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'Britain's Got Talent': Trip Hazard The Dog Gives The Most Charming Performance Of The Series

Entertainment Editor, HuffPost UK

It was a case of 'Jules and Matisse who?' was the latest ' Britain's Got Talent ' dog act took to the stage on Thursday (26 May) night's semi final.

Pooch Trip Hazard and his owner Lucy gave the most charming performance of the series, as they made the public almost forget about last year's winning canine act.

The duo performed an adorable 'Beauty And The Beast' routine to the song 'Be Our Guest' from the classic Disney animation.

Trip and Lucy were highly praised by judges Simon Cowell , Amanda Holden , Alesha Dixon and David Walliams , who gave them a standing ovation.

Simon told them: " The whole country is going to fall in love with Trip, because I have. He’s an adorable little thing. Your relationship and the way you interact is very charming."

However, it wasn't quite enough to see them through to the final, as they lost out on a place to Jasmine Elcock and Craig Ball .

They could still be made either the public or judges' wildcard act, though, with two more acts to be confirmed ahead of Saturday night's show.

'Britain's Got Talent' concludes on Saturday at 7.30pm on ITV.

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Trip Hazard And Lucy and Bitter Harvest are given a late stab at stardom as they're revealed as wild cards through to Britain's Got Talent final

By Emily Sheridan for MailOnline

Published: 07:52 EDT, 27 May 2016 | Updated: 08:09 EDT, 27 May 2016

Dog act Trip Hazard And Lucy and dance duo Bitter Harvest have been invited back for the Britain's Got Talent final after being chosen as this year's wild cards.

Dog trainer Lucy, 30, and her adorable Maltese-Pomeranian and ballet dancers Shannon and Peter will join the 10 finalists for Saturday's live final.

The two wild cards were revealed on Friday after the dancers were chosen by the judges Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden and David Walliams, with Trip Hazard voted for by the public.

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They're through: Dog act Trip Hazard And Lucy will perform on Britain's Got Talent's final on Saturday night

Judges' choice: Ballet dancing duo Bitter Harvest, aka Shannon and Peter, will also performance during the live final

Trip Hazard were seen looking disappointed on Thursday's semi-final after they narrowly missed out on a place in the final to impressionist Craig Ball and singer Jasmine Elcock.

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Delighted Lucy said: 'We are so thrilled and so thankful for the support and to have been selected as the Public Wildcard.

'We can't wait to get back on that stage and have the opportunity to hopefully make everyone smile again and show off more of what Trip can do.'

Disappointed: Lucy looked sad when she found out she wasn't progressing after singer Jasmine Elcock was chosen on Thursday night

BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT FINALISTS 

100 Voices of Gospel - vocal group

Mel and Jamie - Singing duo

Wayne Woodward - Singer

Alex Magala - Sword swallower

Richard Jones - Magician

Boogie Storm - Dance troupe

Beau Dermott - Singer

Balance Unity - Dance troupe

Craig Ball - Impressionist

Jasmine Elcock - Singer

Bitter Harvest - Ballet dancers

Trip Hazard - Dog act 

Meanwhile, Shannon and Peter were thrilled to be back on the show after they missed out on a place following their performance on Monday's semi-final.

They said: 'We are more than ecstatic about being the Judges' Wildcard. We are also truly humbled and feel blessed to have their support and belief in us.

'There are no words to describe how much support we've had as well from the British public. This is the biggest thing that's ever happened to us and we want to make everyone proud.'

Saturday's final will see the two wild acts compete with 100 Voices Of Gospel, Mel & Jamie, Wayne Woodward, Alex Magala, Richard Jones, Boogie Storm, Beau Dermott, Balance Unity, Craig Ball and Jasmine Elcock.

Magician Richard, 25, is currently the bookies' favourite to win Saturday's show, meaning he will perform at the Royal Variety Show later this year. 

The Britain's Got Talent Grand Final is on ITV1 on Saturday, May 28 at 7.30pm.

