Haunting video of tragic cheerleader Emily Gold performing on America's Got Talent READ MORE: America's Got Talent cheerleader leaps to her death By Melissa Koenig For Dailymail.Com Published: 23:45, 16 September 2024 | Updated: 00:06, 17 September 2024 e-mail View comments Haunting videos show cheerleader Emily Gold dancing her heart out on America's Got Talent just months before she tragically died. The 17 year old was filmed break dancing along with the rest of the Los Osos High School Dance Team in a high-energy performance on the competition show in late May - blowing the judges away.
Simon Cowell even called the team's performance 'absolutely brilliant.' 'I think what I just saw is everything a grade school should be doing, which is encouraging talent, friendship, and it reminded me of when I used to watch those High School Musical movies, thinking, "Everybody should go to a school like that" because it's fun,"' he told the performers. The team would go on to perform another impressive routine to Fergalicious at the quarterfinals last month, bu t on Friday, Gold was found dead under a bridge in an apparent suicide on the eastbound 210 Highway in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
Emily Gold, 17, tragically died on Friday - just one month after her dance team was eliminated from America's Got Talent The Los Osos High School dance team performed a high-energy audition on the show in late May In one of her final Instagram posts, Gold wrote that performing on America's Got Talen.