I made we're going so slowly. I know I'm trying to take the unicorn
You know, we've got no brakes David
Manchester, please. Take your seats
Hello hello
Who are you? My name is Jonathan Goodwin. Where are you from? I am from Pembrokeshire in southwest Wales
And if you brought anyone with you, no, I'm here by myself. Okay, and do you make a living from doing whatever that is?
Yeah, that is a big part of my living brilliant. And how long have you been doing it?
I've been doing what I do since I was seven years old, really
Yeah in the back garden typed at the bottom of her dad's banister
And what's the big dream I
Would love to do my own show. Actually. I
I travel a lot for my work
I'm a single dad. And so it's really hard to do that job and you know make my little girl pancakes in the mornings
To six she's not she knows
Hopefully at school. Yeah
My name is Jonathan and I'm a stunt performer
Basically anything your mom told you not to do on your kids. That's what I do for a living
Have a little six-year-old girl milli she's six-gun on 26
She loves what I do. She's always trying to bring me into school so I can do like show-and-tell she thinks I'm invincible
Millie's always coming up with stunts for me to do and they're always way more dangerous than I would ever do
One of my ambitions actually is to one day have the cojones to do a stunt that merely came up with
I've always wanted to come on Britain's Got Talent. Maybe the reason I haven't up until now is that I've been afraid of being judged
Which is silly given what I do is about facing your fears
No matter what shape they're in I guess even if they're Simon Cowell shaped
It looks like this is gonna be quite dangerous
One to ten how dangerous this is a good ten. Yeah. Brilliant
I'm excited. Good luck Jonathan Goodwin. Thank you
The first person to escape from a straitjacket was Harry Houdini and it was a feat which he said was the most
difficult of his entire career
Tonight I would like to attempt to escape from a straitjacket for you
Earlier I met mr. Devlin Dominique and I put you in the straitjacket and I gave you a go and we filmed it
Can we play that video in is that possible?
Yeah, there's not much
You didn't manage to get out it was difficult. Yeah difficult impossible
We gave you the straitjacket you've had that since before you took it off. No one's interfere with it. No
Oh you get your own back now cuz you get it put it on me
you can hold it up nice and high my arms are gonna go inside here and
Janine is gonna come help you do it up
When Houdini escaped from a straitjacket
He would do it hanging upside down hundreds of feet up in the air suspended by a single rope and then later
Other escape artists copied the ax but they wanted that take it up a notch
So they would set the rope that suspended them on fire. And obviously they had to escape before the Rope burned through
Tonight we're gonna kick it up a notch again tonight won't be the rope that's on fire
It will be me
I'm going to be doused in fuel
Hung upside down and set alight
Let's do this, my only lifeline will be the fire extinguisher hanging next to me
Are you satisfied that I'm restrained sir? Absolutely their new worker is done. Thank you
I'm actually quite nervous from
Oh my god, he's not you know that
There's much
Come on come on
I've never seen anything like that
Alicia I mean I can see why your ball
I've got me speechless to be honest
I mean, I've never seen anything like that on the show somebody hurting themselves at risk like that. Well done. Good for you Thank You
Simon especially likes very dangerous and sure that was right up history of mine too. And the audience's it was
incredible
I'm actually still a bit gobsmacked on that Jonathan. It was actually
Terrifying to see it getting near your face and then your arms. I mean you are absolutely not
Thank you
It wasn't an exaggeration. I mean you said it was a 10 I'm gonna call that an 11. I'm gonna ask you this though
What would you do next? Oh, I've got lots of really crazy ideas. It'll definitely go up
I'm going to kick this hook for the yes. Thank you
Yes, it's a yes for me but obviously four yeses congratulations
For haha my word well done
Incredible it's really hard top last and definitely
No way to see what you got next. I am going to celebrate and get incredible alive. I suppose it means well well done
Thank you, Joe. Nice to meet you. Well done
Wow, yeah, I told us on for a lie down. Let's go fill it light