Britain’s Got Talent fans believe they have cracked the code behind the latest magic act’s performance on the ITV series.
In a surprising twist, four former illusionists from the talent show made a comeback and joined forces for an extraordinary performance. Ben Hart and Elizabeth, who both had successful runs on the show in 2019, with Elizabeth giving judge Amanda Holden quite a fright with a spooky trick, were part of the group.
Colin Cloud, who auditioned for the show in 2012 before finding greater success on the American series in 2017, was also part of the team. Aidan McCann, a veteran of both BGT and Ireland’s Got Talent, completed the quartet, now known as Magicians Assemble.
The group claimed to have returned from the future through time travel, with a mission to save magic. They asserted that they could demonstrate the existence of time travel as they had foreseen certain events, including which cards the judges would select from a deck when prompted.
Bruno Tonioli, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Simon Cowell were all left astounded by the sequence of events during the audition, which included card tricks, predicted numbers and Aidan’s sudden appearance on stage out of nowhere. The act even concluded with judge Simon vanishing from the room, leaving his fellow judges worried, reports the Mirror.
The spectacle began with the card trick, with Ben identifying the cards the judges had chosen before they even selected them. Then, as Amanda and Alesha each rolled a dice, they were oblivious to the fact that the numbers displayed on the top of the dice would play a significant role.
The atmosphere was electric as the sand from their timer mystically transformed into fog in Elizabeth’s hand, before reappearing in a teacup held by Amanda. The spectacle escalated when an avalanche of sand seemingly fell from the ceiling, and the group astonishingly expanded to include a fourth member, a young lad named Aidan.
Aidan then sauntered down to join Ben with the judges, and that’s when the act took a bizarre turn. The numbers previously disclosed by the cards and dice, along with a page number chosen at random, were all imprinted on Ben’s head as a tattoo, revealed as Aidan shaved his hair.
Alesha was tasked with verifying the authenticity of the tattoo while the judges looked on in shock. But the surprises didn’t end there; Simon was summoned to the stage, blindfolded, and then seemed to vanish, leaving only scraps of paper behind.
Viewers at home were quick to speculate on how the magic was performed. Some eagle-eyed fans claimed they spotted a fake thumb used for some sleight of hand, while others pointed out “invisible” cards.
As for the tattoo revelation, sceptics suggested Ben might have had alternative sets of numbers hidden, ready to be unveiled if different numbers had been selected. And the vanishing and reappearing acts?
Many attributed those to clever backstage illusions.
One viewer commented on X: “Fake thumbs are always a good un,” while another concurred: “The plastic thumb trick, i had in my magic set when i was 8. Awful.”
Another fan observed: “Spotted the fake thumb,” and one viewer remarked about the numbers: “They must just shave his head dependent on which numbers come up.”
A viewer noted about the cards: “First trick invisible deck, top half one card, bottom half the other. Book was a svengali book. Almost every trick on this show uses those two methods.”
Regarding the dice trick, someone queried: “Nobody’s heard of loaded dice before? “.