Episode 2 The Magicians

Acts last week, Barry & Stuart, Latimer and Pete ferment teamed up

with celebrity apprentices to bring the drama, comedy and mind blowing

illusions. Pete and Keith lost the view it vote and had to India the

fiery forfeit. That might have been my first fiery forfeit but it will

definitely be my last. Tonight, three new celebrities have one aim,

to win your vote. My life is on the line. Everyone is feeling the

pressure. I always win, I am not here to finish second. Prepare for

mind-bending acts of madness and high-pressure lives are illusions.

Who will triumph and he will have to face this week's dreaded four

fit? Prepare to be mesmerised. This Live from Shepperton Studios,

please welcome your host, Darren McMullen and The Magicians! Twisted

twisters Barry & Stuart, all the way from LA, world champion of

magic, Latimer. And all away from Middlesbrough, it is Pete Firman!

Hello, everybody, are you ready to have some fun?! Welcome to The

Magicians. Prepare to be bamboozled as we take you into this wonderful

world of magic. Each week, The Magicians will be joined by a

different celebrity apprentice and have to perform four eye-popping

magic tricks and attempt to win your vote and avoid tonight's death

defying forfeit. All that in a minute. But first, let's meet

tonight's celebrities. Joined in last week's winners, Barry & Stuart,

it is TV's Mr Nasty, it is Craig Revel Horwood!

Pairing up with Latimer it is the one, the only, Mr David Hasselhoff!

And with last week's loser, Pete Firman, she is out standing in her

field, it is Countryfile's Julia Bradbury. This is The Magicians

Good luck to everybody tonight. You are going to need it. They have

just four tricks in order to woo you guys at home and if that was

not hard enough, two of them are performed right here in the studio

live. The team with the lowest number of votes at the end of the

show will have to take on tonight's death defying forfeit and trust me,

it is not for the faint-hearted. Here is the moment just before we

went live when the celebrities found out what the forfeit is.

samurai sword is renowned for having the sharpest blade in the

world. In tonight's forfeit, the losing Act must walk barefooted up

a samurai sword ladder. Once at the top they will lie on a bed of

razor-sharp swords. A melon will be placed on their stomach and a

swordsman will attempt to slice it. Who will have to face the forfeit?

Who is for the job? -- who is for the chop?

That actually looks genuinely dangerous tonight. Good luck!

Rather them than me. Audience, are you ready? Yes! Are you ready? All

right, let the competition begin. They have got four tricks to try

and schmooze their way into your good books. Here is Latimer and

How is it going? Sorry I am late, just came in from the beach. My

name is David Hasselhoff. Some people know me as the Hoff. Need I

say more? It is incredibly exciting to be accepted into the secret

world of the magician. Working with David is literally like working

with a legend. We can take a card like this, bend it and change it

just like that. Jason is the best magician I have ever seen. We will

reunite you with your old friend. We could be doing the world's

biggest card trick. I will teach you how to read minds and how do

you feel about dressing up? If the hot cannot handle the pressure, who

can? Forfeits? No. Of does not do forfeits. You are crazy.

Guys, is it just me or are you a bit star-struck? That guy is a

living legend. David Hasselhoff! I grew up watching that show,

Baywatch. For his performance only. Amazing. And the show obviously

with the car, Knight Rider. The over-thirties probably remember

that. Are you ready to seek Dave do his thing? Yes! Picking off tonight,

totally live, put your hands You really know how to arrive at.

Nice outfit. I am been injure. I am We need a volunteer. How about you?

From the third rose. Over here. You, sir. Don't be scared. What is your

name? Paul. Let's give it up for Paul. Nice to meet you, Paul.

you. I'm going to be doing an illusion for one person, that is

you. How would you like my crate? Why have you got your initials.

Where am I? It is on the inside of This works a lot better with you

inside the box. You were doing well. -- you are doing well. You're doing

OK. We are trying to contain the powers of the Hoff. Paul, if you

stand on the step, that would be great. Just come right up. We will

use the one ring, two hands and one I'm going to show you how magic can

be if you remove one of your senses. When I ask you to close your eyes,

I want you to close your eyes but do not open them until I tell you.

If you cheat, the entire effect will be ruined. De think he should

play a long? Yes! He is a ring, Close your eyes. I want you to

imagine everything. I want you to match and this ring floating around,

shoot up in the air and land right back on to my head. Paul, a few

reach for it and touch you, if I crossed my arms over you would feel

it. Open Your eyes. I want you to do one thing, I am going to lock my

arms in this position. I want you to keep your eyes closed and make

sure my arms did not move. I want you to imagine one more time, have

the ring floater up in the air and in your imagination, I want you to

watch that ring float around the room 17 times. I will count them.

Just kidding, I will not do all of them! Paul, focus, focus. Grabbed

my wrist here. This is where it gets really tricky. Using a hand to

grab that ring, just pull on it. Tell them it is solid. It is solid.

