{"id":421093,"date":"2026-05-10T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/421093\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:09:09","slug":"taiwanese-entrant-lights-up-british-tv-talent-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/421093\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese entrant lights up British TV talent contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese fire dancer Yang Li-wei advanced to the final of Britain\u2019s Got Talent this weekend after receiving a Golden Buzzer during her live semi-final performance.<\/p>\n<p>Yang, a member of Taiwan\u2019s Coming True Fire Group, awed 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>Judge Simon Cowell praised Yang as a star, while guest judge KSI reacted with amazement before pressing the Golden Buzzer, sending her to the finals.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/P06-260511-011.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Screen grab from YouTube<\/p>\n<p>The dance group wrote on social media that the Golden Buzzer was \u201cthe highest honor\u201d on the talent show, adding: \u201cTwenty-three years of hard work became a golden light.\u201d<\/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>Yang said in an earlier interview she hoped to represent Taiwan on the international stage and that \u201cthe warmth of the fire from Taiwan will light up the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taiwanese fire dancer Yang Li-wei advanced to the final of Britain\u2019s Got Talent this weekend after receiving a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,13923,437,13922],"class_list":["post-421093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-taipei-times","tag-tv","tag-13922"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421093","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=421093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}