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.
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