On no! Shannon reacts after finding out she and Peter hadn't made it through to the final during Monday's semi-final

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“Lucy has infectious enthusiasm when it comes to dogs and training – she makes you look at your dog in a whole new light”

Hi I’m Lucy! I’m a professional dog trainer with 18 years experience and at heart I’m still just that little girl who is obsessed with dogs. I’m a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (01143) and I only use kind, reward based training methods.

I’m probably most well known for reaching the final of Britain’s Got Talent with my little pal Trip Hazard in 2016, for placing 5th on Britain’s Got Talent 2024 and for our enormous following on TikTok (1.9 million).

I started out my training journey with Lincs Dog Training , where I was mentored on my way to becoming a dog training instructor and passed my assessments with the Association of Pet Dog Trainers. I taught for Lincs Dog Training alongside my day job as a post lady for Royal Mail until I eventually left Royal Mail to set up my own dog training.

From 2014 I worked as Head Animal Trainer at The Company of Animals Training and Behaviour Centre in Surrey, teaching a huge variety of different training classes and workshops, 121 training, implementing follow up training with clients for the behaviourists and assisting expert witnesses Dr Roger Mugford and Dr Kendall Shepherd in assessments of dogs seized under the Dangerous Dogs Act.

After reaching the final of Britain’s Got Talent with Trip, I was able to change my life and focus entirely on my passion for training and performing with my own dogs and teaching others how to train tricks and Heelwork to Music.

My biggest passion is my dog display team work. I love giving family-friendly, entertaining and educational performances all over the UK with my own dogs, getting the audience engaged and involved.

I specialise in Heelwork to Music – having qualified for the Crufts finals (the top 10 in the UK) 16 times and been selected for Heelwork to Music Team GB 4 times with 4 different dogs. I am also a qualified Heelwork to Music judge. Trip and Foxy were selected to be part of Team GB to compete at the FCI European Open Championships in Italy in October 2023, where Foxy placed 2nd in the Heelwork to Music and Trip Hazard placed 5th in the Freestyle, contributing to team GOLD in the Freestyle division and team SILVER in the Heelwork to Music division. In 2024 I qualified 3 of my dogs for the Crufts Heelwork to Music and Freestyle finals, with Trip Hazard placing 3rd (due to barking deduction) in the Freestyle final with his Lion King routine and Foxy placing 2nd in the Heelwork to Music final. Trip, Foxy and Strike are all members of Heelwork to Music Team GB to compete at the European Open Championships in Stuttgart, Germany in August 2024.

I also work as an animal trainer and handler for film and television. Some of the more recent projects I have worked on are the latest We Buy Any Car advert with Foxy ( Charlotte Wilde Film & TV Animals ), Hilton Hotel advert where my Dizzy worked with Paris Hilton ( Charlotte Wilde Film & TV Animals ), the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, training and handling Queen Charlotte’s Pomeranians in series 1, 2 and 3 ( Birds & Animals UK ), movie The Electrical Life of Louis Wain with Benedict Cumberbatch ( Charlotte Wilde Film & TV Animals ) and the Netflix series The Hidden Lives of Our Pets ( Charlotte Wilde Film & TV Animals ). Trip was in a recent episode of Silent Witness, running away from his owner and finding a dead body in the Thames! ( Birds and Animals UK ).

As well as training and handling animals behind the scenes, my dogs and I have made frequent television appearances over the years including That Dog Can Dance, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Britain’s Got Talent, Britain’s Got More Talent, This Morning, CBBC How to be Epic at Everything, Play Your Pets Right on Sky, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The One Show and Blue Peter.

I enjoy many activities with my dogs such as canicross, stand up paddle boarding, hiking and dock jumping.

About the 4 legged team members

Trip hazard.

Trip is a 9 year old Pomeranian cross Maltese and he is an absolute legend. Trip made it to the final of Britain’s Got Talent, has starred in pantomime at the Liverpool Echo Arena and is a very well trained and experienced film dog, having starred in many adverts and had bit parts in TV series such as Ted Lasso and Pennyworth. He has also been a very successful Heelwork to Music Freestyle dog, taking 4th, 3rd and 2nd at Crufts and 5th in the European Open Championships 2023. That aside, he is an absolutely hilarious character, always “talking” in his strange little gurgles and dancing for no reason. He adores people and other dogs and has the innate ability to brighten up anyone’s day with his character.

