How Did He Know?! This Magician Reads the Judges’ Minds on Britain’s Got Talent!

Now I have a gift here. This is a gift which is going to be for one of you judges in just a few moments, but I'm going to leave it there. For now, I also have two notebooks. On each of these notebooks, I have different things written. One is for you, Amanda. As I flick through, would you mind reading some of these out for me? Jennifer Aniston, Madonna, Brad Pitt, Taylor Swift, Vin Diesel, Halle Berry, Emma Stone, Tom Hanks. They're all celebrities, 60 celebrities to be precise. If you could hold your hand flat for me, place your other hand directly on top and just hold it there. I also have one for you, David. This one here is a drinks menu. On every page is a different drink. Please read some out for us. Cola, Fanta, Mojito. Vodka, rum, whiskey, I'm right now, I was just, I was just... You can hold your hand flat and place your other hand on top now just with your thumb lift up make sure no one sees And just take a peek of whatever you choose and then slam it closed for me And please could you stand up and just throw them onto the stage because we no longer need those Unleash the anger perfect. Good throw David. Okay, Amanda. We're gonna start with yourself. You're thinking of a celebrity Is that correct? Yes. Thinking of a celebrity just stand up for me What I need you to do is send your thoughts straight directly into my mind I need you just with your finger look me directly in your eye and just touch me just on the forehead there You felt that, right? Thank you so much. Now, what you've just done is you've just directly sent your thoughts into my mind. And I'm now going to very creatively find out who you are thinking of. Now, believe it or not, before I became a magician, I spent six years in an origami intensive training center in the heart of Japan, just so I could be here with you guys doing this right now. Now, am I right in saying this is someone who's very particular about their hair? Yes. And I think it's probably a man. Don't give anything away, but I'm going to just That's perfect. Okay, Amanda, please tell us, this wonderful audience, who are you thinking of? David Beckham. David Beckham. If I open this up, I've made something very, very special for you to keep. We have... Is that correct? Correct. Would you mind now revealing to us the drink that you have been thinking of? It's the drink I'm drinking right now. Which is? A cup of tea. A cup of tea! A cup of tea. Now, this has been here the whole time. It's been in front of yourself, Simon. Yup. Inside here, ladies and gentlemen, just as you asked for, Lime soda! It's a little bit awkward, but we can still fix this. Don't panic. Could you just reach out your hand just here for me? Just send me that positive energy. I didn't like it! Believe it or not, you've now just filled me with all of your kinetic energy, which allows me to act almost like a microwave. So the can starts to heat up. Oh, come on. It gets hotter and hotter. Please feel it. What? Feel the can. It's getting hotter and hotter. Just make sure that is a sealed can. I always do think of one drink you said breakfast tea. Is that right? Correct. If I open this up, ladies and gentlemen, just what you ordered. In a can? Please taste it. It's a proper cup of tea. Please taste it, make sure it really is tea. A delicious cup of tea. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Good evening. Tonight I have a gift once again, which I'm going to leave in front of you Simon for now. I need you to just keep an eye on it and make sure no one touches it just for now. I also have the wonderful Amanda Holden's autobiography I think. and a photograph of our judges. Alicia, I need you to do me a favor. In just a moment, I'm going to riffle through the pages. I just need you just to say stop wherever you like for me. Okay. Stop. Are you happy there? It's up to you. We can go forward and back. No, that's fine. You happy? What I need you to do is just remember for me just the page number that you've stopped on and also just the first word on the page for me. Okay, have you got that please remember it and we're gonna come back to that in just a moment now Amanda I actually kept the receipt for your book. Don't panic. I was never planning on taking it back. I It's nice to have you here. Just wanted to show you that Magic is all around us all the time We just have to choose to find it if I was to go back in time for example and get my cash back It would look something like this Please tell us What was the page number that you just chose a moment ago? 176. 176. Yes. Inside this gift, which has been here the entire time, is in fact a message in a bottle. If you look closely, you'll see that actually it is a page. If I open it up so you can all see, it is in fact a page from your book, Amanda. Alicia, please tell us, what page have I got here? 176. 