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<\/p>\nThe professional pickpocket wowed the judges when he revealed how old he really was<\/p>\n
Samantha King Content Editor<\/p>\n
22:04, 18 Apr 2026<\/p>\n
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Lee Thompson performed a pickpocket act on stage(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n
A professional pickpocket who performed on Britain’s Got Talent tonight<\/a> (April 18) left the judging panel stunned within seconds of taking to the stage.<\/p>\n Lee Thompson, from Birmingham, had prepared a slick performance<\/a> where he repeatedly swiped Ant and Dec’s<\/a> phones, glasses and room keys without them realising.<\/p>\n He was even shown secretly planting wrist watches in the bags and pockets of audience members after posing as security in a pre-recorded segment. He even got the judging panel backstage, including Simon Cowell.<\/p>\n However, within moments of first getting up on stage he had Amanda Holden in particular open-mouthed, as he admitted how old he really was.<\/p>\n He repeatedly swiped items from Ant and Dec’s pockets without them knowing(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n “You look very dapper,” Amanda started as the performer first stepped on stage. He quickly responded: “Oh! Do I look my age?”<\/p>\n “I don’t know, how old are you babes?” the judge quipped, as Lee then admitted: “I’m touching 60.”<\/p>\n His response left Amanda visibly stunned as she retorted with a “You’re not! Are you?” in disbelief. Simon, clearly also impressed, then chimed in with: “You look good.”<\/p>\n After their initial exchange he continued to wow the entire panel with his performance, earning him the moniker of the “modern-day Artful Dodger” from Amanda.<\/p>\n Lee revealed he was ‘touching 60′(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n In fact Lee was actually employed as a Pickpocket Consultant on Guy Ritchie\u2019s Young Sherlock series on Prime Video, which follows a young Sherlock Holmes as he finds himself trying his hand at pickpocketing after being inspired by the story of Oliver Twist.<\/p>\n Viewers at home were also impressed by the star, with one penning: “This is genuinely amazing. Even if he might be incriminating himself.” A second gushed: “That was clever, funny and amazing….good job.”<\/p>\n While Lee sailed through to the next round with four yes votes from the panel, some viewers questioned why he wasn’t awarded the coveted Golden Buzzer which gives an act a free pass through to the live final.<\/p>\n Lee made it through to the next round but missed out on a coveted Golden Buzzer(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n Fans were up in arms tonight after KSI awarded a controversial act his Golden Buzzer. Comedy act Mr Cherry, 44, started his act by opening a jar of pickles before later opening wine bottles with his buttocks.<\/p>\n \u201cLadies and Gentlemen, I don\u2019t know about you but that was the greatest thing I have ever seen,” KSI said, while irked viewers quickly labelled his decision the “worst Golden Buzzer” act ever sent through on the show.<\/p>\n Britain’s Got Talent airs Saturday nights from 7pm on ITV1 and ITVX. All episodes can be streamed on ITVX after broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The professional pickpocket wowed the judges when he revealed how old he really was Samantha King Content Editor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,58346,134,6207,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-615897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-britains-got-talent","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-itv","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615897","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=615897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"He](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_lee-thompson-2.jpg\")
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