His first TV break came when The Disney Channel invited him to perform some tricks and before long he was a presenter for ITV’s children’s channel CITV, where he stayed from 1998 to 2001. Mulhern started his career on CITV, presenting alongside Holly Willoughby (Photo: Ferdaus Shamim/WireImage) I decided quite early on that I’d definitely leave at 16.” He soon became the resident magician at toy shop Hamleys, and began sending audition tapes to the TV producers he read about in the Radio Times listings. “I loved music and drama at school but everything else – maths or geography or history – I didn’t like. “The products we were selling needed demonstrating, so it was like learning a script,” he recalls. While they didn’t have any concrete links to the entertainment industry, he credits his time working on the family stall at London’s Petticoat Lane Market as his first foray into performance. Mulhern’s family have always been supporters of their son’s ambitions. Would I tell my sister to put her head in a big vat of spaghetti and find meatballs with her mouth? Absolutely.” “Would I try to get my mum to roll a sausage roll up my dad’s body? Yes, I would. “Under no circumstances would I want to embarrass anyone,” he explains. His litmus test for some of the more madcap challenges is whether he’d ask his family to do the same thing. People want to have a nice time – life’s tough enough, so if there’s a moment when we can all have a giggle, that’s what we should do.” “Maybe it’s partly because of the pandemic and everybody’s happy now, but we were getting the same response before Covid.
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The new series of In For a Penny is currently filming across the UK, and Mulhern is still often surprised by how much the people he approaches are willing to go along with. It’s people like that who you really root for.”Ĭountdown’s new host Anne Robinson: ‘There’s a lot of self-censoring on TV’ “I remember there was a girl in the first series who just wanted to stock the fridge and get a new mattress. “Especially when someone is being so real, when someone openly says they need the money,” he adds. The best part, he says, is being able to give people life-changing amounts of money. If we ever run out of celebrities, we’ll be fine.” Mulhern presents game show Rolling In It on ITV (Photo: Over The Top Productions/ITV) You could have siblings or partners and it would work just as well. “I don’t even think you need celebrities on it,” says Mulhern, more honestly than I was expecting. Jeopardy comes in the form of “bankrupt” slots, which can lose contestants their banked cash or force them to skip their go. Now in its second series, the game teams members of the public with celebrity helpers – this series’ include Martin Kemp, Strictly’s Oti Mabuse and Jason Manford – to answer general knowledge questions and hopefully roll a giant penny into a slot worth a lot of money.
He is currently on our screens every Saturday night as host of ITV’s Rolling In It, an oversized version of the Roll a Penny arcade game found on most UK piers. Nowadays, he is best known as a game-show host, entertainer and the supportive third wheel to Ant and Dec’s double act. There is also the likes of Steve Martin, Stephen Fry but I’m sure everyone knows of them.Now 44, Mulhern still holds the record as the youngest magician to be invited into the inner sanctum – he was just 17 when the Circle came knocking. According to him it helped his recovery by making his “brain work in different ways”Įddie Redmayne when he’s on the big screen playing Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything” or in film adaptations of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”, he is also a budding magician. Nigel Mansell took up magic after the accident that ended his racing career. Neil Patrick Harris – you might know him best for playing Doogie Howser or Barnie Stinson in “How I met Your Mother”, but did you know he is also a magician? More than that he was once the President at the Magic Castle in Hollywood! He was so interested in magic that he hired a personal magician to travel with him and teach him magic – as you do! Muhammed Ali wasn’t only quick and shifty in the boxing ring – he was pretty good at sleight of hand too.
I mean cups and balls trick, on this basis, surely I can get in, no? The most surprising for me is Prince Charles as we live in Wales here in UK, he is our Prince! He joined in 1975 (same year the other half was born) after being taken by his Uncle and performing the world famous “cups and balls trick’ So as I begin my digging into the world of magic, I came across this list of celebs that are members of the elusive circle which honestly blew my mind…
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