A number of hopefuls including a pensioner who combines impersonating Sir Sean Connery with chopping wood and a regurgitator will battle it out tonight for a place in the 'Britain's Got Talent' final.
The first of five live semi-finals takes place tonight with eight acts including Bollywood dancers and acrobatic gymnasts performing.
Nearly 200 acts were given call backs but only 40 made it through to this week's live shows on ITV. Each night two acts will earn places in Saturday's grand final.
The performance with the most public votes will go through automatically while judges Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden will pick their favourite out of the second and third most popular acts.
Actor Sean Sheehan, 66, from Anglesey, Wales, worked as an extra on films including 'Willow' and 'Mortal Kombat' and played Sir Sean Connery's double in 'First Knight'. He decided to create an act using his impersonating skills, singing voice and wood cutting abilities.
"I have been cutting wood since a very early age as we never had central heating, I have always sung and the Sean Connery element was something that I have done in the past and thought it would be different to put all three elements together," he said.
"I have never performed these three elements together and the first time I performed this was at the 'British Got Talent' auditions."
Fellow semi-finalist Stevie Starr - dubbed The Regurgitator - described how he discovered his unusual talent when he moved into a children's home at the age of four and began swallowing his pocket money. After realising he could bring coins back up he went on to swallow more and more objects and developed control over how he regurgitated them.
