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America’s Got Talent <\/em>premieres Monday, with the judges handing out more Golden Buzzers than they ever have in one episode.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Judge Simon Cowell gave his to 14-year-old Lai Noelle, who stunned the judges and audiences alike.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Fellow judge Sofia Vergara insisted that she had told Cowell she planned to use the move herself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n America’s Got Talent<\/em><\/a>is back!<\/p>\n The premiere of the reality competition is filled with more Golden Buzzers than have ever before seen on one episode. Judges Simon Cowell<\/a>, Sofia Vergara, Mel B, and Howie Mandel, as well as host TerryCrews, will only award 10 of them, which allow a contestant to go straight to the live shows, all season.<\/p>\n Entertainment Weekly<\/em> has an exclusive clip from next week’s premiere of season 21 showing one contestant having her year made when Cowell recognizes her as a potential winner.<\/p>\n Lai Noelle, a 14-year-old from Texas, was one of the lucky recipients when she belted out “Die on This Hill” by Sienna Spiro.<\/p>\n Even before she began, she had a rapport with the judges. Cowell asked why she had decided to audition this year, which she told him because she had improved as a singer and her confidence had grown. Was she was nervous? He offered her some water, which prompted Mandel to ask if she wanted a sandwich. Yes, she wanted water, but no on the food.<\/p>\n The audience was chanting for her even before the first soulful note of the song, but they were soon standing.<\/p>\n The judges were taken aback.<\/p>\n “Lai, shall I tell you, honestly, what I think?” Cowell said. “Words aren’t necessary.”<\/p>\n Vergara looked shocked as Cowell reached over her to hit the buzzer.<\/p>\n The Modern Family <\/em>alum then told Mel B that she had been planning to do the same thing.<\/p>\n But Cowell was already onstage, speaking with Noelle and the adults who’d accompanied her.<\/p>\n “I mean, seriously,” he said, “that wasn’t her singing, right?”<\/p>\n He told the teen that she had been “spectacular.”<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our <\/em><\/strong>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n “I told him I’m going to give her the Golden Buzzer, and he stood up and did it,” Vergara said back at the judge’s table. “He took her from me!”<\/p>\n In all the excitement, Noelle left the stage, but she returned to hear more raves from Cowell.<\/p>\n That’s when Cowell said Vergara had actually asked him whether she should make the big move for the contestant, but he’d told her no.<\/p>\n “I shut my eyes for a moment, and I was thinking, that’s not you singing,'” Cowell said. “You’ve got such a gift, and now you take this opportunity. This is amazing. This is why we do this.”<\/p>\n Noelle will face tough competition, though, as performers with other skills \u2014 past seasons have included skilled aerialists, magicians, dancers, and more \u2014 take the stage.<\/p>\n