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When Tom Sandoval<\/strong> took the stage for the quarterfinals of America\u2019s Got Talent<\/strong> with his band, Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras, he aimed to deliver a memorable performance. However, the judges had mixed reactions, particularly Simon Cowell<\/strong>, who pressed his buzzer and candidly told Sandoval that the act \u201cdid not sound good.\u201d Now, Sandoval has shared his perspective on the experience.<\/p>\n Tom Sandoval admitted that his AGT quarterfinals performance didn\u2019t go as planned, but he explained that a technical mishap was partly to blame.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cRight before I went on, my in-ears kinda went out,\u201d he spoke about the audio monitors. \u201cSo I was flying in the dark there.\u201d Despite that, the Vanderpump Rules star was quick to add he wasn\u2019t making excuses. When Mel B challenged him on it, Sandoval emphasized, \u201cI had a blast.\u201d<\/p>\n The frontman and reality TV alum took the stage on August 19 with a cover of The Weeknd\u2019s chart-topping hit \u201cBlinding Lights.\u201d While judges Sof\u00eda Vergara, Mel B, and Howie Mandel praised his energy and commitment, Cowell wasn\u2019t convinced. \u201cI like Tom, and I like the band, but it didn\u2019t sound great,\u201d the longtime judge said.<\/p>\n Tom Sandoval first auditioned for AGT back in June, where he impressed the panel with a cover of A-ha\u2019s 1985 classic \u201cTake on Me.\u201d Moreover, joining AGT wasn\u2019t just about music for Sandoval. He admitted that he saw the show as a way to spotlight his bandmates, especially after they supported him through the fallout of the 2023 cheating scandal that made headlines on Vanderpump Rules. \u201cI thought to myself, \u2018This is a really good opportunity to showcase the band\u2014to get us out there,\u2019\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n Whether America\u2019s Got Talent\u2019s audience votes push Tom Sandoval into the semifinals remains to be seen.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on ComingSoon.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post AGT Quarterfinals: How Did Tom Sandoval React to Simon Cowell\u2019s Criticism?<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Tom Sandoval took the stage for the quarterfinals of America\u2019s Got Talent with his band, Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras, he aimed to deliver a memorable performance. However, the judges had mixed reactions, particularly Simon Cowell, who pressed his buzzer and candidly told Sandoval that the act \u201cdid not sound good.\u201d Now, Sandoval […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1976412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[307725,353160,23185,160335],"class_list":["post-1976411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-americas-got-talent","tag-memorable-performance","tag-simon-cowell","tag-tom-sandoval"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/How-Did-Tom-Sandoval-React-to-Simon-Cowells-Criticism.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Here\u2019s what Tom Sandoval said after Simon Cowell criticised his latest AGT perfortmance<\/h2>\n