\n Tonight’s semi-final began with a performance from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda The Musical.\n<\/p>\n
\n Eight more acts are set to take to the stage tonight, battling it out for a place in this year’s live final next Saturday (May 30):\n<\/p>\n
Baron & Vesper \u2013 Stunt act<\/p>\n
Celestial \u2013 Drone art<\/p>\n
The Hawkstone Farmers Choir \u2013 Choir group<\/p>\n
Jake Banfield – Magician<\/p>\n
James Miller – Singer<\/p>\n
Juan Carlos – Dancer<\/p>\n
Mr. Cherry \u2013 Stunt act<\/p>\n
SOS! \u2013 Boyband<\/p>\n
KSI apologises for “rubbish” semi-final act<\/p>\n
\n The fifth BGT 2026 semi-final began with a performance from dancer Juan Carlos, followed by a magic act from Jake Banfield that had judges “lost for words”.\n<\/p>\n
\n But the third performance from Mr Cherry had KSI apologising, after awarding him a golden buzzer during the audition stages.\n<\/p>\n
\n Amanda Holden labelled his semi-final performance as “rubbish”, while Simon Cowell said it looked like he had drunk too much coffee before the show.\n<\/p>\n
\n Viewers agreed that Mr Cherry was “hard to watch”.\n<\/p>\n
\n One person, posting on Instagram, said: “I\u2019ve never been so clueless about an act before.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I wasn\u2019t sure whether I liked his audition or not, and after tonight\u2019s performance, I\u2019ve decided that I don\u2019t like the act.\n<\/p>\n
\n “That was genuinely hard to watch. I don\u2019t know what KSI was thinking hitting his golden buzzer for him! At least he apologised to the nation.”\n<\/p>\n
Who is in the BGT 2026 final?<\/p>\n
\n There have been four semi-finals so far of the 2026 series of BGT, with eight acts confirmed for next Saturday’s (May 30) final:\n<\/p>\n
Matty Juniosa (singer) – golden buzzer from semi-final one<\/p>\n
Anastasiia and Salsa (dog act) – winner of semi-final one<\/p>\n
LMA (dance group) – golden buzzer from semi-final two<\/p>\n
Fabian Fox (magician) – winner of semi-final two<\/p>\n
Liwei Yang (fire-juggler) – golden buzzer from semi-final three<\/p>\n
Ted Hill (comedian) – winner of semi-final three<\/p>\n
Sonny Green (poet) – golden buzzer in semi-final four<\/p>\n
Rafferty Coope (magician) – winner of semi-final four<\/p>\n
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What does the winner of BGT 2026 get?<\/p>\n
\n There have been 18 winners of BGT since its first series in 2007, with magician Harry Moulding winning last year.\n<\/p>\n
\n The winner of BGT 2026 will take home a prize of \u00a3250,000 and will also be given the chance to perform in front of the royal family at the Royal Variety Performance.\n<\/p>\n
\n What did you think of Mr Cherry’s performance on Britain’s Got Talent tonight? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight’s semi-final began with a performance from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda The Musical. Eight more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-442314","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\/442314","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=442314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}