BGT 2024: Golden Buzzer stars’ devastating battles as they ‘pray for a miracle’ - from heartbreaking setback to brain tumour

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Unlike previous years, there were nine Golden Buzzer acts in the 2024 series of Britain's Got Talent from comedians to dancers and singers.

With the live semi-finals about to begin OK! caught up with three of the acts who were automatically sent through after their incredible first auditions.

But how will they fare in the next round? Ravis Dream Team Nine-year-old Ravi Adelekan reduced the judges to tears with his rendition of The Greatest Showman’s A Million Dreams in Britain's Got Talent.The Brighton schoolboy performed alongside a choir made up of his family, teachers, friends and the doctors who have treated him for the benign tumour he has on his brain stem. “It was a lot of fun with all these friends and family with us,” he says, while his supportive mum Bethan reveals that it was more nerve-wracking for the adults than it was for her son. “We were terrified!

The whole thing was Ravi’s idea and most of us on the stage are very uncomfortable in that position. But we’re doing it for a good cause and because it is what he wants to do.” Ravi chose the audition song – “it was one of my favourite songs at the time of my diagnosis, so it’s been a song that’s come with us on an amazing journey” – and he is also in charge of where the prize money would go should he win Britain’s Got Talent. “We would definitely take the choir out for a very special day,” he says, “but the rest would be split evenly between The Brain Tumour Charity and Brainstrust so I can complete my fundraising goal of £250,000.” He’s determined to continue raising money and awareness, even if Bethan wants her son to slow down after the competition. “From my point of view, it’d be nice to have a small break from crazy projects, but Ravi keeps on coming up.