Britain's Got Talent golden buzzer Act Axel Blake has spent time in a youth offenders’ prison. Axel was seen on last nights, April 17, ITV show and got into the live semi-finals as Simon Cowell pressed the Golden Buzzer.
Axel Blake said that the ‘toxic and horrible’ experience made him turn his life around and follow his dream of becoming a comedian. Simon Cowell told him: "After what everybody has been through these last couple of years, we needed acts like you,” reports the Daily Star.
But dad-of-two and property maintenance worker Axel admits his life could have taken a very different turn. When he was growing up, he got in with the wrong crowd and claimed there was "peer pressure" to do things to keep in with his pals.
