Alesha plays Russian roulette on BGT

Alesha Dixon couldn't bear to look as she was asked to fire staples into the face of a magician on Britain's Got More Talent.

The judge was a reluctant volunteer during magician Ryan Tricks' audition for the show, and joined the performance artist on stage to play Russian roulette with a staple gun.

Ryan asked Alesha: "Have you heard of Russian roulette? It wouldn't be clever to use real guns so I use staple guns."

After loading a gun with staples and after trying to influence Alesha about what to choose 'using his mind' he gets the nervous singer to pull the trigger with the gun pressed up to his hand, cheek and neck.

Meanwhile, presenters Ant and Dec faced the 'electric chair' in Ant and Dec's: Fairground Fantasy, taking it in turns to see who could endure the electric shocks for the longest.

And Britain's Got More Talent host Stephen Mulhern interviews Simon Cowell in the judges' room.

Stephen asked the music mogul when he had last used public transport. When Simon claimed: "Probably yesterday!", fellow judge David Walliams piped up, "You liar! You've got a Rolls Royce!"

Simon retorted: "But other people can get in it. That makes it public transport!"

Watch events on BGT on ITV this Saturday at 7pm.

 

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.