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Britain's Got Talent's Amanda Holden vanishes as The Phantom returns but Simon Cowell condemns act

Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden vanished as creepy magic act The Phantom returned to the show on Thursday night, but Simon Cowell quickly panned the act, branding it 'pointless.'

There was a serious shiver sent through the London Palladium when invisible contestant The Phantom first tried out for the ITV show earlier this year, with Amanda absolutely terrified as she was summoned to the stage and ordered to clutch a balloon, which then popped right in her face. Things got even more creepy when keys that Amanda had picked out of a lost property box, turned out to belong to co-star David Walliams.

Amanda's worst fears came true on Thursday, when The Phantom was back for the Britain's Got Talent semi final and once again ordered her onto the stage, barking at her to hurry up as she made her way from the judges panel to the stage of the Eventim Apollo, as a live audience looked on. Her involvement started with her being told to stand on an X next to a desk, where papers blew in the air.

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