Now, I want you to close your eyes. I want you to grab that ring. Is a

solid? With your eyes closed, grabbed my wrist again. I am going

to reach over and then grab this rain and lift it over your head. I

will waive it over my arm and wave it over your arm. I will tappets

once on the top, once on the bottom and link on your arm. You open your

better. I am going to gave flesh and bone three on. Are you ready?

Close your eyes. Here we go. You will feel it, you will feel a

What is going on?! What have you been doing in there? I am

How are you going to beat that, the halved in a box? He will be

difficult. I am a Bic -- I am a bit nervous. The reigning champions,

Barry & Stuart took the title last week. We are going to try and give

it our best. We have got a few nasty surprises planned for Craig.

That is what you want us to see. look forward to it. The tables have

turned. You are looking for other people's vote is now. Here they are,

Barry, Stuart and Craig. Barry! Stuart!

My name is Craig Revel Horwood. You may have seen me on Strictly Come

Dancing being rather judgmental. Last week was good. We won the

episode. But it is only the first show, anything can happen.

grandfather was an amazing magician and I am hoping I will help this

legacy continue, darling. You will be placed in a small container and

you will defy death. We are going to be in our favourite trick. We

will turn the laws of physics on its head and make sure you keep

yours. And a bit concerned for my health and safety. That represents

a new. Lovely. Will Craig be saved, of course. You can trust us.

chances of Craig surviving. We give him... One way round -- and wrong

We thought, had it gone wrong? thought it was the end. We thought,

So Craig, the grand illusion - we have been practising the trick we

call the swimming pool box escape. We tied you up, put you in a box.

You had half a minute to escape before the box fell into the

swimming pool. I loved that. practised and did really well. You

were so confident in your ability to do it, we decided to up the ante.

You're going to love it. The first thing we changed was the box. We're

going to use this car and lock you inside the boot. We have replaced

the swimming pool with this quarry. You are joking. Here's exactly

what's going to happen we're going to tie you up and bundle you into

the boot of the car just like this. The car will start rolling towards

the cliff's edge where it will tumble 100 foot into the water

below. The audience standing at the cliff right here - more adoring

fans will be down on below on to the pontoon. They'll see as you get

out of the boot and leap on to this Queen-sized mattress. We're going

to have a helicopter filming at all times. This is the best part - once

you have made your escape, the car which we have needlessly filled

with explosives will race down and career off the cliff edge.

From this moment on, this shot will not cut away.

Except this cut right here. This, show, however, will remain

continuous allowing you to see Craig make his escape in realtime.

Put your hands out. Know we practisinged with the ropes but

these are more impressive. sorry, too many changes, the

swimming pool becomes a quarry, the box becomes a car riddled with

explosive... We're going to change your blind fold into this bag.

We're going to take this gaffe that tape and tape together your legs,

Craig. This is important for two reasons - first, it's going to be

much more impressive than the ropes, and secondly, it will ensure Craig

doesn't try to dance while he's in there. We're taped up. Let's go get

you into this car boot - this way. Hop with us. That's it. Let's get

you in here. Get your feet inside there. We have been pretty mean to

Craig so far, so we're going to make your life a little bit easier,

Craig, by helping you out with something to get your gaffe that

tape off around your feet. We'll give you this plastic knife.

Stuart's going to put a brick on to the accelerator of the car he has a

rope attached to the gear stick. The moment pulls that rope, the car

will start moving to the cliff edge. It will move at a speed of around

about 15mph, giving Craig ten seconds to exit the car and leap on

to the mattress. If he doesn't make his escape, we have arranged party

in his honour. Ann Widdecombe has sent out the invites. Is he ready?

BANGING Left hand, right hand. On your toes,

Craig. Here comes the mattress. Here is the mattress. Jump. Jump!

EXPLOSION APPLAUSE

Of course, this is one shot - you know it's not like a trick of

camera or something, but when the car went over, your heart was

racing. You thought, what's going to happen, is he going to be OK?

You know he's supposed to be on that mattress. The car comes into

shot. There is no Craig. You're praying he's going to come out.

Then the car is going to be over the cliff. Before you know it,

explosion. Oh, my God. It's all gone horribly wrong! And then he's

up in the helicopter. You think, how did he get there? It was

fantastic. It was absolutely brilliant, enthralling. Speechless.

APPLAUSE That was absolutely amazing. Yeah.

Good that, wasn't it? Craig Revel- Horwood has fans.

LAUGHTER I had no idea. About four? Yeah,

there is about four there, to be fair, but fans, nonetheless. I

didn't want to bring this up - actually, I did. You lost last week.

Let's not use that word. It sounds so negative. Can we think of

something else? Losing the vote? Least popular. No. Maxine... This

week we're going to change it. You were the least popular. Confident

for this week? Yeah, confident. Watching that, they had cars,

cliffs, explosions. We've got a box of biscuits, so enjoy that. Let's

have a look and see what these guys have been conjuring up.

