
Ben Hart is a magician who reached the Final of Series 13 of Britain's Got Talent. Before his audition, he revealed that he performed his own shows and invented magic for other people, adding 'I hope [the audience] can see that magic is real'.
In his audition, he asked people to visualise an object in a glass bottle and write them on confetti. He then took a piece of confetti that he picked out that had said the word 'egg' and had bounced it on a hand fan. He then threw a paper aeroplane into the audience which was picked up, revealing a floor plan of the studio. He asked the woman who picked up the plane to make a mark anywhere - this turned out to be seat L34, where a woman names Annika was seated. She was brought up onto the stage, and then teleported from one cage to another via a tesla coil. Simon described the performance as 'unbelievable', with Alesha adding 'that's just done my head in'.
His Semi-Final performance saw Alesha given a matchbox, and he lit a match, swallowing it before revealing that it had returned to the matchbox, and the smoke had entered into a glass that he had placed a saucer atop of. He then asked Simon to pick a card and determine when it had disappeared, before revealing that the card itself had become the matchbox that Alesha had, and contained the matches. Simon remarked 'I think what’s so good about you is that you go from so large scale to so small but right in front of our eyes', with David adding 'In medieval times you would have been burned to the stake'. He won the Public Vote and advanced directly onto the Final.
His Final performance saw him give a backstory of him and magic - how his grandfather grew up in India, and how, in monsoon season, he saw a magician making cards smaller and smaller before they simply became dust. He then began his trick by eating popping candy and remarking 'it's monsoon season', before making the cards shrink until they were simply dust, which he blew onto the stage. Alesha remarked 'every time we see you, you just get better and better', with Amanda adding 'you’re so professional and so slick - I just feel you’ve got a huge, huge future'. This act was enough to get Hart into the top three, and he finished the series in third place overall.
Before BGT[]
He taught Maisie Williams from the HBO series Game Of Thrones some tricks she needed for the show. He was also a magic editor and advisor, or a magic consultant on certain BBC shows such as New Tricks, Now You See it, Trick Artist, The Egg Trick, Killer Magic, Not Going Out, Help My Supply Teacher Is Magic!, and Help My School Trip Is Magic! He is a Good Star Member of the Inner Magic Circle.
He appeared on Ben Hart's Life Hacks (later Ben Hart's Life Hacks with The Voice), The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The One Show, Partners In Rhyme, ASAP, and Umagang Kay Ganda. He also used to present his favourite videos on a show named Myx. He created advertising campaigns for Trident, Nicorette, Costa Coffee, and Sky TV. He used to perform magic live on the air for BBC Radio One, and was the person who created the world's first 360 magic trick.
He is the writer of four solo shows named The Outsider in 2013, The Vanishing Boy in 2014, Belief? in 2017, and The Nutshell in 2019. He performed as part of Impossible which was a play produced by Jimmy Hendry, as he played two seasons of this show starting in 2015. He played these two seasons at the Noel Coward Theatre in London's West End, Dubai Opera, Singapore, Smart Araneta Coliseum in the Philippines, The Royal Albert Hall, London Palladium, and Wembley Arena.
Ben Hart is also responsible for special effects in certain theatre productions such as The Exorcist, I and You, A Christmas Carol (2017), Dracula, WILD, Wonderland, Out of My Head, The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society, and Darker Shores. He has won five awards, these being The Magic Circle's Young Magician of the Year in 2007, The Magic Circle's Irving Schneider Award Scholarship, National Reality Television Awards "Best Non-Competitive Reality Format" for Killer Magic, and The Magic Circle's Marvin Rising Star 2018 which was awarded to him by Marvin Berglas.
After BGT[]
In the spring of 2019 Ben Hart represented Great Britain on BGT: The Champions (Series 1). Via his opening VT he stated that he believed several books on magic existed, and he had been trying to read as many as he could since the end of BGT series 13, to create the best ever magic trick in the world.
In his Champions performance Hart prepared an 'entire life cycle' for his performance which began by showing the judges and live studio audience a twenty pound note, later asking Amanda to sign it for him, so that she would recognise it when she saw it again. He then stated he would 'breathe life' into it, before folding the note, and breathing on it later making it flap like wings, before the note began to levitate. Hart retrieved the note, then placed the twenty pound note on his mouth as it then blew away as if it were blown by wind. He then crumpled up the note and made it disappear, before a lightbulb in a lamppost upon the stage went out, and Hart stepped on the lightbulb and crushed it, later unfolding a note and showing everyone that it truly was the note that Amanda had signed. Amanda commented that he had a 'real kind of old soul, spiritual, kind of weirdness' about him, with David praising him stating 'he made [him] believe in magic'. He did not make the Final of the champions.
In January 2020 he competed on the second series of America's Got Talent: The Champions, where he failed to impress the judges and was eliminated in the preliminaries. Later in 2020 he is due to perform a sixty five day long UK tour named Wonder. In Early August 2020 Hart appeared on When Kids TV Goes Horribly Wrong alongside Francine Lewis.
In Winter 2020 he appeared upon the Britain's Got Talent Christmas Spectacular, and went on to perform a routine inspired by 'A Christmas Carol' wherein he had Ant & Dec sign a coin with the Number 2 prior to his performance beginning. He then began his performance by retelling the story of 'A Christmas Carol' whilst wearing a hat which he later removed. He then had the coin disappear before removing a whole egg from his mouth and spitting some milk into a glass, before making a cake appear and revealing the coin to have been within the cake.
In 2024, he returned to audition for Series 17 of Britain’s Got Talent as the lead member of magic group Magicians Assemble; a group made of up past BGT magic alumni Elizabeth Best, Colin Cloud & Aidan McCann.