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<\/p>\nComedian Ted Hill secured a place in the Britain’s Got Talent live semi-finals this evening after hosts Ant and Dec hit the golden buzzer during Saturday night’s ITV broadcast.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old performer from London delivered a stand-up routine that merged his professional work presenting science-themed shows at schools with his passion for comedy – but fans were left divided.<\/p>\n
Mr Hill, who is autistic, won over both the judging panel and studio audience with his analytical approach to humour.<\/p>\n
His act featured visual aids including graphs and a chalkboard presentation, drawing enthusiastic responses from judges Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden and KSI throughout his set.<\/p>\n
Some BGT fans were confused by the reaction to the act<\/p>\n
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The golden buzzer means Mr Hill bypasses further audition rounds and proceeds directly to the live shows.<\/p>\n
During his audition, he addressed the audience directly, joking “We’ll address the elephant in the room” before an elephant sound effect played, prompting Alesha Dixon to burst into laughter.<\/p>\n
He told the judges: “I am a very autistic man, thank you for noticing. These are some of the things I love – graphs, like a lot of autistic people.”<\/p>\n
One of his standout gags involved ranking people named Simon Cowell, with the judge placed third on a chalkboard graphic. Mr Hill promised to elevate Mr Cowell to first place if he advanced in the competition.<\/p>\n
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Ms Holden was reduced to tears of laughter when a Victorian-era photograph appeared with Mr Cowell’s face superimposed onto it.<\/p>\n
The comedian also performed a segment reimagining the phonetic alphabet.<\/p>\n
Mr Cowell remarked: “He’s actually funny,” whilst Ms Holden declared: “That has blown my mind, it was completely unexpected, and so intelligent.”<\/p>\n
Reaction on social media proved sharply divided following the golden buzzer moment.<\/p>\n
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Supporters praised Hill’s performance, with one viewer writing: “Absolutely hilarious and deserving of the golden buzzer!”<\/p>\n
Another fan commented: “Deserved that buzzer… I thought he was great… unique.”<\/p>\n
However, numerous viewers questioned whether the accolade was warranted.<\/p>\n
One critic posted: “Erm am I only one who didn’t laugh once at that comedy golden buzzer.”<\/p>\n
Another wrote: “The Golden Buzzer literally means nothing anymore. It’s just given out to anyone like sweets nowadays.”<\/p>\n
Someone else fumed: “I’m guessing nobody else can get a golden buzzer now its been wasted on the guy who wasnt funny. #BGT.”<\/p>\n
A more measured response read: “Look he was funny, he was slightly different but I wasn’t laughing out loud, I think the funniest part was the Simon graph but definitely not golden buzzer worthy, he’s good for a couple of minutes but not a full comedy set.”<\/p>\n
Mr Hill’s golden buzzer marked the fifth of the current series, with all judges and hosts now having used theirs.<\/p>\n
Simon Cowell was first to press the gold button in the opening episode, awarding it to Australian para athlete Paul Nunnari for his wheelchair stunts.<\/p>\n
KSI followed by selecting 16-year-old magician Rafferty Coope, whose act featured a coin passing through glass and a piano performance of Don’t Stop Believing.<\/p>\n
Alesha Dixon chose entertainment act Antigravity, which the judges described as one of the finest performances in the programme’s 19-year history.<\/p>\n
Ms Holden gave her buzzer to a 34-member choir composed entirely of British farmers, created as a promotional venture connected to Jeremy Clarkson’s Hawkstone drinks brand.<\/p>\n
The eventual BGT winner receives \u00a3250,000 and a performance slot at the Royal Variety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comedian Ted Hill secured a place in the Britain’s Got Talent live semi-finals this evening after hosts Ant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,58346,480,134,6207,427],"class_list":["post-571711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-britains-got-talent","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-itv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}