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Britain's Got Talent unicyclist leaves Ant and Dec horrified as he dices with death in semi-final

Unicyclist Wesley Williams had Britain's Got Talent hosts Ant and Dec recoiling in horror as he diced with death during his dangerous semi-final performance.

After a daring audition the Florida performer was back in action on Saturday night, vying for place in next week's grand final.

And the 21-year-old definitely upped the ante second time round as he sat atop a number of unicycles and skipped with a flaming rope, nearly toppling over at one point.

If that was perilous enough, he then crossed a bridge of fire before making his away across the stage up 30ft up in the air BLINDFOLDED, asking the shell-shocked BGT judges to direct him as he went!

As David Walliams and Ashley Banjo could barely watch, the judges frantically shouted out instructions to try and get him across safely without taking what would have been an absolutely catastrophic tumble.

But the best reactions came from Ant and Dec with both of them standing with their hands over their mouths in sheer disbelief after Dec had already stepped back in horror during Wesley's fire skipping stunt.

Wesley even panicked himself at one point, shouting "shoot!" as he pedalled blind but, thankfully and to the relief of everybody involved he reached a rope ladder and pulled himself to safety before descending centre stage to finish his act in style.

Giving his comments, David told Wesley: "You're a very naughty boy and you must never do it again! It's thrilling but you can't wait for it to end!

"It would be the end of our careers as well...man plummets from 30ft unicycle!"

Ashley added: "I really didn't think you could make it as, let's be real...you nearly fell off the little one so when that came out I was like 'wait a minute...are you sure about this?'"

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