Britain’s Got Talent’s first semifinal, which aired tonight, featured a tense magic trick from former Royal Marines commando James Stott, in which he said he would be ‘risking my life to get through to the final’.
The contestant, who explains in his VT that he was ‘in the military for 14 years, serving Queen and country’, staged an elaborate act involving five boxes with one-tonne weights dangling above them.
James was hiding in one of the boxes, and judges Amanda Holden, David Walliams, Alesha Dixon and Ashley Banjo were tasked with selecting at random, via coloured, numbered pieces of paper, which boxes to crush with the weights.
The magician then explained he would try to ‘subliminally sway these choices’, adding: ‘If this doesn’t work, I accept full responsibility of what’s about to happen.’
Cue some nail-biting footage, and James eventually emerging from the last box and saying: ‘Some of you may think this was a game of chance.
‘But in the marines, we learn not to rely on luck.’
‘I told you I wanted to honour the spirit of family in my performance tonight. The photograph of my grandfather [who was also in the military] has been on stage the whole time and no one has touched it.’
James then asked David to read out the digits on his grandfather’s dog tags.
‘31524,’ said David – the same order as the numbers read out by the judges, to the audience’s confusion.
‘It was very butch dear!’ was Little Britain star David’s reaction, as he joked: ‘Just the sight of you is masculine enough. But to risk yourself like that…was incredible.
‘It was great. Simon [Cowell] always says he likes to see people risking their life, really to just make him money!’
Alesha called ‘the presentation of this act pretty much perfect’, while Amanda said he was ‘brilliant’, adding: ‘you’ve fought for this country; you’re the backbone of this country.’
Finally, Ashley said he was ‘on the edge of my seat’, adding: ‘I had this weird urge to press the wrong buzzer! But don’t worry, I didn’t do it!’
Reacting online, one viewer said: ‘Well this a strange version of Deal Or No Deal.’
Brilliant.
A second added: ‘Knife cuts box – its bloody Rambo!!! You drew first blood…….’
A third said: ‘I love that act mixing danger with a family element I loved it.’
A fourth speculated that ‘he came up from under the stage into the box after the last one was picked,’ while a fifth (TV presenter India Willoughby!) said he ‘wasn’t in any box until right to the end, prior to the pause and chat with Banjo.’
Britain’s Got Talent returns on Saturday, September 12 on ITV at 8pm.
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