{"id":599202,"date":"2026-05-23T04:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599202\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T04:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:15:09","slug":"bushey-magician-in-britains-got-talent-semi-final-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599202\/","title":{"rendered":"Bushey magician in Britain&#8217;s Got Talent semi-final Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Bushey-based Jake Banfield, 37, wowed the judges and received four yeses with his magic act during his audition on March 28.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The professional magician will return to the ITV1 show live tomorrow (May 23), hoping to book his place in the final.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Jake Banfield (Image: ITV)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Palace Theatre, in Clarendon Road, revealed earlier today that he has been using its rehearsal space to help develop and refine his performance for Saturday night over the past few weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson said: \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud to see local talent shining on such a huge stage and wish Jake the very best of luck for the live shows.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jake, who is originally from Essex, performed tricks with a burning photograph, cards, and the judges\u2019 own phones during the audition, before bringing out his wife and daughter for the big finale.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Jake Banfield\"\/>Jake Banfield with his family (Image: ITV)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Simon Cowell questioned how anyone could not believe in magic after seeing his performance, while Amanda Holden said it was done \u201cbeautifully\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Having described Britain\u2019s Got Talent as \u201clike the Premier League of magicians now\u201d, Jake appeared delighted as he thanked the judges \u2013 including Watford\u2019s own KSI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bushey-based Jake Banfield, 37, wowed the judges and received four yeses with his magic act during his audition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-599202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}