176, the same page. Please turn to page 176 as quick as you can for me, Alicia. As quick as you can, and you will find that page 176 no longer exists in the book. Because this isn't just a matching page, but this is in fact the exact page. Alicia, you also chose a word for the first time. Please tell us, which word did you choose? One of my favourites, bottom. Bottom, great choice, great choice. Ladies and gents, it's been an absolute pleasure and a real dream come true to perform live in front of the nation tonight. Just to finish, burnt into the page, the chosen word, bottom. Thank you. I'm going to be performing classic magic that magicians have been performing for many years. But I'm going to put my spin on it and use it to tell a story about a very special person and one of the people who inspires me the most in magic. He was born in 1918 and he went on to become one of the youngest members of the Magic Circle at the time in 1936. When World War II broke out, he enlisted into the Royal Artillery. And he was sent to the front line in Singapore where he fought bravely for king and country. While he was there, he underwent heavy fighting. He lost many of his friends and he himself was shot numerous times and severely wounded. His family thought he was dead, but in fact he was captured and he spent the next three years of his life in a prisoner of war camp. Amanda, would you sign this card as quick as you can for me? While he was in the camps, he underwent brutal treatment on a daily basis. Treatment that no person should ever have to go through. But one thing that did keep him going was his ability to perform magic. Because he would perform not only for his comrades to keep morale high, but he would also perform for the guards, who would give him and his friends... Extra food during the long periods of starvation. But he would have, his favourite trick was to have a sign, a name, to rip it into pieces, to burn it, completely destroying it. Pass, fix. And in a second of impossibility, restore hope among his comrades. That makes me proud to be British. This is the story of Mr. Fergus McCorn. To you. It's great to be back. Now there are 717 audience members here this evening. Each and every one of you when you arrived should have written your first name and the town in which you're from on a ticket and we have a box full of those tickets here. Each one, thank you very much, each one has a number numbered 1, 2, 717 and correlate to the order in which you arrived into the studio this evening. I'm going to bring them down here so you can see judges and so everyone at home can have a look too. So if I pull a few of these names out. So for example, we have here Pete from Enfield is number 74 He's in here somewhere, congratulations. We've got Susan from Kent. And as you can see, each one has a different number. Now, Alicia, I need you to do me a favor. In your mind, I need you to think of a three-digit number. Any three-digit number below 717. Below 717. Have you got one in your mind? This is tough for her. Two minutes. Have you got one? Please tell us, what is the number you're thinking of? 333. 333. Well, it turns out 333 Is correct. Okay, David. David, you're now going to choose a member from the audience for us. But it's very important that the people at home know that this isn't set up and you're not just choosing someone you know. So tonight you're going to be throwing an object into the audience. Whoever catches it is going to be our volunteer. What's the object? So here we go. So tonight on Britain's Got Talent, David, you're going to be throwing this brick. Someone here now don't panic ladies and gentlemen. It is only sponge, but it's not an illusion if this is flying towards you Please do put up your hands to catch it otherwise it will probably still hit you in the head So where there is blame there's a claim Absolutely, give it to someone. If you caught the brick, please stand for us We're going to get a microphone to you. Now, you can stay there. Thank you very much for joining us. What's your name? Marion. Marion? Yeah. Now, Marion, where are you from? Bracknell. Bracknell. And just to check before we move on, have you filled out one of these tickets? Yes. You have. Fantastic. Well, first things first, let's give Marianne a round of applause for helping us out on live TV. Millions of people watching, no pressure. Now Marianne, before we move on, put your name and where you're from. You didn't add any pictures or anything like that? No. Nothing rude? No. Okay, good. Just checking, because someone did. Okay. Now, we're going to get to know you a little bit before we move on. Who is your favourite act on Britain's Got Talent this year? Uh, Izzy. Izzy, right? Any fans of Izzy? Yeah, we've got magic fans in. Good. And arguably more importantly, who is your favourite judge? Simon. Simon! There he is. Bad selection, eh? Thank you very much. You can take a seat. It's now my job to locate your ticket in here in a stylish and interesting way using some skills that I've developed in my army training. So here it goes. Thank you. Feet into the air. It's my job to try and locate just one. Hopefully yours in an interesting way using my household cavalry sword. Here it goes. Gentlemen. I'm going to keep this here nice and clear so you can all see. David, I'm going to bring it down to you. You chose one person in this room. You chose Marianne from Bracknell. Please read out the name for us. Marianne Bracknell. Marianne from Bracknell. But wait, there's one more thing. Alicia, you thought of a number. Any number. You said 333. Please read out the number on Marianne's card. 333. 333. 333. Three years ago, I was lucky that I got to stand on stage next to one of my heroes. Fergus Ancorn was a fellow soldier and magician. And despite being a prisoner of war in World War II, he always remained one of the most positive and inspirational people that you could ever meet. Unfortunately, he passed away last year, aged 99. But he taught me some valuable life lessons. He taught me it's not how much time that we have here in life that matters, but instead, it's how we choose to spend that time. That's what really counts. He taught me to live in the moment and create lasting memories every single day. Now, one way we keep track of our happy memories are through photographs. Simon, I have up here my social media page which has got photos of happy memories from over the last few years of my life. What I'd like you to do, Simon, as I scroll through the images, I would