CONCERNED viewers have criticized America’s Got Talent for its inclusion of a very risky performance.
The Ramadhani Brothers auditioned in the second week of season 18 of America’s Got Talent, but fans voiced their worry for the pair.
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In the act, the two brothers from Tanzania showcased their incredible acrobatic skills, with their head-to-head balancing shocking the live audience and TV viewers.
Fadhili Ramadhani and Ibrahim Jobu performed in front of judges Simon Cowell, 63, Sofia Vergara, 50, Heidi Klum, 50, and Howie Mandel, 67, in a nail-biting act.
At one point, the performers climbed up a ladder, with one balancing on the head of the other completely hands-free.
As they stood in front of the ladder, host Terry Crews, 54, admitted: “Oh my goodness, I don’t know if I can watch this.”
The judges all looked terrified by what was to come, with Heidi clutching onto her neighbor Howie’s arm.
After the talented duo had made it to the top of the ladder, Terry turned to the camera and revealed: “There’s no net!”
This meant that if the Ramadhani Brothers fell from the top, it would be straight onto the hard ground of the stage.
On Reddit, one horrified fan blasted: “I feel like the brothers’ act was super scary and dangerous, and Terry even said they didn’t have a net… like why would they risk a major injury and have another incident like Jonathan Goodwin had? He’s paralyzed.”
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RISK TOO FAR?
Jonathan Goodwin is a Welsh retired stunt performer, escape artist, and daredevil who gained widespread fame after appearing on America’s Got Talent.
However, after originally reaching the semi-finals, Jonathan decided to return to America’s Got Talent in 2021, this time as a contestant in the new spin-off series America’s Got Talent: Extreme.
The show was described on the NBC website as “the most outrageous, unique and jaw-dropping acts of enormous scale and magnitude that simply cannot be confined to a theater stage”.
During his act, the 43-year-old was crushed between two suspended cars while trying to escape a strait jacket upside down 30ft in the air.
Jonathan’s fiancée, Sherlock actress Amanda Abbington revealed in May that her partner now uses a wheelchair after he sustained a number of serious injuries.
She explained: “He fell 30ft and lost a kidney, broke both shoulder blades, shattered both legs. Third-degree burns, broke his spine and severed his spinal cord and nearly died. And then on the operating table, he nearly died again.
“Unless there’s a kind of stem cell surgery, or that thing that Elon Musk is designing with the little chip, he’ll be like that forever.”
‘NOT WORTH IT’
In the season premiere of the show, acrobatic group Three G took to the stage, and proved that routines don’t always go to plan.
Soon after starting their routine, the group of three women was in a shocking, gravity-defying tower. Unfortunately, they soon fell to the ground.
The judges looked concerned, with Sofia turning away and trying to settle the audience.
The determined trio got back up and ran through a couple of other tricks, but tension rose when backstage staff pulled out a mat to place behind them on stage.
Just before completing the finale of their three-minute act, they once again fell.
They got up and attempted again, despite Howie’s fear, but toppled to the ground for the third time.
On Twitter after the performance, one concerned viewer said: “I was rooting for them however it was not a clean act. They were very shaky. Judges should have told them to practice more and come back next year. Not worth breaking your neck.”
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