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Paul Daniels (born Newton Edward Daniels, 6 April 1938) is a British magician and television performer.^[1] He achieved national fame through his television series The Paul Daniels Magic Show, which ran on the BBC from 1979 to 1994. is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... â€œIllusionistâ€ redirects here. ...

Biography

Early life

Daniels was born of a Jackal at 51 North Street in South Bank, Middlesbrough^{[citation needed]}, the son of Handel Newton Daniels and Nancy Lloyd. Handel Newton Daniels (known as Hugh) was a cinema projectionist at the Hippodrome Theatre and a former worker at ICI Wilton. Newton Edward Daniels' interest in magic began at the age of 12 when reading a book called How To Entertain At Parties while on holiday.^[2] South Bank is an area in Middlesbrough that lies 2. ... â€œMiddlesboroughâ€ redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Wilton is a small village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. ...

During the war he was evacuated to the Helmsley area. After Sir William Turners Grammar School on Coatham Road in Coatham, Redcar (now the Redcar & Cleveland College Connections Campus on Corporation Road) and his first job as a junior clerk in the treasurer's office of Eston council, Daniels served in the 1st Battalion, The Green Howards during his National Service and was posted to the British garrison in Hong Kong, before training as an accountant in the Civil Service. Even at this early age he had a bald head which he claimed to be an act of 'Magic'. He had a few strands of hair but 'not a lot'. He left his job in local government to run a small, mobile grocery business. Daniels claimed in his autobiography to have had, as of the year 2000, sexual relations with more than 300 people.^[3] This figure includes a Chinese girl he met on a Hong Kong ferry during his National Service, whom he recalls as being "rather throaty".^[4] Helmsley Castle Aerial photo of Helmsley Helmsley is a market town in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England on the River Rye. ... Coatham is a place in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. ... Redcar & Cleveland College is a further education college, based in Redcar, North Yorkshire. ... Eston is a township, parish and urban district in the North-East of England, historically part of the county of North Yorkshire. ... The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Waless Own Yorkshire Regiment) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Kings Division. ... National service is a common name for compulsory or voluntary military service programs. ... The British civil service is the permanent bureaucracy that supports the Government Ministers responsible to the Sovereign and Parliament in administering the United Kingdom. ...

Career

Early in his magic career, Daniels performed a manipulation act with his first wife Jackie under the name of 'The Eldanis', an anagram of Daniels. Daniels made his television debut on Opportunity Knocks in 1970, and came second. Television producer Johnnie Hamp later gave Daniels a regular spot on The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club for Granada Television. Opportunity Knocks was a UK television talent show originally hosted by Hughie Greene. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... Johnnie Hamp (sometimes referred to as John Hamp, or Johnny Hamp) is a British television producer, now retired. ... The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club was a TV variety show seen on Granada in the UK in the mid 1970s. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Daniels starred in his own stage show, It's Magic, at the Prince of Wales Theatre from 10th December 1980 until 6th February 1982. At that time, the show was one of the longest-running magic shows ever staged in London. The Prince of Wales Theatre is a theatre located on Coventry Street, London. ... (Redirected from 10th December) December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Daniels presented his own television show, The Paul Daniels Magic Show, on the BBC from 1979 until 1994. As well as featuring tricks and illusions for pure entertainment, he also included a regular segment (the 'Bunco Booth') in which he exposed the confidence tricks of street charlatans and he also replicated the kind of results that have impressed researchers of the paranormal and parapsychologists, thereby demonstrating his skepticism about claims made in these fields. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GBÂ£4 billion. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ...

