A 50th birthday gift from her fellow Spice Girls, a picture of a dog and a mobile phone. <\/p>\n
Those were the prized possessions that three America’s Got Talent judges watched a former Blue Peter presenter appear to smash with a hammer. <\/p>\n
But like all magic tricks, everything was not quite as it seemed and moments later the treasured items returned.<\/p>\n
Joel Mawhinney, known as Joel M, said the “risky” trick was “the scariest experience” of his life.<\/p>\n
But as he reminded the judges: “Everything that disappears must reappear.”<\/p>\n
Going into the judges dressing rooms and taking some of their prized possessions might not be the best way of getting them on your side.<\/p>\n
Smashing those items with a hammer is even less likely to help your chances.<\/p>\n
Yet that is exactly what Mawhinney did, leaving Mel B, Sof\u00eda Vergara and Howie Mandel stunned before revealing that every item had somehow survived.<\/p>\n
Mandel’s phone appeared inside a locked box that had been sitting in front of the judges throughout the audition.<\/p>\n
The phone then began receiving texts from Mawhinney revealing where the other judges missing valuables had ended up.<\/p>\n
Vergara’s framed picture of her dog was hidden inside her seat cushion, while Mel B’s bracelet was concealed in one of the famous Got Talent red buzzers.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know how you do it. I believe in magic but I loved it,” Mel B said when giving her verdict, which was a yes.<\/p>\n
Vergara laughed and said the “magic was very impressive”. She also voted yes, adding: “I don’t know if this was necessary, but it was very exciting.”<\/p>\n
Mendel called Mawhinney “charming, you’ve got a good look”, but it was a no from the comedian, calling the performance “too slow”.<\/p>\n
Cowell agreed on the length of the performance and said “you can’t do that on a live show”.<\/p>\n
“Our audience love magic, which is exactly the reason I’m going to say yes.”<\/p>\n
With three yeses, Mawhinney progressed to the next stage and remains in with a chance of winning the cash prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 50th birthday gift from her fellow Spice Girls, a picture of a dog and a mobile phone.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-703361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703361","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=703361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}