Watch One of the ‘Best Acts of the Season' on ‘America's Got Talent's Final Night of Auditions
It was just last week that the dance troupe Unreal from India won the final Golden Buzzer for Season 20 of America's Got Talent. And this week, a second dance crew from India, B Unique Crew, took the AGT stage – and one of its members was revealed to be a former dancer from Unreal.
'We know there was the Unreal crew, and you gave them a Golden Buzzer,' a spokesperson for B Unique Crew told Howie Mandel. 'And I would also like to tell you that G2 was part of Unreal before. And he left Unreal and gathered us all. And now we are here to present this act on the biggest stage, America's Got Talent.'
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The spokesperson explained that this group was created to compete against Unreal, and that they were going to give it their all even though they are aware that there are no Golden Buzzers left for Season 20.
'We will do our best and we believe in ourselves,' he says.
After their performance, Sofia Vergara tells them, 'This was one of the best, best acts of the season. You are taking Season 20 to the other level that we were saying. This was spectacular. It was surprising. It was very different. I've never seen anything on this stage like this.'
Mel B says she couldn't agree with Sofia more, adding, 'It was unique and that timing you have to have on point. The head turnaround was a bit freaky, but you could all dance. It was perfect for me.'
Then Howie adds, 'I love this job more than anything, but I've been looking over at the producers thing, going, 'I want to press it [Golden Buzzer],' and they're going, 'No, you can't press it.' I'm going, 'I want to press it.' And the boss says 'no.''
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Sofia chimes in, 'No, you can't. Then I want to press it.'
Meanwhile, the audience is chanting, 'Golden Buzzer. Golden Buzzer.'
Sofia explained to the guys, 'We're fighting because we want to give you a Golden Buzzer and they don't exist anymore.'
Simon Cowell interrupted her to say, 'I wouldn't [give them a Golden Buzzer]. I tell you why. I think it was good. However, I just think that at the moment it just felt a little bit too small. I do think, on a live show with bigger production, this could be incredible. That's my opinion.'
Even with that opinion, when the votes were tallied, it was four yeses for B Unique Crew, giving them the opportunity to go through to the Live Shows.
America's Got Talent airs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Streams next day on Peacock.
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