America’s Got Talent: Extreme‘s Jonathan Goodwin Hospitalized After Stunt Goes Wrong in Rehearsal
An accident on the set of America’s Got Talent: Extreme has left daredevil Jonathan Goodwin in the hospital with critical injuries.
“During a rehearsal last evening for America’s Got Talent: Extreme, an accident occurred in which escape artist Jonathan Goodwin was injured while performing his act,” a spokesperson for the show tells TVLine. “He was responsive and was immediately taken to the hospital where he is continuing to receive medical care. Our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family as we await further updates on his condition.”
According to TMZ’s initial report, Goodwin — who previously competed in Season 15 of America’s Got Talent, making it all the way to the semifinals — was performing a stunt that involved escaping from a straightjacket and falling onto an air mattress from 70 feet in the air, all while avoiding two swinging cars that were also suspended on either side of him. Goodwin was reportedly crushed by the cars, causing them to explode. Goodwin then reportedly fell to the ground and hit his head, causing some people on set to think he died.
An offshoot of America’s Got Talent, AGT: Extreme welcomes Simon Cowell back to the judges panel, joining newcomers Nikki Bella and Travis Pastrana. Terry Crews will also be back to serve as host.
Expected to premiere midseason, the new AGT series “will showcase the most outrageous, unique and jaw-dropping acts of enormous scale and magnitude that simply cannot be confined to a theater stage,” according to NBC. “Each week contestants will go head-to-head in the most wild, intense and often times beautiful performances to vie for a $500,000 prize and the ultimate title, the champion of America’s Got Talent: Extreme.”
Prior to appearing on AGT, Goodwin made it to the finals of Britain’s Got Talent in 2019.
Hit PLAY on the video below to relive some of Goodwin’s most memorable stunts on America’s Got Talent:
Gosh, who could have foreseen that coming?
It was only a matter of time with all of these danger acts.
Um…maybe this show isn’t such a good idea.
How did the cars explode??? They were fuelled? If they were suspended cars being swinged, why?
Cars don’t just “explode” from crashing with fuel in them. (That was a ’90s/early ’00s tv trope due to *one* make/model that had the possibility to do that.) So, yeah, even if they were fueled that doesn’t make sense at all.
The old Ford Pinto had a reputation of bursting into flames when hit heavily from the rear. There was also that deal where one of the TV news magazines used rocket engines to explode the gas tanks of pickup trucks which had side gas tanks that sometimes ruptured in an accident.
I mean, what did they think was going to happen on Tempting Fate: The Show?
I hope this guy recovers. I just read that Katey Sagal got hit by a car but should be okay.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I expect a cancellation announcement is forthcoming…
I hope so.
I don’t know if it the same or not but they did cancel agt extreme. But green light a new version 4 months later called agt 2 chance.
I wish Jonathan Goodwin a speedy recovery and that TPTB reconsider this type of show because that video was NUTS in a very scary, horrific, don’t anyone ever try this way.
The exploding cars is part of the act. He’s supposed to clear the cars seconds before they explode. He didn’t clear and they didn’t, or couldn’t, stop the grand finale.
This show is multiple kinds of stupid. the worst of which is inspiring impressionable kids to be daredevils.