Showbiz | Celebrity News I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice . A South African opera singer and a South Korean group who performed taekwondo stunts are the first two acts through to the final of Britain’s Got Talent.
Judge Simon Cowell described the production by Ssaulabi Performance Troupe as “one of the best” live acts he’d seen in the history of the ITV talent show. Meanwhile, singer Innocent Masuku, who wowed the judges in his January audition before getting married, said “this is my year” after he received the most votes from the public and was automatically sent through to Sunday’s final. Dog act The Trickstars missed out on the chance to continue to compete for the £250,000 prize and a spot at the Royal Variety Performance, after the judges unanimously chose to send through the Ssaulabi Performance Troupe.
The taekwondo group, who said they practise five hours a day, received the golden buzzer from hosts Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly in their first audition, meaning they were automatically sent through to the next round. After their semi-final performance, Cowell said: “If that was a movie, that would have taken about a week to shoot, literally, it would. “And the fact that you did the whole thing live in about two-and-a-half minutes, says everything about you.
“I forget how many years we’ve been doing this now actually, but this is actually one of the best live show pe.