Stillmoor Star Turn – Foxy

Foxy is a 10 year old Border Collie. She is an Advanced Heelwork to Music and Freestyle dog. Foxy is one of the top Heelwork to Music dogs in the UK, having just taken 2nd place at the European Open Championships in Italy in October 2023. Foxy is a real sweetheart and we joke that she has a built in “emotion detector” – if you are sad, before the first tear even falls, she will be snuggled up to you in concern! She is so obsessed with toys that she has even been seen passing toys to the neighbours visitors over the fence so they throw them back into the garden for her!

Stillmoor Here Comes the Sun – Strike

Strike is a 5 year old Border Collie (Foxy’s nephew) and has a starring role in ITV’s “The Secret Life of Our Pets” (now on Netflix as “The Hidden Lives of Pets”). As soon as Strike was old enough to compete, the pandemic started, so he had a late start. He has blossomed into the most fantastic performer and really gives 100% to everything he does. He flew up through the classes and finished his first year of competing as an Advanced Freestyle dog. He won Advanced Freestyle this year to secure his place in the Crufys Freestyle Semi Finals. He is a mummy’s boy through and through, and can be a bit shy with people he doesn’t know.

Halohound Set the Tempo – Tempo

Tempo is a 2 year old Border Collie. She was bred by my friends Lucy and Rob Creek. I loved her parents so much that when I saw they had mated them, I just had to enquire! I am so glad I did. She is everything I could have hoped for and more. She is a sweet, friendly dog with a lovely nature, and when it comes to training and working she is as fast as lightening and so incredibly keen, focused and motivated. She did her first competition this year in Novice Freestyle and won her class with a super high score!

Dizzy, better known as Tiny D, is a 7 year old Pomeranian cross Maltese. She is related to Trip but is a very different dog. She weighs in at a tiny 1.5kg and can’t even jump onto our sofa at home, but she absolutely adores training and showing off! She loves being held, stroked and fawned over by anyone who comes to see us at events. Dizzy has done lots of film work, but her most ideal job was being Paris Hilton’s dog in a Hilton advert!

Emperatrice Romantic Angel – Princess Peach

Peach is a 2 year old Maltese. She is absolutely crazy in the best of ways! All of my dogs love her, she loves all people, all dogs, she is just a very gregarious and outgoing character! She is coming on amazing with her training, she learns very quickly and is incredibly fast! Peach has also done some filming work in a new book to tv series adaptation.

Gone but not forgotten

Tachnamadra tartan embers – ash.

Ash was my first proper “dog of my own” and passed away a couple of weeks before his 16th birthday. In his prime he was a super agility dog and dabbled in Heelwork to Music Freestyle, working at Intermediate level with points towards Advanced. He always took part in my event demonstrations and also did film work. Ash liked every dog and every person. You would most likely see Ash at events with us letting him have a wander around the stalls, hoping for some freebie treats!

Foxearth Follow Me – Trent

Trent was a pedigree Smooth Collie – a vulnerable native breed. Trent was a sensitive boy who tried his paws at everything with me – Heelwork to Music, Agility, Obedience. Trent made it to Crufts in 2015 as part of team Smooth Collie in the Obreedience competition. He gained a Silver Versatility award with the Rough and Smooth Collie Training Association. Most of all, he was my buddy. He loved me and he loved every person he met, with his wagging tail and his excited “pufflecheeks”. He left us at 13 years old due to a mystery illness that the vets could not figure out.

Stillmoor Winter Sun – Indie

Indie was a Red Merle Border Collie and she passed away at over 15 years old, sadly taken from us by a brain tumour. Up until the day she died she loved to do training for fun and charge about on our walks like a 3 year old – she was very lucky that she never did age physically really. Indie was one of the top Heelwork to Music dogs in the UK for many years, taking 2nd, 3rd and 4th places in the finals at Crufts. Indie also won the ITV show That Dog Can Dance, judged by Sharon Osborne, Bill Bailey and Ashleigh Butler. She was my soul mate and I owe her so much – she changed my life. Everything that is good in my life came about because of her.

