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<\/p>\nBritain’s Got Talent 2026 fans spotted an unexpected detail in teenage magician Rafferty Coope’s grand final performance.<\/p>\n
20:24, 30 May 2026Updated 20:49, 30 May 2026<\/p>\n
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Britain’s Got Talent star Rafferty Coope. (Image: ITV)<\/p>\n
The Britain’s Got Talent 2026 final has arrived, though not everything has gone according to plan tonight.<\/p>\n
Ten acts have returned for this evening’s BGT<\/a> grand finale on Saturday, 30 May, on ITV<\/a>, including teenage magician Rafferty Coope, who says his aim is simply to bring joy to people.<\/p>\n During his final performance, he attempted to convey this message once more, beginning by asking judges Alesha Dixon<\/a> and KSI<\/a> to select raffle tickets from a bag.<\/p>\n They announced the ticket numbers, which Rafferty then inscribed on top of a grand piano as 371415, before rotating the piano and declaring that it spelled out “smile”.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, viewers were swift to take to X to point out that it didn’t spell smile but rather a five-letter profanity instead.<\/p>\n “Anyone got a screengrab of that piano lid? It said s***e”, someone enquired.<\/p>\n Britain’s Got Talent finalist Rafferty Coope next to a grand white piano.(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n Another posted: “Why does the piano say s***e on top of it…”, with a third asking: “What numbers spell s***e when they’re turned upside down?”<\/p>\n While another concurred: “SMILE? I thought it said s***e.”<\/p>\n However, others believed that Rafferty had spelled out the nonsensical word “sihile”, with fans continuing to ridicule.<\/p>\n “To quote Charlie Chaplin – Sihile though your heart is breaking…”, a viewer quipped.<\/p>\n Another commented: “Ah yes, that old saying: ‘SIHILE! It might never happen!'”<\/p>\n A fan posted: “Let’s all sihile because it’s finished” as a fellow user remarked: “Can someone tell Rafferty how to spell SMILE cause it ain’t sihile.”<\/p>\n Britain’s Got Talent finalist Rafferty Coope during his live final performance.(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n Another viewer quipped: “So he had a big f*****g piano brought on stage so he could write on it but couldn’t even write the word properly.”<\/p>\n However, not all reactions were critical, with some viewers noting that Rafferty appeared to be “nervous” during his performance.<\/p>\n One fan enthused: “Rafferty Coope that was incredible how this young lads dose magic in such a different way! Incredible act who will go far in his chosen career and definitely made me smile!”<\/p>\n A second agreed: “Rafferty Coope is spellbinding What a remarkably charming act”, while a third added: “Rafferty Coope is truly phenomenal and I genuinely hope he has a career after this as a magician. He’s such a lovely lad.”<\/p>\n Britain’s Got Talent is available to watch on ITVX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Got Talent 2026 fans spotted an unexpected detail in teenage magician Rafferty Coope’s grand final performance. 20:24,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[161482,156,7386,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-453176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-britains-got-talent","tag-entertainment","tag-itv","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453176","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=453176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Teenager](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1780174872_987_0_smile-1.jpg\")
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