By Nicola Methven BGT judges were left amazed at this year’s contestants – setting a new record for golden buzzer acts. The new season will be set apart from the many previous runs – with the highest total of going straight through to the live finals. In the old days it was always five – one each for the judges plus one for Ant and Dec together. But this year the total reached nine, as some simply couldn’t help their frenzied reaction to the performance they were witnessing. “I thought there were about another 17 acts who easily could have had a golden buzzer,” Simon Cowell reasons. “That’s ho…