Britain's Got Talent star on training dogs for Bridgerton, TV fame and golden advice

Lucy Heath, 36, from Birmingham, was a finalist on Britain's Got Talent 2016 with Trip Hazard, and has since featured in ITV's The Secret Life of Our Pets, Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show and even trained Pomeranians for Bridgerton

• 15:12, 6 Jun 2022
• Updated 17:02, 6 Jun 2022

Since performing on Britain's Got Talent in 2016, Lucy Heath and her talented pup Trip Hazard have gone on to achieve incredible things.

From appearing on Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show to starring in crime series Pennyworth and training dogs for Bridgerton, the doggy duo have experience it all.

Sharing her career highlights, Lucy told The Mirror : "It really is my dream job. I'm not rich from doing any of it but I'm able to do what I love for a living and be comfortable. There's nothing else I'd rather do."

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The 36-year-old discovered her love for dogs at a young age, after watching Mary Ray's spectacular dancing show on Crufts.

Lucy said: "It was the most magical thing I'd ever seen. I was obsessed. It could make me cry and I always dreamed of having a bond with a dog like that.

"The minute I got my first dog, I started watching YouTube tutorials to learn tips and tricks."

When Lucy was 21, she got Shetland sheepdog Ash and began working with a local dog training business in Grantham performing at small displays.

In 2012, Lucy rose to fame after winning ITV's That Dog Can Dance with her border collie Indie.

The TV show kickstarted her entire career and she was later scouted for Britain's Got Talent in 2016.

"Britain's Got Talent was one of the proudest moments of my life," Lucy said.

Also high up there is ranking second place at Crufts with Indie, which Lucy says was a "magical" moment.

Now, Lucy and her partner Ross have eight dogs in total, including collie Foxy, nine, Pomeranian cross Trip Hazard, eight, Pomeranian cross Dizzy, six, collie Strike, three, collie Tempo, one, and her latest pup who is yet to be named.

"A lot of people think my house must be crazy, but the dogs are super easy - it's my 18-month-old son that isn't!" Lucy chuckled.

With the help of her agency Birds and Animals, Lucy got a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Netflix's Bridgerton in 2019.

The professional dog trainer was tasked with handling six Pomeranians for the roles of Queen Charlotte's pets.

"I borrowed the dogs from the breeder of Trip and Dizzy, all six of them were pedigree Pomeranians," Lucy said.

"I didn't have to train them to do any tricks, it was mostly to sit still and stay on set."

Lucy was taken on by Charlotte Wilde Film and TV animals to train cats for The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, and found stardom with her collie Strike on ITV's The Secret Life of Our Pets in 2021.

And her TV fame doesn't stop there - Trip has featured in a John Lewis Christmas ad, starred in Pennyworth and Ted Lasso and even performed on Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show.

Lucy has also trained her pups to help around the house when they're off-duty.

"Trip can put things in the bin, tidy away toys and fetch me objects. He's even learnt how to paint a canvas," she said.

"We're always up for something new. I mainly love to do event performances and work with my own dogs," Lucy said.

From Crufts to DogFest and All About Dogs, you'll find Lucy and The Trickstars at every big dog event in the UK.

Though fans don't just enjoy watching her in person - she's become a star on social media too.

Lucy's TikTok account, The Trickstars , has more than 30.4 million likes and 1.7 million followers.

"We had absolutely nothing to do in lockdown so my partner Ross and I started doing daily dance challenges, then we made dog versions," Lucy said.

"Our first couple of videos went viral really fast. It kept us all amused in lockdown."

Lucy documents her favourite tricks at home with her doggy family and shares advice for other aspiring trainers on TikTok.

"My number one training tip is to always take your dog to a positive reinforcement training class," she said.

Talking about her plans for the future, Lucy added: "I'm happy seeing where the wind takes me. One day, I would love to go on Britain's Got Talent again but with multiple dogs."

Maybe we'll see Lucy and Trip back on our screens soon.

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