Matty Juniosa Sends Bgt Final After Two Golden Buzzers
Matty Juniosa turned a bgt semi-final into a direct final place on May 30 after becoming the only contestant ever to receive two Golden Buzzers from the judges. The Filipino singer’s run now skips the usual elimination route and sends him straight to the last stage.
His semi-final performance of Aerosmith’s Dream On had already drawn more than 2.4 million YouTube views in five days. That kind of reach pushed his name beyond the room where he sang it and into the wider competition conversation before the judges’ second Golden Buzzer landed.
Glasgow Bars to Bgt
Juniosa moved from the Philippines to Scotland in 2022 to train at Glasgow’s Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, then worked as a waiter while performing in bars across Glasgow. He said on STV Radio’s Ewen and Cat at Breakfast that he wanted to do something “quite out of pocket,” adding, “In terms of the schools I applied for in the whole world, Glasgow’s RCS was the most appealing to me” and “This is where I should be.”
He also said, “People Make Glasgow?” and described the city as part of the reason the move felt right. “I genuinely felt so welcome right away on the first day,” he said, adding, “Right away, it felt like family.”
Horseshoe Bar Videos
Producers approached him multiple times because they kept finding videos of him at Horseshoe Bar. Juniosa said, “They kept finding videos of me at Horseshoe Bar.” That is the clearest sign his stage work in Glasgow did more than cover bills; it built the paper trail that eventually brought him to the show.
The judges’ second Golden Buzzer is the unusual piece here. One buzz takes a performer forward; two is the outlier that made Juniosa the only contestant to ever do it, and it leaves the competition with a direct answer about who has momentum heading into May 30.
Ewen and Cat at Breakfast
Juniosa appeared on Friday on STV Radio’s Ewen and Cat at Breakfast for an exclusive chat and live performance with Ewen Cameron and Cat Harvey. The interview gave the clearest account yet of how a singer who had been working Glasgow bars while studying ended up bypassing the semi-final result and landing in the final.
For viewers, the practical takeaway is simple: Juniosa is no longer waiting on a standard semi-final decision. For the show, the bigger takeaway is that a performer with a documented online audience of more than 2.4 million views in five days now enters the final with a rare competition story and a direct route there.
