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Britain’s Got Talent’s Chloe Crawford ‘leaves magician husband Murray Sawchuck and starts relationship with £65million Las Vegas rival Criss Angel’

Britain’s Got Talent’s Chloe Crawford ‘leaves magician husband Murray Sawchuck and starts relationship with £65million Las Vegas rival Criss Angel’

By JJ NATTRASS FOR MAILONLINE   –   She wowed Simon Cowell and the rest of the Britain’s Got Talent judges with her disappearing act.But now Las Vegas showgirl and aspiring illusionist Chloe Crawford has pulled off her biggest vanishing act to date, by switching her magician her husband for his biggest rival. The former Playboy model, 27, and Murray Sawchuck, 41, reportedly ended their three-year union in September, with the busty blonde soon finding romance with Las Vegas legend Criss Angel.

Talking to The People, a source revealed their blossoming romance, saying: ‘It’s early days, but Chloe and Criss are very happy. They hit it off from day one. Although Murray is putting on a brave face he’s absolutely devastated. It’s a real slap in the face because Criss is his biggest rival.

‘He is more famous, his show is ­bigger, he takes more money and now he has Chloe as well. Their relationship is the talk of the town in Las Vegas.’ read more at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3278029/Britain-s-Got-Talent-s-Chloe-Crawford-leaves-magician-husband-Murray-Sawchuck-starts-relationship-65million-Las-Vegas-rival-Criss-Angel.html

No hard feelings after split with wife, Vegas magician says..

No hard feelings after split with wife, Vegas magician says..

By Norm Clarke –  Las Vegas Review-Journal

The magic went missing in a flash from the marriage of magician Murray Sawchuck and his British wife and stage assistant Chloe Crawford.

“For me, it came out of the blue,” Sawchuck said Tuesday. “It happened overnight. It was like an avalanche.”

The split, after a three-year-plus marriage, came last week when they jointly filed for divorce in Las Vegas. Crawford is 27, Sawchuck 42.

Crawford, who has appeared in his Tropicana show and as a topless dancer in “Fantasy” at the Luxor, flew to New Jersey this week, he said.

“I know she definitely wanted to push her career forward,” he added.

She got a huge career break in June when she became the first female magician to reach the semifinals of “Britain’s Got Talent.”

“I hope this is the start of me being a magician in my own right,” she told the London Mirror. “I love the dancing, but there’s only so long I can carry that on for.”

Her disappearing motorcycle act was a hit, and her appearance generated a lot of headlines in her homeland.

“The taste of fame can be a bit like a drug,” Sawchuck said. read more…

http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/columns-blogs/norm-clarke/no-hard-feelings-after-split-wife-vegas-magician-says

Getting there by magic: Budding Blount magician gets career taste in Las Vegas..

Getting there by magic: Budding Blount magician gets career taste in Las Vegas..

Some might view a last-minute invitation to Las Vegas with a touch of skepticism, but for local magician Ben Young, it was the opportunity of a lifetime.

“Superhero Magician” Ben Young experienced all the world of professional magic had to offer last month as he performed in Las Vegas with celebrated magician Murray Sawchuck, best known for his appearances on the History Channel series “Pawn Stars” and for being a semifinalist in the fifth season of “America’s Got Talent.”

Opening for Sawchuck on both the Planet Hollywood and Thunderbird Hanger stages, Young was given a crash course in the exciting and glamorous life of a Vegas performer, soaking in the desert scene nearly 2,000 miles from home. Read more… ( article by Tanner Hancock for The Daily Times..)

http://www.thedailytimes.com/news/getting-there-by-magic-budding-blount-magician-gets-career-taste/article_f7013c9c-aac4-5313-9baf-506fb7786fd1.html

Q+A: Murray Sawchuck’s blind drive leads to 21 escapes, TV appearances galore..

Q+A: Murray Sawchuck’s blind drive leads to 21 escapes, TV appearances galore..

By Robin Leach for Las Vegas Sun

There’s no denying that magician Murray Sawchuck is on a roll as he gets ready to take on a new run at Sin City Theater in Planet Hollywood after nearly three years at the Tropicana’s Laugh Factory.

He’s just completed four months of filming “Extreme Escapes,” which starts broadcasting on Reelz for 26 weeks as of this Saturday. He was asked to do the “Blind Drive” illusion and wound up being invited to do more than 21 “escapes” for the series.

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