It’s all about theatrics :),' Lara said on Twitter. There will also be a abort signal he can give or button he can press. “I will escape in 2 minutes.” This escapologist knows he can hold his breath for 5 minutes. Otherwise it would've already have been on the news and they wouldnt show it tonight,' a Twitter user said.

'What you don’t know is that he can hold his breath for 6 minutes,' a commenter wrote on YouTube. Of course, Basso defied the odds and made it out but people accused Basso of faking his struggle during the act to make it seem more dramatic. Judges and audience members sat on the edge of their seats, worried for the 36-year-old's life as he spent three minutes and three seconds trying to escape the water cell. Britain's Got Talent contestant Andrew Basso stunned the audience with his escape from a water torture cell but viewers think they've spotted the answer to Basso's incredible trick.īasso, 36, performed a death-defying trick during his Britain's Got Talent audition: Harry Houdini's water torture cell escape.Ī person restrained by their hands and feet is lowered into a water cell upside down and then must escape in under a certain amount of time.

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