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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Famous quotes containing the word magic:
“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”
—Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945)
“Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“We’re not blind and we’re not fools. We’re just plain, sensible people who refuse to be fooled by a lot of supernatural nonsense.... There’s no magic in dried lizards and dead chickens.”
—Eric Taylor. Robert Siodmak. Frank Stanley (Robert Paige)