APPLAUSE I am Julia Bradbury, TV presenter,

explorer and tonight, wannabe magician. I don't know what

happened. We ended up doing the forfeit. Maybe the phone number was

wrong. So this week we have a little bit of Levitation, then we

have a little bit of animal magic - Countryfile, animals, I thought it

would be perfect. To top it all off, slicing and dicing. When I was a

little girl I always wanted to be the girl chopped in half by the

magician. The pressure is really on. Hassel Hoff, Craig Revel-Horwood,

big personalities, but I think Julia is going to be able to hold

her own. Loser. Here they are with their first trick of the evening,

playing with some live, close-up magic, Pete and Julia. Thank you.

Oh, oh that's nice. Thank you very much. Julia and I are going to need

some help from the audience, and I think she's over there -

Countryfile's very own Julia Bradbury. Thank you. The great

thing about being part of a magician show is you could get

picked to be a part of it - you look vulnerable - I mean lovely.

What's your name? Hannah. Give Hannah a round of applause. Get her

a mic. You stay there. You're going to do a bit of mind reading for us

now? Yes, yes. You see, you're a deceptive man. Yeah, that's my game.

You are. What I like about you, Pete. Don't push it. But powerful.

You have a strong mind. Let's just go with powerful. I would rather

that. Hiya, Hannah. This is for you, Julia. You can take those and

explain what we're doing here. have some lovely imagine biscuits

here. Pete Firman is going to do something very unusual, combine

mind reading with animals and a bit of drawing as well. Yes, yes, but I

am not very gifted in this department. I am not an artist,

have a GCSE. You're going to pick a biscuit, concentrate on it, and

I'll draw the animal. You do that I'll avert my pretty little eyes.

Pick a biscuit. Keep it to yourself. Keep it. Done that Hannah? Uh-huh.

To do this, I'm going to have to go into that trance. Hang on. Oh, I'm

in a trance! A deep, deep trance! LAUGHTER

Two minutes. I am going to draw it, please concentrate. That's great

you just keep concentrating on that animal. I am going to pick up on

your vibrations. Good vibrations. What I am going to do is show the

audience the animal first so I can't change my mind. This is the

animal I was receiving - please, please. It was done in haste - the

animal I was receiving. What's the animal? A camel. You know what?

That really is remarkable because I got a camel - I mean, look at that

- wow! Well done. I'm just going to pinch myself - no, that is really

happening. It could just be beginner's luck, Hannah. So dig in

there, select another animal. Concentrate. Keep it to yourself.

I'm going to draw a completely different drawing. Going into a

trance! A deep, deep - further and further this time! A thousand

fathoms, I am all the way at the bottom. I am there!

LAUGHTER In a trance, going the draw the

animal in pants! Keep concentrating. I am going to show the audience

before I show you. So don't give anything away. This is the animal

that I - LAUGHTER

Please! This is the imagine I was receiving. Let's get confirmation.

The animal, please. A rhino. Really? That's - it's a rhino.

is a rhino. Wow! Wow! Hey, I tell you what, it's a gift, but I have

kept the receipt, so it's all right. Third time is a charm. I am going

to keep doing this until you like it. I really am. Could you please

concentrate this time. One more animal. Take your pick. Take your

pick. Really, it's going to work this time. Concentrate on the

animal. Yeah. I don't need to do the trance thing. I am already

there. LAUGHTER

Drawing the animal, right, gallery styley - going to show the audience

first. Please! This is serious. LAUGHTER

In a loud voice, Hanna, what was the animal you were thinking of?

Aer.After. A what? What?Er.After. Really? Do they do those in that?

Ooh awkward. Missed a few details because I forgot the spots. Got to

put the spots on like that this is aer.After with a rare affliction.

We don't laugh at afflictions here. I think I can fix it with magic,

though. APPLAUSE

This is just a drawing. There are no moving parts.

APPLAUSE Well done. Well done. You did it.

APPLAUSE Have a little hug there. He should

have a little box to stand on. With all that done and dusted all of our

magicians have done their first trick, which could only mean one

thing - the phone lines are now open, so if you want to save your

favourite celebrity and magician from the forfeit, pick up the phone.

It's only going face to face with a Samurai warrior, no biggie. The

Full terms and conditions can be found at bbc.co.uk/magicians. Now,

remember, they've got three more tricks to perform before we reveal

who is safe and who will take on the death-defying forfeit. Yes. It

is ooh! Next up with their street magic in Bristol, we have the

lovely Barry and Stuart and Craig. Stand by. Head first. As quickly as

you can, no air out. That's it. That's excellent. Get in. Oh,

darling! New York arms. That's the one, yes. All the way down. Doing

it with style now, Craig. Samba, pointy toes - that's it.

APPLAUSE There we go, Craig Revel-Horwood

sealed in a balloon for your viewing pleasure. We're going to do

a trick now. We need someone heeps. Could you take out your purse -

what is your name? Sophie. Take out your licence or a bank card. It has

to be a quick trick, otherwise, he will suffocate. We have a driver's

licence. A driver's licence. would know it if you saw it again.

Yes. Looks nothing like you, but this should work nonetheless. We're

going to take it and place it against the wall of the balloon

right here. I am going to place my Here we go, Craig, are you ready?

am ready. I am through. Craig, can you reach up? This is the hardest

bit. Get that corner without tearing the balloon. My hands are

shaking. Get it through. Sophie, come forward. Have a look. Is that

your driver's licence in there? Yeah. That's your picture? Yeah.

