Magic
As Stephen is also a professional magician, the programme often featured performances of various magic tricks and illusions by him or visiting guest magicians. Although the illusions sometimes featured the use of professional magician's assistants, very often, either Holly or one of the guest celebrities would take part in them. Some of the illusions performed on various shows included:
- Holly being sawed in half by Stephen inside a glass-sided box where she was visible all of the time.
- Holly having a sword pushed through her neck.
- Holly being chopped into three by Stephen in a trick called The Zig-Zag Girl.
- Holly having a pipe pushed all the way through her stomach, through which Stephen then poured milk.
- Cheryl Cole from Girls Aloud having her head chopped off by a guillotine.
- Kimberley Walsh from Girls Aloud being made to levitate.
- Emma Bunton being sawed in half while standing up in an illusion called Modern Art.
Read more about this topic: Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown
Famous quotes containing the word magic:
“But these young scholars, who invade our hills,
Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,
And travelling often in the cut he makes,
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not
And all their botany is Latin names.
The old men studied magic in the flowers.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.”
—Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942)
“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”
—Gail Sheehy (20th century)