Glaswegian magician and hypnotist Fraser Penman blew the Britain’s Got Talent judges away when he tricked them into a mind game before using his astonishing telepathic talent to discover a story buried deep within Simon Cowell’s past.
Fraser’s audition has already racked up more than 300,000 views in little more than a week of hitting YouTube. Music Man readers can watch the magic unfold in the viral clip below…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPWFH5wtVAE%20
Interweaving Fraser’s mind-reading tricks is his astonishing story of being born with albinism: a condition that led to bullying, on one hand, and on the other, “a special ability to connect with people,” as Fraser tells the judges.
Fraser, 31, sets out to find “one very special person” in his BGT audience by using a simple trick of suggestion. One step at a time, he asks the crowd and judges to follow his directions as he raises one open palm in the air, makes a thumbs up with that raised hand, a thumbs down, an open palm again, an ‘okay’ sign with their thumb and forefinger, before telling them, “place it here on your chin” – misleading his audience by actually putting his ‘okay’ sign on his cheek.
Simon Cowell is the only one to correctly put his hand on his chin, not his cheek, stunning the rest of the judges.
Fraser carries on, asking Simon to go back to his childhood and “think of a memory which had a profound impact on your life […] Think of a name that you associate with this memory. Think of someone nobody could know.”
Simon does so, and Fraser asks Simon to lock eyes with him and telepathically send over the name. Fraser scribbles something down on a small chalkboard, and after Simon reveals that the first letter of the name was “W,” Fraser flips over his chalkboard to reveal that exact letter!
With the judges all spooked, Fraser asks Simon to think of an object associated with that memory. He does so and writes down the object on a concealed slip of paper. Fraser then writes down a seemingly random number on his chalkboard, “55-1-7.”
Fraser asks judge Amanda Holden to take the pocket dictionary from his old school satchel; a book Fraser describes as his “shield” during childhood, helping him to find the words he needed to explain his condition to bullies.
Amanda turns to page 55 of the dictionary, places her finger on the first column of the page, and runs it down to the seventh word of the list, as directed by Fraser and his chalkboard of numbers.
She lands on the word “bicycle” – the exact word Simon had previously scribbled on his concealed scrap of paper, leading Simon to reveal an obscure childhood memory of his school headmaster, Mr. Wilson, telling his students about riding a bicycle down a hill.
The crowd erupts into cheers as Fraser wraps up his magic show with the message, “If you can see it in your imagination, you can be anything,” earning a standing ovation and four out of four Yes votes from the judges, sending him straight through to the next round!