That's a lovely picture. We got it in there the hard way. Let's get it

out the easy way. A big round of applause for Craig Revel-Horwood.

APPLAUSE I don't know how it happened.

was amazing. It just literally went through. You couldn't see how it

went through, but it just did. Unbelievable. Mind-blowing.

little turn. Down you go. Oh, That was brilliant, did you like

that? Amazing stuff. Next up, more live magic in the studio. With

their Live Grand Illusion, it is Pete and Gillian! Tired of cuts and

bruises at work? Using plaster as Willie nearly? The new needed this.

How does it work? It is very simple. You spray on part of your body that

he needs to protect. It is a squirt that prevents her at. It even

smells like me. Yes, burnt hair. Let's see how this stainless-steel

fork works. We recommend a full- body treatment to maximise its

effectiveness. Why do I need it? For protection. Protection against

what? An accident in a TV studio with a maximum -- massive

industrial fan. This fan blade is made of solid steel. It slices, it

dices, it turns at 3,000 revolutions per second. Anything

that gets in its wake will be chopped off. Just ask my brother,

Geraldine! Julia, you look a bit afraid. This is not what you

There is something for you to perch on. Perch? Yes, you can sit down.

Just give it a whack, Geraldine. There you go, slick. I know we

didn't do this in rehearsals but I didn't want to alarm you. You look

so scared! I will show you how it works. You might have to kick off

your shoes. I need you to set up here. These are real? Yes, sit on

there. Because of the spray, Julia will be completely protected from

the fan. But should she need some extra protection, we have this

shield. That is kind. Note, that is to protect me. This soup cost a

fortune. 3, 2, 1, go through, Julia. Yes! Out! She has passed the first

test. Do you think you can go all the way through? No way! Seriously.

3, 2, one. Arm through, first. Put Did you use spray my legs? I cannot

remember. I will give you another blast. Ladies and gentlemen, Julia

Bradbury! A little squirt really Pete Firman and Julia Bradbury,

everybody! If you do happen to have an over sized industrial fan at

home, don't do that. It is dangerous. David, alters the

weirdest thing you have got at home? I have something in my home

which no one else in the world has. One of my co-stars from my shows.

Is that where Pamela has been? Pamela! She has not been on TV.

Pamela. You are with the world champion of magic who came second

last week. What happened? I think the magic last week was really

strong but I felt that we needed to make a connection with the

audiences at home so in a little bit, I want you to grab four cards

and give them to each person in the room. We will be doing some magic

for millions of people at the exact same time. We will look forward to

it. Before that, this is the Location Grand Illusion, give it up

Thank you! Thank you so much. I am Jason Latimer. First of all, I want

to say thank you so much for coming today. We will be doing something

which involves the entire group, a demonstration of pure randomness.

We will try to spell a word. I did bring a friend to help me. I think

you may know him. Ladies and gentlemen, are a big round of

applause for Mr David Hasselhoff! I just found these girls on the

beach. Hello, folks. We are going to take two sets her of alphabets

so we have 52 shirts of different letters. I'm going to throw them

into the audience. Try and catch them with your hands and not your

face. It never works. These will all come together in an amazing

trick. The chances of finding the letter you are looking for would be

two out of 52. The chances of finding Multiple letters would be

two out of 52 times 51 and so forth. The chances of spelling of words is

literally in the millions but we are adding another level. We have

got a box of ping-pong balls here. David will be marking four of the

ping-pong balls with a number. We will mix them up and throw them

into the audience. If you have a T- shirt, make sure you get a ping-

52 letters. Four % chance of catching a ping-pong ball. The

chance of spelling anything is literally in the billions. And you

are saying what you can predict what the word is going to be.

thought I could give it a shot. you have a ping-pong ball with a

number one, step forward. Great, perfect. Perfect. Person with a

number two. No. 3. It is all blondes, I love this show. How do

you do this? A billion to one. than that. It is a huge number. In

fact, I have an idea of what the word will be, Hoff. You are saying

that this word will be Hoff. Everybody else, put your T-shirts

on. Make sure you have a random at the. The different T-shirts are

different letters. We have all the different letters of the alphabet.

Are you ready, Hoff? Yes, you are saying the word is going to be Hoff

and I am going to go with the billion that is wrong because I

have a different word. First letter, if you would. What is it? It is OK.

You are wrong. Nice and big. I was right. I can see that. Both of you

You have got to give him a hand, he did get a word. That is not a word.

It is a name. I predicted that. You want to see my prediction? Yes.

want to see my prediction? Ladies, I but he beat! Let me show you my

Check it out, Michael! It was absolutely unbelievable. No idea,

Great trick, great car. That brings us to the halfway mark. Plenty more

to come. If you want to save your favourite from the chopping block,

Calls cost 15 p from a BT landline. Mobiles will cost considerably more.

