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…