgt ok am done before they get any worse
— Jake Quickenden (@JakeQuickenden) June 8, 2013"You in the orchestra?" "Yeah." "And you play the … egg?" #bgt
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) June 8, 2013