{"id":661478,"date":"2026-05-11T03:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661478\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T03:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:49:10","slug":"fire-dancer-yang-li-wei-makes-britains-got-talent-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661478\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire dancer Yang Li-wei makes \u2018Britain\u2019s Got Talent\u2019 final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese fire dancer Yang Li-wei (\u694a\u7acb\u5fae) advanced to the final of Britain&#8217;s Got Talent on Saturday, after receiving a Golden Buzzer during her live semifinal performance.<\/p>\n<p>Yang, a member of Taiwan&#8217;s Coming True Fire Group, stunned judges and audiences with a high-intensity fire performance featuring flaming umbrellas, fire swallowing and spinning metal structures balanced with her legs.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5352202_1_1.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of the Coming True Fire Group<\/p>\n<p>Judge Simon Cowell praised Yang as a superstar, while guest judge KSI reacted with amazement before pressing the Golden Buzzer, sending her straight to the finals.<\/p>\n<p>The dance troupe later wrote on Facebook that the Golden Buzzer was &#8220;the highest honor&#8221; on the talent show, adding: &#8220;Twenty-three years of hard work became a golden light.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yang first appeared on the program in February, when she earned unanimous approval from all four judges after a five-minute fire dance performance inspired by Taiwanese folk arts and circus techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Central News Agency earlier this year, Yang said she hoped to represent Taiwan on the international stage and that &#8220;the warmth of the fire from Taiwan will light up the whole world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taiwanese fire dancer Yang Li-wei (\u694a\u7acb\u5fae) advanced to the final of Britain&#8217;s Got Talent on Saturday, after receiving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,23512,75,244536,1002,348,244537,1001],"class_list":["post-661478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-competition","tag-entertainment","tag-fire-dancer","tag-the-taipei-times","tag-tv","tag-yang-li-wei","tag-1001"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661478","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=661478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}