Is get the bill pair's permission. It is time for their spectacular

live close-up magic trick. Please welcome the delightful Barry &

Stuart and Craig. Thank you. We are also used to seeing Craig Revel

Horwood in the light entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing but he

is working with us this week. We thought it would be fitting if he

did something dark and twisted. we are going to do something really

weird which we call Satan's eyeballs. Please welcome, dressed

as the devil himself, Craig Revel Stop, that is wrong. That is not

say to him, that is a pirate. Everything you two do his dark,

twisted and dangerous and I thought it would be really good to do that

wonderful trick, the pirate card trick. Note, we haven't rehearsed

and we do not have the eye patches. That is where you are wrong,

darling. I found some backstage. I have a lovely little one for myself.

We have not got the Paraic deck of cards the there. That is where you

are wrong again. -- the pirate's deck of cards.

I have got a sore leg. Perfect for a pirate. Get on with it. I hate

doing this. The first thing we have to do is find ourself a shipmate.

You there, my hearty. I have a pirate's deck of cards and they all

different. I'm going to shuffle the cards and I will get you to stop me

shuffling. Is that way you want me to stop? Excellent. It is important

that you see what this card is but What happens next is the cards are

thrown into the air. You forgot the shuffling. You cannot miss the

shuffle, that is the best thing. The pirate shuffle is my favourite

and the music is brilliant. Look at Barry & Stuart, they are

really enjoying themselves at smacked this is the lowest point of

my career. He is loving it. I am dying inside. Oh, no, here comes

Wright, the cards have now been Paraic shuffled. Stuart! Go and get

the cards close I am going to keep half of the cards and I will get

the other half. You could say it is all hands on deck. I have the

pirate sword. Stuart will see your chosen card and he will stab it

with his sword. Are we ready? Drum roll! 3, 2, one. Babbitt, Stuart!

have a card! Wait the. What was the card you selected? The four of

APPLAUSE Fabulous, darling. Now, Craig has

inspired you like he has me to try your hand at magic as well, you can

head to our website. They even let me have a go, so it must be easy.

It's now time to get into some more street magic, here is Latimer and

Hey, how you doing? How is it going? Hi! Would you like to see a

demonstration of the art of mind reading? Absolutely. All right. Out

of this deck of cards, we have a lot of different values to go for.

If you would, pull out any one card you like. OK. And if you would pull

out any one card you like. Sure you want that one? Yeah. Great. Hold it

close to you so we don't see what it is. Read their minds. See if you

can guess her card. OK. Let's see - close your eyes. Can you see the

card, because I am going to write your card on this piece of paper.

All right. Now, would you be amazed if your card was written on this

piece of paper? Indeed, yeah. right. Your card is written on this

piece of paper. I have written "your card"... Genius. I can't do

it. I couldn't... What are you doing? What are you doing? I'll add

a little magic to that. Hold on a second. Ooh, that's hot. What was

your card? King of clubs. King of It says... The King of clubs!

did it! Woo! She's got another card. I want to get this one right. OK.

Just think of the card. Think of the card. Come on, man. Think. Just

can't do it. I can't do it! I can't figure... You have been working

hard on this all week. I can't figure it out, man. I can't. I

can't do it. I am not taking anymore chances. I have no more

fingers. Sorry, man. That didn't work out. It's OK. Just really

quick, what was your club? Two of hearts. Two of hearts? I got it

right. I wrote two of hearts on there. It's in there - the two of

hearts - it's in there. You know, I'm telling you - I swear to you,

this two of hearts is in there. There is probably no way I can show

you here. Put the pieces back together. Put the pieces back

together? OK. I'll put them back together. Oh, wait a second - oh!

Well, there it is. Two of hearts. You got it!

APPLAUSE Two of hearts, baby. Yeah! It's

Next up, it's the man who gargled molten metal as last week's loser.

He'll be cut up if he looses again, probably quite literally. With

their Grand Illusion, it's Pete and Julia. I'll tell you what, Julia,

it wasn't fun last week. I had to do the forfeit. They had me eating

fire of I was gargling molten metal. It was awful. I saw it. Were you

hurt? I burnt my hands. It's murder shaking my maracas. Are you a

musician? What do you think I am wearing this for? This is the

outfit. Hi, everyone. Hello, hello, hello.

I am Julia. This is Pete. He's our magical musician. That's right.

Apparently, he's the 18th one-man band in Middlebrough. Seriously.

What we've got here, Pete, this is a book of your favourite tunes. You

can play every tune in here? one you like. More than 300 I can

see. Yeah. Right. I need a little bit of help. I have a feminine

intuition a woman might be good at this challenge. You like women?

Yeah. You heard. This woman, please come forward. What's your name?

Nice to meet you, Jo. Grab hold of this book. You can see all the

songs are different. The contents have every song. If you could

choose one of those... Keep one in your mind. Choose one. Don't say it

out loud. Here's the idea. Concentrate on the song, and I'm

going to try and play it for you. Hey? Yes! Was that it? No, I don't

think so. What song were you thinking of? I was thinking of When

the Saints Go Marching in. I was playing that. Couldn't you hear?

