\n The 19th series of BGT is underway as people come from far and wide to showcase their talents for a chance of winning \u00a3250,000 and a spot at the Royal Variety Performance.\n<\/p>\n
\n The golden buzzer gives acts a free pass straight through to the semi-finals, and one young star was left celebrating after his performance, at just 16 years old.\n<\/p>\n
KSI awards BGT golden buzzer to magician Rafferty Coope<\/p>\n
\n Rafferty Coope wowed the judges with his act that combined his “two passions in life” to the judges, music and magic.\n<\/p>\n
\n His trick involved him making a coin pass through solid glass, making a phone levitate, and a card trick that led to him playing the song Don’t Stop Believing on the piano.\n<\/p>\n
\n The performance from the 16-year-old got a standing ovation from the audience and the judges.\n<\/p>\n
\n Chants of “push the gold” erupted from the audience, with KSI making the decision to award the gold buzzer.\n<\/p>\n
\n He stood up on the judges’ table and stomped onto it, leaving the young magician stunned.\n<\/p>\n
\n KSI joined him on stage and said: “That blew my mind.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Oh my god, I’m proud of you.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Cherish this moment, this is all you.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Head judge Simon added: “Your showmanship is spectacular and there’s something very charming about you.”\n<\/p>\n
\n BGT fans on X, formerly Twitter, also applauded the 16-year-old after his performance.\n<\/p>\n
\n One said: “Rafferty absolutely brilliant.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Another wrote: “Rafferty was great. Great talent, confidence and charisma.”\n<\/p>\n
\n A third said: “Golden Buzzer for Rafferty my eyes are like taps right now, so happy!\n<\/p>\n
\n “The talent message at the end and his ability was amazing!”\n<\/p>\n
\n Recommended reading:\n<\/p>\n
Why is Bruno Tonioli not on BGT this year?<\/p>\n
\n Former Britain’s Got Talent judge Bruno Tonioli is no longer a judge on the show for the latest series, being replaced by social media star KSI.\n<\/p>\n
\n The decision was announced last summer, with Bruno quitting the show after three years, due to his prior commitments as a judge on Dancing with the Stars.\n<\/p>\n
\n KSI was a guest judge on the previous series and has now joined full-time.\n<\/p>\n
\n Who is your all time favourite winner of Britain’s Got Talent? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 19th series of BGT is underway as people come from far and wide to showcase their talents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-307200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}