Britain's Got Talent's chaotic semi-final sparks fresh fix claims as fans share fury

has found itself in the midst of another fix row during the live semi-final of the show. Fans of the talent show looked on as singer Vinnie McKee was put through to the grand finale, but viewers felt the votes were fixed as other contestants should have made it through.

It was claimed that Vinnie had received the highest number of public votes but fans were let questioning that claim.Taking to X, one person wrote: "Fixed. Sick of the boring singers." Another penned: "Swear this is fixed."

Meanwhile a third person added: "Best two acts of the night going home. What a load of old s***. Left with two singers. Yawn. Might as well be ."

This came after the ITV show got off to a rocky start as one of the acts, Teddy Magic, was not ready to perform in front of the judges and live audience,

After the act Heavysaurus opened the show, hosts and were forced to make an announcement about the upcoming act.

They explained that the magician Teddy Magic, who is eight years old, was not ready to perform due to backstage issues.

Ant told the viewers and the audience: "Now, Teddy isn't quite ready backstage yet. He hasn't got his magic up and ready yet, so we'll chat to you judges."

On hearing the unexpected news, Simon Cowell responded saying: "Hang on, so the act's not ready? It's okay, it's live." Ant then quipped: "And he's only eight years old, so back off, man!"

But things continued to get worse as Dec then revealed Teddy was not able to perform and would appear on stage later in the series.

Earlier this month, was embroiled in following a surprise audition. An audience member jumped out of the crowd and asked to be given a chance to audition. Singer Max Fox seemingly left the judges shocked when he begged for a chance to perform.

Max explained that he had been trying to audition for years but was never able to get through and begged Simon for a chance.

He asked: "Can you give me one opportunity? I can show you what I've got." His audition clearly impressed the judging panel as then pressed the golden buzzer.

His impromptu audition was met with scepticism by fans as they claimed it was a fix. However, Simon denied all claims and even offered to take a lie detector test.

He told the : "I think I should be wired to a lie detector machine in the future to prove I'm speaking the truth because when something like this happens people instantly shout fix."

He added: "In this case do you really think I could be bothered to plant someone in the audience? No. But that's exactly what happened."

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