{"id":643813,"date":"2026-05-02T21:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643813\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:43:14","slug":"ksi-bgt-illusion-act-was-one-of-the-most-incredible-things-i-have-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643813\/","title":{"rendered":"KSI: BGT illusion act was one of the \u2018most incredible things\u2019 I have seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magician Fabian Fox was praised on Saturday night for his act which featured an appearance from the YouTuber\u2019s primary school teacher.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-final on Saturday night saw Fox ask the judges to pick a number of letters and numbers before he \u201ctime travelled\u201d by driving a motorcycle onto a cage which was suspended in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Within seconds he vanished and appeared in the crowd before returning on stage to play a video of his \u201ctrip\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The video showed Fabian at KSI\u2019s primary school after the first sequence of numbers and letters spelled out its postcode.<\/p>\n<p>He later entered one of the classrooms where he rearranged the second sequence that was written out by the judges and spelled out KSI\u2019s former music teacher\u2019s name, Mrs Batts.<\/p>\n<p>She appeared in the video and was asked to write out a mystery word which was placed in an envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Fabian then asked KSI to read out the word he wrote out at the start of the act before revealing that they both had \u201cgamer\u201d written out.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIf I had the power to press the golden button, I would.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2.81987353.jpg\" alt=\"Britain\u2019s Got Talent auditions \u2013 Blackpool\" data-title=\"Britain\u2019s Got Talent auditions \u2013 Blackpool\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Tim Markland\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>KSI arriving for the Britain\u2019s Got Talent auditions at the Winter Gardens Blackpool, in Lancashire (Tim Markland\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is honestly one of the most incredible, incredible things I\u2019ve ever seen in my life.<\/p>\n<p>His thoughts were echoed by the judging panel, Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon, who praised Fabian for his thoughtful act.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon said: \u201cYou took us on a real journey and I loved all the really small details, the fact that you had that epic moment with the bike and gave us the drama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou made it personable. I liked you in the audition round, but I love you now. I think when it mattered, you brought it. Well done, brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holden added: \u201cThere is just an ease and a charm to you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I kept thinking about was the Royal Variety Show and how that would just look so cool on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simon Cowell said he thought the performance was \u201creally clever and really brilliant\u201d before being interrupted by the roar of the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s Got Talent continues on ITV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magician Fabian Fox was praised on Saturday night for his act which featured an appearance from the YouTuber\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-643813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}