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Stavros Flatley

Stavros Flatley (Originally Stavros Flatly) are a novelty dance duo who reached the Final of Series 3 of Britain's Got Talent. The duo consist of Demi Demetriou and his son Lagi. Demi was aged 40 at the time of their audition, whereas his son Lagi was aged 12 at the time of their audition.

To begin their audition a voice over played stating ‘Would you please welcome, Mr. Stavros Flatley’ before Lagi ran out onto the stage and lifted one arm towards the judges desk before performing a traditional Greek dance routine, at which point Demi ran out onto the stage and held his arm out, before the duo performed the routine separately, before eventually performing the routine together, later throwing off their wigs. Simon described their performance as ‘One of [his] favourite ever dance acts’.

In the Semi-Finals, the duo entered the stage through the open walls to a Greek piece of music whilst wearing Fez’s with small plaits towards their side, with Demi entering first and Lagi entering second. The duo then went on to perform a traditional Greek dance routine whilst wearing these Fez’s alongside skirts, which they later threw off of the front of the stage. Amanda remarked 'I think your great dancers [and] your very very funny', with Piers adding 'It's exhausting isn't it keeping up with [Lagi]'. They won their Semi-Final and advanced directly onto the Final.

In the Final, the duo once again came out separately with Demi skipping around the stage before Lagi came out and performed solo whilst wearing the same wigs as their audition. They then began to perform a traditional Greek dance alongside one another, whilst accompanied by several backing dancers to Lord Of The Dance, before performing the traditional Greek dance routine alongside one another, before throwing off their wigs. Amanda commented 'I want you to win the show', with Simon adding 'I thought it was absolute utter genius'.

After BGT[]

In October 2011, they appeared on Celebrity Coach Trip alongside X Factor Contestant Wagner Carrilho on Day 9, replacing Emma Louise Boughton & Lizzie Cundy, however departed the Series after a day for reasons unknown.

The duo performed at the Royal Variety Performance 2012 alongside Diversity, Spelbound and Paul Potts.

In 2016, the duo returned to BGT as guest performer as part of a group of guest performing acts. They appeared as contestants on Sugar Free Farm in it's second series. In 2017, the duo both appeared as a part of Kenzii & Aaron's date on the second ever episode of ITV2's 'Dress To Impress'.

The duo returned as guests to 4MGs Semi-Finals performance 10 years on from their original appearance in Series 13. 4MG's Semi-Finals performance had consisted of creating an anagram with help from the judges of another BGT act. They later revealed that the anagram when unscrambled created the act name Stavros Flatley, as Demi and Lagi then exited from one of the locker doors that they had been within during this act onto the stage, before the duo performed a short routine.

In the spring of 2019 Stavros Flatley appeared on The Champions (Series 1) to represent both Great Britain and Cyprus. The act began with a woman on a circular stage behind the judges desk playing a flute, as several dancers danced. It was then that the pair entered the stage separately and performed traditional Greek dancing with several drummers accompanying the performance. Alesha described the duo as 'the most iconic Britain's Got Talent act', with Simon adding that he had believed that 'The crowd went crazy', before giving the pair his golden buzzer, thus advancing them onto the Final.

Either late at night on Thursday 3rd October 2019, or early in the morning on Friday 4th October 2019 the duo announced that they were splitting up after the Final of the first series of BGTC. Stavros Flatley will live on as Demi is set to continue the act with his nephew Samson, in the meantime Lagi will be focusing on his barber shop in Cyprus which surprisingly contains a Stavros Flatley Museum, which is located in its bathroom.

In the Final, the pair walked onto the stage through an opening door which had a large circular shape on it, after a dancer danced on the circular stage behind the judges desk, before the duo alongside several backing dancers taught everyone how to perform the traditional Greek dance that they performed. David commented that he believed what they had done was 'Great', with Amanda going on to agree with this alongside the comments provided by the other judges. The duo came second overall, one place above third placed Kseniya Simonova, yet one place below first placed Twist and Pulse.

In Winter 2020 the original duo returned to BGT as part of the Britain's Got Talent Christmas Spectacular. The performance began with one half of the duo entering the stage upon a sleigh and the other dancing upon a giant bauble and midway through the performance both Ashley Banjo & David Walliams joined the duo upon the stage and performed traditional Greek dancing alongside them. To conclude the routine the duo threw off their wigs which were caught by Amanda & Alesha who then began to spin them around.

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