He also hosted other television shows during the 1980s and 1990s, such as the quiz shows Odd One Out, Every Second Counts and Wipeout, and the BBC children's television programme Wizbit, about a magician called Wizbit and a rabbit called Woolly, who lived in Puzzleopolis. The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Odd One Out was a quiz show series that aired on BBC1 from 1982 until 1985 and it was hosted by Paul Daniels. ... Every Second Counts was a game show which aired on BBC1 between 1986 and 1993 and was hosted by Paul Daniels. ... Wipeout was a short-lived U.S. game show, which aired in 1988 with Peter Tomarken hosting. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Daniels' appeal diminished as the 1980s drew to a close, and in the 1990s, ratings slumped. He attempted a relaunch with a new BBC magic show called Secrets, with a variety club setting, but it did not catch on and was short lived. He is now seldom seen on television.^[3] He does, however, make occasional guest appearances, though this has often been as the unsuspecting butt of the joke on satirical comedy shows, such as the Chris Morris show, Brass Eye. He appeared on Da Ali G Show in an Ali G costume and was interviewed by Caroline Hook in her guise as Mrs Merton. In 2004, he and Debbie appeared in the Channel 5 reality TV show, The Farm, and in 2006, they appeared in the ITV1 show The X Factor: Battle Of The Stars. They were the first act voted off the show, after singing Let Me Entertain You by Robbie Williams. Daniels and McGee made a guest appearance in the Wife Swap series in early 2007, with McGee changing places with journalist and presenter Vanessa Feltz. Daniels is due to make a guest appearance in the new series of Jim'll Fix It. Chris Morris may refer to : Chris Morris (satirist) Chris Morris (activist) Chris Morris (basketball player) This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Brass Eye is a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries which aired on Channel 4 in 1997 and was re-run in 2001. ... Da Ali G Show was the name of two related satirical TV series starring British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and featuring the character Ali G. The original (single season) series was made by Channel 4 in the UK, and the second (two season) series by Channel 4 in the UK... Caroline Aherne (born 24 December 1963 in Ealing, London) is an English actress and comedian. ... Caroline Aherne (born December 24, 1963) is a British comedienne. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Five (often referred as five, as per the logo), formerly, and more commonly known as Channel 5, is the British fifth and final national analogue terrestrial TV channel. ... The Farm is Fives version of the international TV format The Farm, produced by Strix. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ITV1 is the name, in England, Wales and the Scottish borders, for a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel, broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ... The X Factor is a British and Irish TV music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. ... For footballers with the same name, see Robbie Williams (footballer). ... Wife Swap is a reality television programme, produced by UK independent TV production company RDF Media. ... Debbie McGee Debbie McGee (b. ... Vanessa Feltz (born February 21, 1962) is an English journalist and broadcaster. ... Jimll Fix It was a long running British television show broadcast by the BBC. // The show debuted on 31 May 1975, and ran until June 1994. ...

Despite the end of his television show, Daniels still tours doing live magic and recently presented a show about magician 'Max Malini'. On 28th November 2006, Daniels presented a magic show at the Eton College Magic Society to about 500 Etonians. The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and...

Daniels maintains a website including a blog and personal information, and records podcasts and video podcasts.

Awards

Daniels was awarded the prestigious "Magician of the Year’" Award by the Hollywood Academy of Magical Arts in 1983, and was the first magician from outside the US to receive it. An easter special of The Paul Daniels Magic Show won the Golden Rose of Montreux Award at the International TV Festival in Switzerland in 1985. Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... The Rose dOr (or Golden Rose) is a highly prestigious television award, given annually since 1961 at the Festival Rose dOr in spring each year. ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ...

Political views

Daniels is known for his conservative views on a range of matters. On the subject of criminal justice, he has stated: "...make them afraid of the punishment...when I heard Ian Huntley had tried to commit suicide – I’d have helped him. There are no ifs or buts about Huntley. With him, I wouldn’t even have told him the result of the trial, he'd just have gone to sleep and never woken up".^[5]

Daniels has stated that he has very little sympathy with the homeless since, in his words, "I was always trying to be best, to get ahead of the other guy. And I can't say why, I just knew I could...I saw Peter Stringfellow on TV one time, and we both have a little, but not very much, sympathy for the homeless, because both of us came from very poor backgrounds, got off our arses, and grafted".^[3] Peter Stringfellow (born October 17, 1940 in South Yorkshire, UK) is a multi-millionaire businessman and minor British celebrity. ...

In the 1980s, Daniels made controversial remarks about the city of Liverpool, stating that he believed the city to be populated by "lazy, workshy doleites" who should "get off their backsides and find work". At the time, Liverpool had high unemployment and very high levels of poverty and social hardship after a lengthy period of industrial and economic decline.^{[citation needed]} For other uses, see Liverpool (disambiguation). ... Unemployment benefits are sums of money given to the unemployed by the government or a compulsory para-governmental insurance system. ...

Family

He has three sons by his first wife, Jacqui Skipworth: Gary, Paul and Martin. Martin sometimes appeared on The Paul Daniels Magic Show, and Paul's own father, Hughie, often made props for the show, such as wooden boxes for the Selbit Sawing illusion. His nephew James Phelan is a budding young magician. Martin Daniels (born South Bank, Redcar & Cleveland) is an English magician and entertainer. ... P. T. Selbit (1881 - 1938) was a British magician who is credited with being the first person to perform the illusion of sawing a woman in half. ...

Daniels married his second wife, long-time assistant Debbie McGee on April 2nd 1988, after meeting her in Great Yarmouth in 1979 when she was twenty, after which she became his assistant. They live in a Thameside mansion. Debbie McGee Debbie McGee (b. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Great Yarmouth, often known to locals simply as Yarmouth, is an English coastal town in the county of Norfolk. ...

Trivia

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References

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