just like you to tell me when to stop scrolling, please. Okay, we're going to leave that to settle on a memory. David, since being on the show, I've been very, very lucky. I've performed all around the world. I'll be very lucky, some of the places I've been to are here. We've got Germany, Italy, America, Afghanistan, Austria. What I'd like you to do, David, is choose a string and pull one of the tags all the way out for us. Please tell us where you've chosen. Toronto, Canada. Toronto, Canada. If I take that back, Toronto, Canada, that is one of my favourite places. Watch closely. Alicia. This here, Alicia, is my lucky pocket watch. You see, this pocket watch, Alicia, you'll see as you spin this dial here at the top of the watch, you will see the time changes. What I'd like you to do, Alicia, is to carry on spinning that dial until I ask you to stop, please. Thank you. David, a moment ago, you chose Toronto, Canada from the selection. Simon, you've stopped scrolling on an image. It's a photo of me and a puppy. Amanda, can you just tell us, where am I tagged in this photograph? At the top. You are in, oh wow, you're in Toronto, Canada. Toronto, Canada, the same place. Now that may be a coincidence, but watch closely. There is something hidden in the background of this photograph. You see, hidden in the background of this photograph, we have a clock. Amanda, can you tell us what time is on that clock? It says two o'clock. Two o'clock. Alicia, if I take that back from you. Alicia, can you please tell us what time have you created on the watch? Ten to two. Ten minutes to two? Yes. Okay, you're ten minutes early. Sorry. But that's okay. That's okay, because I didn't tell you why this is my lucky watch. You see, this watch was a gift given to me by my friend Fergus before he passed away. And he's going to be the hero of tonight's story, because engraved on the back is one of his favourite mottos. Alicia, can you please read that out for us? A good soldier is always ten minutes early. Can I actually be back three years ago? My journey in magic began by accident. One night a friend of mine Dean had a pack of cards in his hand and I asked Dean to take a card out without looking at it to place it face down on the table. I asked Dean to name a card and he said the four of hearts. When I turned over that card it was the four of hearts and in that moment my destiny changed. That's when I realized how powerful magic is. This here is the actual card from all those years ago and every time I see it reminds me of It reminds me to be grateful, because I know if it wasn't for my army friends, I wouldn't be here tonight. Amanda, can you please touch the back of any one of these cards and hold your finger on one of the cards for us, whichever one feels lucky to you. This one here. Thank you, Amanda. Now, these cards tonight are made up of 51 unprinted cards and just one lucky four of hearts. Oh, my God. Will you please write your name on the card nice and clearly for us? We're going to lose your card into the pack tonight, Amanda. Do you mind, Amanda, can I borrow one of your rings? Is that okay? Yes. If I borrow that? Thank you very much. Amanda, I would like you to think of some of the people in your life right now who have helped you in some way, in some way that have helped make a difference to you. We have people who change us in some way, just like Dean and my army friends did for me. They changed my journey all those years ago. It's often in our darkest moments when we feel lost that our true friends help us. Light up the direction for us to follow. Amanda, your ring is burnt through all of these cards, all the way until one card. This is your lucky card. This is more than just a card now. Please hold onto it tightly and please bring it with you onto stage now. Okay. Do you mind if I take the card back for a second? Your name, Amanda, on this card. Please hold your right hand flat. Now, Amanda, I would like you to think of just one person in your life, one person who went above and beyond when you needed it most. Do you have a name in your mind? Who is this person? Her name is Pippa Nightingale. She delivered my baby and she saved my life. Amanda, you're going to keep this card just like I kept Dean's card all those years. Every time you see it, you'll be reminded of all the people you're grateful for in life. But more importantly, you'll be reminded of your friend, Pippa Nightingale. Please hold your hands up and hold my hand, because I have one more gift for you. One of the greatest winners we've ever had on Britain's Got Talent. When I see you, I'm reminded how proud I am to work on this show. You are fantastic, my friend. The storytelling, the heart, how much this means to you. And I'm proud of you once again. We're always trying to make magic personal. Have a story and have something that touches our hearts. And you certainly did that absolutely beautifully. Well, I love you, Richard. You just get better and better and better. You just draw us in and then you do something utterly extraordinary. And it was the perfect mixture of one being an incredible trick and one being incredibly emotional as well. Wow. I mean, I take my hat off to you. It was extraordinary. I can't believe you got picked. I don't know how you did that. She's an extraordinary person and you're an extraordinary magician because it's the emotional pull, it's the story, it's everything that goes with you that makes magic believable and real, and it was amazing. How do you feel when you hear those comments? Years ago, so many people went out of their way to help me. Every time I come back, I feel that love straight away. Thank you so much. We're applying for Richard Jones. Thank you.