Britain’s Got Talent 2019 returned this evening with hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly who introduced another set of talent-packed auditions. One performer, 28-year-old magician Ben Hart, stunned the entire auditorium with an electrifying magic trick. Stunning the audience, he performed a number of impressive tricks including transforming a piece of paper into an egg using a […]
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Ricky Jay, Famed Character Actor and Master Magician, Has Died at 72
Ricky Jay is one of those actors who you’d see popping up in the likes of The Prestige, Mystery Men and Boogie Nights, not a household name, but surely one of those people who made audience members go, “Hey, it’s that guy.” But outside of his career on film and television, Ricky Jay was a […]
Magician Ricky Jay Dead at 70
Master magician Ricky Jay, whose decades-long career included guest roles on Deadwood and The Simpsons, has died at the age of 70. The news was confirmed by his manager, Winston Simone, who told Variety that his client died of natural causes. “He was one of a kind,” Simone said. “We will never see the likes of him […]
Staff Picks: ‘Chewing Gum,’ ‘The Lost City of Z,’ ‘The Mad Magician’
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers recommend the cultural object or experience they’ve enjoyed most in the past seven days. Scroll through for our picks below. Chewing Gum Michaela Coel’s […]
Britain’s Got Talent 2017: Show bosses SHUT DOWN claims Harry Potter magician stole trick
The eight-year-old, who has been hailed as the real life Hermione Granger from Harry Potter, wowed the judging panel after performing a series of magic tricks that left them all speechless. However, not everyone was impressed with Issy including fellow magician Carl Leek – known by his stage name The Starman – who claimed she […]