That's my favourite song - so much so, I have had it printed on my

drum. Hey! Taking it a step further - but not with you - you're clearly

tone deaf. Get yourself back there. You can have the book. Oh, thank

you. Give her a hand. Give her a hand. Would you - the lady with the

red hair - would you come and help us with this second thing, would

that be all right? What's your name? Holly. Hi. We're not going to

use the book for this. We'll use the thing - the doo-dah. The thing.

Not the book, something more impressive. I think you're going to

like this. We have a magic trumpet. Coronet. No thanks. I don't like

ice cream. This is something for you to hold on to. Let's move up to

the band stand. While we're doing that, could everybody move around

the bandstand. You're going to hold hands. Make sure you can all link

up - some around the front and the back. Lovely. We're going to move

to the middle. Very good. Get yourselves into position. Holly,

what we need you to do is think of a song. This can be any song at all.

What I want you to do is put the trumpet to your lips - the corn it

to your lips. Imagine you're playing the song you have in mind.

Playing it - beautiful, gorgeous. Have you done that? Yeah. Fantastic.

I'll put this on to the floor of the bandstand. You want me to do

it? I can't bend down. Let's come out of the band stand, OK? Mind

that, Holly. He's a lethal weapon. Lethal! We have some curtains.

Could we drop the your tains, please, all the way. You just keep

concentrating on the piece of music you imagined playing with the

trumpet. Coronet. Yeah. Everybody, listen. Listen out for some sounds.

TRUM, te, Hear that? It's all gone a bit quiet.

MUSIC Did that sound like the song? Not

very - anything? Yeah, it sounds like it, yes. That's my song.

That's your song? Are you sure? What was it? Lady Gaga, Romance.

MUSIC When the band appeared, I was

amazed. No idea how they got in this It was all the way around no,

idea how they got in. I didn't think it would happen. When they

started playing my tune, I was like, what, really? I have no idea how

the band got there. It was amazing. MUSIC

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bbc.co.uk/magicians. Everyone looking very nervous backstage. We

all know why. The celebrities could be sushi very soon if they lose.

Next up, get ready to play along at home. We're ready here in the

studio. It's live, close-up magic and their last chance to impress

you with magic. It's Latimer and the Hoff. Thank you. Everyone in

the audience, this is your time to pull out those four cards we

provided you with. Everybody at home, make sure everybody has four

cards - it doesn't matter what type of cards or what faces they are, as

long as they're playing cards and face down in your hand. Place your

other hand on top of them. I am going to go over a few moves to

make sure everybody is clear on what we need to do. This is a

mathematical trick with an element of chance no-one can predict unless

you're David Hasselhoff. Hoff! that in mind, the first one is to

take the top card and to turn - no. Keep your hands together. Take the

first one, turn it over, place it back on top. That's the first move

I would ask you to do. The second would be to take the top two cards

together, turn them over and place them back on top. They're going to

be different cards that are face up and down after we make a bunch of

choice, but as long as you grab them together, turn them over and

place them back on top, everything would be great. The last move is to

cut the cards. That means take as many cards as you want from the top

and put them back on the bottom. You can take as many cards as you

like as long as you take them from the top and move them to the bottom.

Don't push them together or flip the cards over as you do that.

Everybody clear? Great. With the cards all face down - make sure

they're face down at the beginning. Shuffle all the cards face down,

OK? Square them together, place them in your hand, ready to go.

You have them in your hand. Take them with your other hand, turn

them around and look at the bottom card. Now, remember that card. That

is your card at home and in the audience. Got it in your heads? Now

turn the cards over and place them back in your hand. OK. Here we go.

Take the top card, place it directly to the bottom of the

packet. Take the next top card. Turn it over and place it back on

top. Now cut as many cards as you like from the top and put them

directly to the bottom. Now, take the top two cards together, turn

them over together and place them back on top. And cut the cards as

deep as you like. Now take the top two cards together, turn them over,

place them back on top and cut the cards as deep as you'd like. Now

take your index finger and place it choices. You have different choices.

You could have cut everywhere. Now using the powers of the Hoff, we'll

find that card. "hoff, Hoff, Hoff!" Take the top card, turn it over and

put it underneath the other cards. Take the next top card. Do not turn

it over and put it on the bottom of the other cards (Mystical voice)

Take the next top card, turn it over and put it on the top. Hoff is

done. LAUGHTER

Spread out those cards. There will be one card facing the opposite

direction than the other cards. Pull out that card. If that's your

card at home or in the audience, stand up.

APPLAUSE Whoa, yeah, baby! Thank you. That's

a world record, and you're all a part of it. Woo-hoo! I did it! I'm

magic! I'm magic. That was amazing. That is well done. Very well done,

and this one better be pretty special too if they want to avoid

the chop. It's street magic time with Pete and Julia.

It's busy. Yeah. Hello. Sorry. I'm going to be really rude. Can I

steal one of you? Come on. Promise you, it will be fine.

