'I faced Britain's Got Talent fix allegations but they're a big compliment'

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3 days ago

BGT finalist Harry Moulding has hit back at claims his magic act is a fix after his act ended with an engagement.
Jess joined the magician on stage for the final moment of his act and her boyfriend, also called Harry, then popped the question, "Will you marry me?"
Moulding talks to Yahoo UK about how his upcoming show-stopping act that will upstage the engagement in the BGT final on Saturday, 31 May.
About the 'fixed' allegations — if you want to call it that — first and foremost: thank you so much to everyone for giving their opinions. Just the simple fact that people have their own opinions of magic is great in itself.
Ultimately, with magic, almost the biggest compliment to a magician is where someone doesn't know how they don't know how it's done! So often the only explanation for the method they can think of is, "Oh, well, it must be a fix, because if not, I just can't fathom how that would have happened."
So just the fact that what's happening is amazing in itself. I was hoping to leave a bit of a talking point for people.
Watch Harry Moulding pull off his magic act that ends in a wedding proposal
Obviously, it wasn't a fix. Britain's Got Talent is one of the biggest shows in TV and it was absolutely genuine that Jess had no clue what was going to happen that night. No one was in on it. There was no actors. Jess wasn't in on it. The judges weren't in on it.
It was real. The fact that people are talking about it. Always with good news, there's always bad but to me, it's not even bad news, it's more just the simple fact that it's got people thinking it's great.
For me, the most important thing is entertainment.
I just want people to have a good time when they watch me perform or watch any of the magic that I create. It's all about creating an experience with people.
Whether it's to make them laugh, whether it's to make them feel moved, to feel amazed, that's what it's about. And if it fools them as well, that's a bonus.
Saturday night was the biggest moment of my life and now hopefully for Jess and Harry, it'll be — fingers crossed — one of the biggest moments for them too as well. So to be able to make that happen in such a memorable way was just the biggest honour in the world.
With it being live TV and with it being magic, there's so many things that can go wrong. If one element of that act didn't work, the whole payoff would have been ruined. It would have literally been game over.
Thankfully, everything just fell into place perfectly. All came together and made the most impossible magical result at the very, very end and I couldn't be happier.
But the nerves leading up to it, in all honesty, that just helps build into the excitement and the buzz and it's just such a mix of emotions. It's the best feeling in the world.
It doesn't feel real yet that I'm in the final. Last week has just been the most amazing whirlwind ever and the second I managed to find out I got through on Saturday.
I was just straight into now trying to make the most of this week and prepare to make this Saturday the biggest performance of my life, so it's not all really sunk in just yet. I still can't believe it.
I've been watching BGT since I was seven years old, right since the first series, Year after year, I've always dreamt of being able to get to where I am now, and now that it's actually happening, I can't quite believe it. That definitely overrides any sort of nerves, and it all just channels into such an energy of excitement that I've never been able to before.
This is the best thing I've ever done in my life. This act, Saturday night, is genuinely going to be the biggest performance of my entire life. I'm putting everything into it.
Hopefully, if everything goes to plan that I'm working on, if it all falls into place on the night, it's going to be the biggest thing that I've ever done before in my life. I'm literally going to be taking magic to the highest point that you could imagine. Wait and see.
I can't wait to show you what I've got in store and I hope you enjoy it.
Harry Moulding told his story to Lily Waddell.
The Britain's Got Talent final airs from 7pm on Saturday on ITV1.