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Bad news for Simon Cowell as FIVE magicians snub him..

Bad news for Simon Cowell as FIVE magicians snub him..

Simon Cowell is used to getting his own way, but he’s said to be massively disappointed after five magicians he was targeting for Britain’s Got Talent have signed up to a rival show!

The judge wanted the genius fivesome – comprised of Ben Hart, Dee Christopher, Damien O’Brien, Jasz Vegas and Chris Cox – to take part in his talent contest, but they are instead starring in new BBC show Killer Magic.

Hosted by Joe Swash, Killer Magic airs on BBC3 next Tuesday at 10pm. The group will perform five tricks for each other before deciding which stunt wins.
And it seems their decision to snub Cowell and the gang is the latest in a long line of refusals.

Ben said: “BGT rings every year and every year I say, ‘No way’. If they buzz you too early, you are devaluing your product.”

Altogether now: OUCH! (Written by Anna Porter for Best Daily Co. uk )

http://www.bestdaily.co.uk/showbiz/news/a636460/bad-news-for-simon-cowell-as-five-magicians-snub-him.html

Magician is never afraid to ice with death..

Magician is never afraid to ice with death..

By Roz Laws for the Birmingham Mail.

He’s diced with death performing dangerous tricks involving knives and broken glass.

But one of his riskiest stunts was when Ben Hart stripped down to his underpants for a trick in an Ice Hotel.

Filming all day in temperatures of minus five degrees, he ended up with hypothermia and could barely talk.

It was for the BBC3 show Killer Magic, a new series which is going out in September.

Ben has already travelled around the world performing his act, even though he’s just 23.

But now he’s back in the UK, touring his show The Outsider which plays Stafford’s Gatehouse Theatre tonight.

Killer Magic is a competition among five magicians who are scored by audiences. The one with the lowest score has to take on a trick which has previously seriously injured or killed a magician…

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