TAKE Fat are confused after their chance to shine on national television made no progress – despite the flood of support.

The Worcester Take That tribute band – who weigh about 80 stone between them – caused quite a stir when they auditioned for the ITV talent show Britain’s Got Talent earlier this year.

Their successful audition got them a standing ovation in Birmingham, as well as numerous column inches in many national newspapers.

But despite all of this, the band – made up of Gary Lardo, Jason Chocolate Orange, Howard McDonalds, Mark Growin and Blobbie Williams – failed to be shown on the audition rounds at all.

“It took quite a long time to get any sort of answer from Britain’s Got Talent as to why we didn’t appear,” said Tony James, aka Blobbie Williams.

“In the end, the press person just said there were hundreds of people who auditioned and not everybody got shown on TV.

"We know there were a lot of people, but none of them got the push we did before.

“We were told before the show we had more publicity than any other act, but they have now said the reason was there were four journalists in the audience that day and there was nothing more to it than that.”

Viewers now know Take Fat did not make it through to the live semi-finals, but the band are not worried about that.

“We don’t want to come across as bitter – we are just confused,” said Mr James.

“We had quite a lot on hold for Britain’s Got Talent.

“We lost out on a couple of TV bits and pieces. “If we had been on for even 20 seconds, it would have been okay.

“We finally got shown on a ‘coming up’ clip one week but then never appeared. It was as if we didn’t exist.”

Conspiracy theories abound over Take Fat’s non-appearance on the show.

“We did ask had we got too much publicity before, but the response was it wasn’t the reason,” said Mr James.

“Some people have said that Ant and Dec are good friends with Take That, and it might be seen as a bit derogatory – but I don’t think for one minute that is the case.”

It’s now left to the boys to relight their careers – although there does not seem to be any danger of them not staying in the spotlight, with interest from around the world in their act.

“We are not going anywhere,” Mr James promised. “Britain’s Got Talent is not the be all and end all.”