{"id":465506,"date":"2026-05-02T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/465506\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:52:13","slug":"alesha-dixon-hits-golden-buzzer-and-sends-britains-got-talent-act-into-final-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/465506\/","title":{"rendered":"Alesha Dixon hits golden buzzer and sends Britain\u2019s Got Talent act into final \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alesha Dixon has pressed the Britain\u2019s Got Talent golden buzzer and sent a semi-finalist act through to the final.<\/p>\n

The ITV talent show returned to screens as eight acts performed during its second semi-final, out of five, for the chance to appear at the Royal Variety Performance and win a cash prize.<\/p>\n

Saturday night saw the 66-person dance group Sadeck Berrabah & LMA, from Liverpool Media Academy, praised for their slick synchronised act so much so they were sent straight to the final.<\/p>\n

Dixon described the group as a \u201cbreath of fresh air\u201d before Simon Cowell said the act was \u201cgobsmackingly beautiful\u201d and \u201cstunning\u201d.<\/p>\n

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He said: \u201cThis is not easy. This is the most beautifully made watch.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the best act we may have seen on the live shows so far this series, I think it\u2019s that good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each week one of the judges has control of the golden buzzer and is able to send one act straight to the final \u2013 with Dixon chosen for this week.<\/p>\n

On Saturday\u2019s show, she said \u201cin the auditions, remember what I said to you, I said, if I had a golden buzzer I would have given it to you\u201d, before standing up and sealing the act\u2019s fate, hitting the golden buzzer and sending the group straight to the final.<\/p>\n

\"AleshaAlesha Dixon attending the Britain\u2019s Got Talent launch (Ian West\/PA) <\/p>\n

The remaining acts will need to count on the public\u2019s vote to get them through to the final.<\/p>\n

Before the dance group\u2019s performance, YouTuber and BGT judge KSI said an illusion act by one of the semi-finalists was \u201cone of the most incredible things\u201d he has ever seen in his life.<\/p>\n

Magician Fabian Fox\u2019s act featured an appearance from the YouTuber\u2019s primary school teacher.<\/p>\n

Fox asked the judges to pick a number of letters and numbers before he \u201ctime-travelled\u201d by driving a motorcycle on to a cage which was suspended in the air.<\/p>\n

Within seconds he vanished and appeared in the crowd before returning on stage to play a video of his \u201ctrip\u201d.<\/p>\n

The video showed Fox at KSI\u2019s primary school after the first sequence of numbers and letters spelled out its postcode.<\/p>\n

He later entered one of the classrooms where he rearranged the second sequence that was written out by the judges and spelled out KSI\u2019s former music teacher\u2019s name, Mrs Batts.<\/p>\n

She appeared in the video and was asked to write out a mystery word which was placed in an envelope.<\/p>\n

Fox then asked KSI to read out the word he wrote out at the start of the act before revealing that they both had \u201cgamer\u201d written out.<\/p>\n

KSI said: \u201cIf I had the power to press the golden button, I would.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is honestly one of the most incredible, incredible things I\u2019ve ever seen in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

His thoughts were echoed by the rest of the judging panel, who praised Fox for his thoughtful act.<\/p>\n

Saturday night\u2019s episode was the second of five semi-finals which saw eight acts perform for the chance to progress to the finals.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Got Talent returns on ITV on Saturday at 7pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alesha Dixon has pressed the Britain\u2019s Got Talent golden buzzer and sent a semi-finalist act through to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[164404,204404,83938,18,117,204405,19,17,90807,204416,19498,128,1294],"class_list":{"0":"post-465506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-alesha-dixon","9":"tag-bgt","10":"tag-britains-got-talent","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-fabian-fox","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-ksi","17":"tag-sadeck-berrabah-lma","18":"tag-showbiz","19":"tag-tv","20":"tag-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}