The Trickstars

A professional dog trainer with almost two decades of experience, Lucy Heath first found fame when she reached the final of Britain's Got Talent in 2016, with her little companion, Trip Hazard. Lucy has since gone on to amass a huge following on TikTok and in 2024, returned to Britain's Got Talent with her team of five dogs, once again reaching the finals, as The Trickstars.

A member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, Lucy only uses kind, reward based training methods.

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

From 2014 she 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, for the first time in 2016, with Trip, Lucy was able to change her life and focus entirely on her passion for training and performing with her own dogs and teaching others how to train tricks and Heelwork to Music.

Lucy's biggest passion is her dog display team work. She loves giving entertaining and educational performances all over the UK with her own dogs, getting the audience engaged and involved.

Specialising in Heelwork to Music – Lucy has 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 3 different dogs. She is also a qualified Heelwork to Music judge.

In 2023 she placed 2nd in the Crufts Freestyle Final with Trip Hazard and 3rd in the Crufts Heelwork to Music Final with Foxy. Both dogs 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 Lucy placed 3rd in the Crufts Freestyle final with Trip Hazard and 2nd in the Crufts Heelwork to Music final with Foxy.

Away from performing Lucy also works as an animal trainer and handler for film and television. She has worked on the We Buy Any Car advert with Foxy, Hilton Hotel advert where her dog Dizzy worked with Paris Hilton, the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, training and handling Queen Charlotte’s Pomeranians in series 1, 2 and 3, movie The Electrical Life of Louis Wain with Benedict Cumberbatch and the Netflix series The Hidden Lives of Our Pets. Trip was in an episode of Silent Witness, running away from his owner and finding a dead body in the Thames!

As well as training and handling animals behind the scenes, Lucy and her dogs 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 and Blue Peter.

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

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