Britain's Got Talent fans 'rumble' magic trick behind 'time travel' act that wowed judges

Viewers of Britain's Got Talent believe they have cracked the secrets behind the latest magic act's performance on the ITV series.

In a surprising twist, four former illusionists from the talent show returned and teamed up for an extraordinary performance. Ben Hart and Elizabeth, who both had successful runs on the show in 2019, with Elizabeth giving judge Amanda Holden quite a fright with a spooky trick.

Colin Cloud first auditioned for the show in 2012, before finding greater success on the American series in 2017. Aidan McCann has appeared on both BGT and Ireland's Got Talent. Now, they're all back for another shot, this time together as Magicians Assemble.

The group claimed to have returned from the future via time travel, promising to save magic. They claimed they could prove the existence of time travel as they had witnessed certain events beforehand, including which cards the judges would select from a deck when prompted, reports the Mirror.

Bruno Tonioli, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Simon Cowell were all left gobsmacked by what happened throughout the audition, from card tricks, predicted numbers and Aidan suddenly materialising on stage out of nowhere. The act even concluded with judge Simon vanishing from the room.

It all began with the card trick, with Ben identifying which cards the judges had before they even selected them. Then, as Amanda and Alesha each rolled a dice, they were oblivious that the numbers displayed on the top of the dice would be significant.

Suddenly their timer containing sand was poured into Elizabeth's hand, only for it to transform into fog. The missing sand then appeared in a tea cup Amanda had been told to hold.

Following that, a huge amount of sand appeared to fall from the ceiling to the stage, only for the trio to expand with a fourth member, a child named Aidan. Aidan then headed down to join Ben with the judges, and this is when things got very weird.

The numbers revealed previously by the cards and dice as well as a page number were all picked at random. But as Aidan began shaving Ben's head, a tattoo appeared at the back of his head and it was those exact numbers.

Alesha checked the tattoo was real as all the judges gasped. It wasn't over though as Simon was called to the stage and blindfolded, and he appeared to disappear and turn into bits of paper.

Viewers tuning in at home were quick to claim they knew how certain parts of the act were done. Some viewers claimed to have spotted a fake thumb used to aid some of the trickery, while others noticed "invisible" cards.

As for the tattoo on the head, viewers suggested Ben probably had other sets of numbers elsewhere that would have been revealed if the numbers were different. As for the disappearing and appearing people, that was put down to backstage trickery.

One viewer commented on X: "Fake thumbs are always a good un," while another concurred: "The plastic thumb trick, i had in my magic set when i was 8. Awful."

Another fan observed: "Spotted the fake thumb," and one viewer speculated about the numbers: "They must just shave his head dependent on which numbers come up."

A viewer noted about the cards: "First trick invisible deck, top half one card, bottom half the other. Book was a svengali book. Almost every trick on this show uses those two methods."

Regarding the dice trick, someone queried: "Nobody's heard of loaded dice before? ".

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