What's your name? Robin. You're happy to be our victim - I mean

volunteer? Yeah. Do a bit of furniture removal. He taught me

this magic. What I want you to do is push against my hands, push,

push, really, really do that. can try this yourself at home. All

you need is a wall or door frame to push against. If you don't, where

are you watching this? Relax. Let your arm go down. Let your arm go

down, and I think you'll feel quite naturally it's just going to start

to rise. You should try that. It's brilliant. You didn't just put your

arm back up, did you? No, it's really light. It feels like it's

floating like a balloon? Yeah. Magic fingers! I taught you well.

You did, ObiWan Kenobi. I'll use a few more people to help. Can you

come around the back? Would that be all right? You're close. Just come

around the back here. Fantastic. Just get yourself around here -

absolutely fantastic. That's great. I am going to pick you up, Robin.

Is that all right? Good thing she's petite. Guys, if you could help me

- Julia, you support her head. Excellent. You just grab below her

knees. Got you, Robin. It's OK. don't have to hold on to me. We

have you. Put your hands on your chest. OK. Imagine all your muscles

in your body tensing up. Do that now and relax. Imagine yourself

getting lighter and lighter. That's excellent, really good. If you

could just sort of peel away slowly - that's great, excellent. And if

you could do the same thing, I've got you. I won't let you go.

I'm just going to let this arm leave and this as well. If you

could slowly let go... No, no, no, no. It's all right. It's OK.

Remember the feeling of your arm. Hold on. There we go. There we go.

I can actually push down on your body. Do you feel all right?

feels a bit weird. I'll just put your upright. You were absolutely

sensational. Feel all right? A bit lightheaded? No, I am OK. Giveler a

I'm having a light ale! Suddenly she was able to float in the air

and there was no support whatsoever. I don't know how he did it. I don't

have to explain it. I have never seen that before in my life.

APPLAUSE So, we have come to the final performance of the night.

The phone lines will close in five minutes, just after the Live Grand

Illusion. Please give it up for the amazing Barry, the wonderful Stuart

and Craig. Thank you. The last -- for the last

illusion of the evening, we thought we were do something dangerous,

something which has killed 12 men. Your magic is dangerous so I

decided to make it more fun. I thought if the trip went well we

could blow on these wonderful party Blair was. Like a celebration at

the end? Yes. I can live with that. Ladies and Gentlemen, marvel at the

colossal which is the French That killed 12 men? How my supposed

to get my head inside that? He is not your head that is going in

there. It is the small version of the full-size one which we will get

to in a minute. Let's explain what is going to happen. Imagine my

finger is Craig Revel Horwood. Let me make a couple of adjustments

first. Strike a pose. A perfect likeness! Now it is perfect.

Fabulous, darling! So I place my head in the guillotine. The short

blade should penetrate through the finger, hopefully without harm. I

will release it after three. Three, two, one. There we go. Completely

unharmed! The Blades goes through my neck, I take an enormous bow,

darling and we have to celebrate on -- by blowing on our part to blows.

I am ready to go. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Madame

guillotine! This is the one that killed 12 men. Let me get you into

the stocks. I am concerned about a safety device. Craig, but we are

live. Remember the secret safety button. Press at once, it is safe,

press it again, dangerous. I will say Barry, are you ready? He will

say... Yes, all set. The new press the button and make it safe.

would rather it was safe from the start. This razor-sharp but Blade

is very sharp and very dangerous. Despite that, it should pass

straight through Craig's neck without harm. Let me ready the

Blades. Are you set? Ready. Let's count down from three. 3, 2,...

stop, stop, stop! I forgot my party... Party blower! How could

you forget the party blower? Let me place that in between your lips

there. Are you ready? All set, Barry & Stuart with Craig,

everybody! What has it been like working with Craig this week?

has done all right. How was the neck? I swallowed a party blower,

darling. A stitch in time, they say. How did you find everything

tonight? I found it absolutely amazing. So nerve-racking. I think

the audience at home must have seen me shaking. You survived death

multiple times. You were the one being dredged and not doing the

dredging this week. Yes, I don't like that -- being judged and not

doing the dredging. David Hasselhoff, singer, actor, judge,

can we had magician now? Working with Latimer has been great and all

you guys. Being behind the scenes I have been welcomed into a secret

world of magic. He has been great. Has Julia done enough? I hope so.

We tried our best, that is all we can give. We are about to find out.

We have now seen all our acts performed their tricks. The phone

lines are now closed. Please stop calling because your vote will not

count and you may be charged. While we are tallying up the votes, we

have a special guest for you. He is one of the stars of Cirque de los -

- Cirque du Soleil and The Magicians in Sweden. Please put

your hands together for Michael Halvarson and his glamourous

I have not done this before. I like that lady, the blonde. Put your

hand up. Can you please stand up. That is perfect. Get a microphone

on you. And you need one other person. What is your name? Helen.

Please stand up, Helen. We will get a microphone on Helen. Thank you.

My name is Michael. You are Helen and this is Debbie. Please stand

over here. Just relax. We have not met before, have we? Know. No.

here to check your attention. To do that, you do not need to be

frightened. It is very easy. I have a yellow ball. This is very easy

because if we take this yellow ball, put it into my hand, I blow and it

disappears. Hold your horses. It reappears over here. It will be

better. I will show you. I want you to hold out your hands like this.

