Winning Britain's Got Talent isn't about £250,000 prize, says The Blackouts

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Swiss dance group The Blackouts say that winning the £250,000 prize in Britain's Got Talent's final on Saturday isn't the ultimate goal for them.
Dancer and team manager Elias Schneider tells Yahoo UK: "It's not about winning for the money [on Britain's Got Talent]. It would mean the world to us if we could win Britain's Got Talent — performing in front of the Royal Family."
But that doesn't mean they're not totally uninterested in the money. Schneider quickly adds: "We would invest the money in new shows, bigger shows, and maybe go on a live tour in the UK."
The winners of BGT 2025 not only get £250,000 but they also get an enviable spot on The Royal Variety Performance Show where they perform in front of the King and Queen.
Watch The Blackouts performing on Britain's Got Talent
In the BGT final the group will once again show off their show dancing in LED suits. They are no stranger to talent shows, having previously got to the final of Switzerland's Got Talent in 2016 and Germany's Das Supertalent in 2024.
Despite their wealth of experience on TV, not everything ran smoothly for the group in the live semi-final as they were hit with a setback behind the scenes.
Britain's Got Talent was brought to a halt during the live semi-final when The Blackouts suffered a technical glitch. "It was terrifying," Schneider remembers. The Blackouts had their performance brought forward as Teddy Magic, eight, pulled out last minute (and later quit the talent show).
Nerves were at an all time high for the group but Schneider reveals they managed to put on an incredible light show. He says: "In the semi finals, we had to go on stage earlier than planned because of the magician Teddy Magic who couldn't go on stage. Everything was really stressful behind the scenes. We weren't ready when we should have been.
"It made it just even more stressful for us backstage, but in the end we managed everything, went out on stage and had a great time. This won't happen for sure again. We hope in the final the timeline will stay the same like in rehearsals. So it will not be a problem for us and we're ready for the final."
"We were so nervous in the beginning," he adds. "We weren't ready. It was so stressful that all the nervousness went, so we just managed everything and you didn't have any more time to get nervous, so that was like yeah, the good thing about it."
The Blackouts are sworn to secrecy with their plans for their final performance but dancer and show creative Raphael Broder did spill a few secrets. "What you're allowed to know is that it's going to be as always, bigger, with a lot of storytelling and with a lot of surprises for sure, that's all we can tell by now," he says.
"Of course we have a pile of ideas that we always wanted to use, and what better way to do it on Britain's Got Talent? So, now we're developing those ideas and they're coming up amazingly."
Before the group could start practicing their moves, Broder explains how the team had to put together the lights on the computer. "It's a lot of working in front of the computer, tweaking things here and there," he says, "before we get into the rehearsals, and putting all the technical stuff with the dancing."
The majority of the work for their performance goes into the programming and choreographing, rather than learning the dance moves.
With just days until the final, The Blackouts team have said the ITV show has changed their lives forever.
Schneider says: "[Britain's Got Talent has changed our lives] a lot. Britain's Got Talent is the greatest thing ever we have done. It means really a lot to us and it's really nice to be in the UK. The audience and the people are so nice and we feel really welcomed there. And it's just amazing and for sure, life-changing because we have got a lot of requests for our shows worldwide."
Britain's Got Talent's final airs on ITV1 at 7pm on Saturday, 31 May.