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Kirsty McCormack

Who is on BGT tonight? Wednesday's semi-final includes Tom Ball and Golden Buzzer magician

Britain's Got Talent returns for a third round of live semi-finals this evening as eight more hopefuls take to the stage at London's Hammersmith Apollo.

Judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams will be watching as the contestants attempt to impress them and bag a place in this Sunday's final.

However, only two acts will be allowed to go through and win the chance to perform at the Royal Variety Show.

So far, there's four acts in the final line-up and these are singer Maxwell Thorpe, ventriloquist Jamie Leahy, comedian and impressionist Ben Nickless, and duo Flintz and Taylor.

Here's the acts who will be competing in Wednesday's semi-final...

Les Sancho

Dance group Les Sancho are made up of dance teachers from Marseille in France (ITV)

Dance group Les Sancho are made up of dance teachers from Marseille, France, and wowed the audience at their first audition with a very impressive routine.

All four judges loved Les Sancho and their dancing, which featured a twist or two, and the crowd were cheering the group on too.

Les Sancho shared their excitement to be on BGT, saying it was a "level up" to previous competitions.

They seemed to be alluding to their prior TV fame in France, as they talked of the British version being the "first" and "biggest" one of them all.

The Freaks

Austrian acrobatic act The Freaks  left all four judges open-mouthed with their 'out of this world' performance (Thames/Syco/REX/Shutterstock)

Austrian acrobatic act The Freaks left all four judges open-mouthed with an "out of this world" performance.

After their first audition, comedian David said: "That was utterly terrifying, and thrilling and one of the most extraordinary things we've ever seen on Britain's Got Talent."

The act used girls as skipping ropes after catapulting them through the air and across the stage.

Their next trick then saw them make a human ladder to throw one girl to the top of it, but this was a bridge too far for the fearful judges, who were left shaking at the end of the routine.

Alesha shouted from the judging panel “Oh my goodness me!” while a terrified Amanda replied: “Oh my God!”

Eva Abley

Eva Abley is a 14-year-old schoolgirl from the West Midlands who has cerebral palsy (Matt Frost)

Eva Abley is a 14-year-old schoolgirl from the West Midlands, who has cerebral palsy, and took to the stage during her first audition to perform stand up comedy and her routine had the judges in stitches.

“I'd like to apologise if you can't understand me, I have a disability called cerebral palsy, and I'm from the black country,” she joked.

“So if you can't hear, wait until you get home and rewatch it with the subtitles on."

The judges were left in hysterics as she added: “My full medical diagnosis is spastic ataxic quadriplegic cerebral palsy.

“Really? I have enough trouble asking Alexa a question and they expect me to say that? I mean, come on!"

Keiichi Iwasaki

Magician Keiichi Iwasaki is Wednesday evening's Golden Buzzer act (ITV)

Keiichi Iwasaki is Wednesday evening's Golden Buzzer act after BGT hosts Ant and Dec decided to accelerate him through to the semi-finals.

During his first audition, the magician - who is from Japan - made judge Alesha's ring levitate and left everyone in awe.

However, he's also been surrounded by controversy after it was reported that he has auditioned on the franchise in three other countries.

He has auditioned for the show three other countries, including Italy in 2016, Bulgaria in 2021 and Spain in 2019 where he made it to the semi-finals.

Keiichi also auditioned for Germany's Das Supertalent last year.

Immi Davis

Schoolgirl Immi Davis belted out I Put a Spell on You by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins at the auditions (ITV)

Nine-year-old schoolgirl Immi Davis belted out I Put a Spell on You by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins at the auditions.

Immi looked relatively shy as she took to the stage in her baggy jeans and tie-dye hoodie, making her rendition of the 1956 hit all the more astonishing as she belted out the tune.

Dane Bates Collective

Dane Bates Collective performed a touching contemporary routine based on the true story of a prisoner of war during World War Two (ITV)

Dance group Dane Bates Collective made it to the semi-finals after they performed a touching contemporary routine based on the true story of a prisoner of war during World War Two.

BGT was accused of 'recycling acts' after viewers realised that they'd already seen the act on The Greatest Dancer in 2019 where they were judged by Diversity's Jordan Banjo.

The Dots

Harmony trio The Dots performed a comedy cabaret music routine at their audition which left the judges in stitches (ITV)

Harmony trio The Dots performed a comedy cabaret music routine at their audition which left the judges in stitches.

The trio took to the stage to explain that they'd had to replace one of their members at the last-minute over 'creative differences.'

They told the panel that one of the original dots walked out. "They were a bit difficult shall we say," they explained, when pressed on the fall-out.

And as the act got underway, head judge Simon sat open-mouthed and tried to work out what was going on as the boogie woogie-style close-harmony singers performed out of time with each other, forgot their steps and squabbled.

But then he admitted: "The penny has dropped," as things became even more chaotic.

"It's like light-bulb moment," fellow judge Amanda Holden teased Simon as it became clear that The Dots were a slapstick comedy ensemble. One of the trio pretended to be left with a bloodied nose after being struck with a trumpet as part of the act. She then lost her skirt in the kerfuffle as her bandmate lost her wig.

Tom Ball

Teacher Tom Ball blew everyone away with his extraordinary voice as he sang Writing’s on the Wall (ITV)

Tom Ball blew everyone away with his extraordinary voice as he sang Sam Smith hit Writing’s on the Wall.

The 23-year-old teacher from West Sussex received four yeses from the judges and will sing his heart out again tonight in the hope that he'll sail through to Sunday's final.

Britain's Got Talent continues tonight at 8pm on ITV and ITV Hub.

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