Super-duper. I want you to hold this ball in this hand. I want you

to hold it up like that, even better. No, not bad. If you hold it

like this, you can feel the ball. can. If you hold it tight like that,

you know here is the ball. Hold it tight and neck sure you have the

ball. I have the ball. Hold it tight. I want you to do the same

thing. Did you see what she did? Hold out your hands. Great. Because,

also, I have a second ball. And this one, I want you to hold a be

here. Hold at high and can you see she holds that? Hold it exactly

like that. That is perfect. I will show you something which you will

What I am going to show you is the best trick I know. I will make a

bad ball travel from here to here by magic. At the same time, I will

let that ball travel in the opposite direction. Hold your

horses. Open your hands. And they have changed places! I love this

trip myself. But, this time, I want you once more to do exactly as they

do. Hold out your hands like this and do like I did. Bend your left

arm, bend your right arm. Look down on your hands and say it after me:

I cannot believe it's true. I will remember this for the rest of my

life. Because I can't believe he took my watch. Oh, my God! He took

my watch. Is it right? I am so amazed. That was amazing. This is

great, Darren. Bring in there were. -- bring it lower. I get it. This

bag, actually, I will not touch this. If you open the bag, can you

find something, reach inside. What is it that you can find?

watches. Yes. This one is yours and this one is yours. Oh, my God, yes.

That is amazing. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Michael

OK, it is forfeit time, folks. Can I have the results, please? Here

they come. Thank you, gorgeous. OK. I can now reveal the act with the

most votes tonight and definitely safe from performing the forfeit,

it is making me nervous just talking about it is... Barry &

Stuart and Craig again! Of yes! your hands together for the

winners! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE The act with

the fewest votes who will now be walking barefoot over razor-sharp

swords and have to face the terrifying samurai slice is...

It is anathema and the Hoff! -- What happened? I don't know! Maybe

they just want to see more of year. These guys will say goodbye to

their loved ones. We will remind you at home what they will attempt.

Here it is. The samurai sword is renowned for

having the sharpest blade in the world. In tonight's forfeit, the

losing act must walk barefooted up eight Samurai sword for ladder.

They will lie on a bed of swords. A melon will be placed on their

stomach and a source -- swordsman will attempt to slice it. That does

not look fun at all. In no circumstances should you attempt

these at home. They are very dangerous. I will show you how

sharp these things are here. Is what they will be walking up with

Then they will have to live over here. They will be lying on them.

Finally, they will be sliced and diced with this guy and this sort

here. Very, very, very sharp indeed. I need you in your position. I want

to see you did this. We are doing Guys, you have to pay attention.

Whatever you do, just listen to everything Latimer says here. If

you don't, it could be very, very dangerous. You have seen they're

incredibly sharp. I am going to throw over to you, Latimer. Take it

away. David, for this one - this one is very simple -

SHOUTING Hold on one second. I want to make

sure your foot is evenly spaced across the blades. One, that would

be bad. Three, that's better. I guarantee you, it will not be

comfortable, but make sure it's spread across all blades. It will

not be comfortable. I know. Make sure your foot goes flat across all

the blades. Ready? Oh, yeah. foot at a time, all right?

the blade. Wow! Got it? On three - one - are you guys excited?

AUDIENCE: YEAH! It hurts already. Hoff, off.

on, Hoff. Come on, Hoff! AUDIENCE: Hoff, Hoff, Hoff!

I can't do it. Give me a hand. Ahhh! Whoa! Last one. Come on. And

the other one. Just go straight to the end. Wow. Go all the way to the

end. Ahh! Whoa! Whoa! I'm never going to do that again. Never again.

Woo! Same thing as before, just a little

bit bigger. All right? Same thing. Spread out your body... Yeah.

means basically from your knees to your elbow across the blades. Keep

your body stiff until laid down, then gentle when you're on the

blades, OK? Stiff and then be gentle?! And relax when they're

there. How do your feet feel? very good. Wait until your back is

done with this one. Stiff, then relaxed. OK. Ahh! Ahh! Ahh! All

right. All right. Thank you. sliced Hoff! Ahh! Wow. I'm going to

go. Ready. Well, he's not that big - that's

easy for you, dude. Come on. Man, sliced Hoff. All right. Now,

there's a couple more instructions, but I am going to wait until you're

perfectly on the blades. there's more. When do you guys stop

working out? Just kidding! So what do I - I come here, lay back? Just

fall in your arms? APPLAUSE

AUDIENCE: Hoff, Hoff, Hoff!

Ow! Where are my hands? Right down here? Whoa! Oh, joy! Hoff? Hoff?

thought I liked working with you, dude. It has been a pleasure, first

of all. OK, guys, guys, just what I need you to do - don't block that

blade... Oh, my God! The blade they're going to... Three, two -

one. Oh! Come on, man. I'm trying to bring Knight Rider back. Whoa!

Keep your hands still, David. hi, how are you? Good, man. Do me a