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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If that were the case ollie then there would never have been any plants in shows. I think the answer to your query is that plants are paid to keep stumpf. Even if they do go to the newspapers with their story the following happens 1) its not a big story for the newspapers as everybody knows that magicians like Brown use plants 2) those who dont want to believe the story will never will as they are quite happy in the romantic notion that someone has special powers. 3) most of the plants are budding magicians themselves so why will they rock the boat?.
I have much more respect for jugglers (hours of practice) and magicians who use sleight of hand as that is more skilful. To buy someone off to act surprised is just plain conning in my book.
I've just done a quick google and can't find anything to back up what you're saying dom, I don't think 'everyone knows' they use plants. I didn't think that anyway. I also don't think he has 'special powers'. I think he's very clever at what he does, however he does it! Derren Brown is a fantastic entertainer, it does not mean that he is a cheater.
What else do I need? Well so far i only have your word for it. Maybe a link from a site where they 'admitted' it?
I never saw the Roullette one, but I did watch the seance show and I thought that was clever, however he does it the tricks he is amazing at it. It's obvious that it's not magic powers, but I don't think he uses plants in everything. No TV station in their right mind would televise a show knowing that there is a possibility that someone could get shot, I'm interested in how he makes you believe things by suggestion.
I agree, that I don't think it would be possible to use a plant in every show. When on tour, he would have to use different plants for every night in every town - if he just toured for one month and had five or six guests up on stage throughout the show you're talking nearly 200 plants.
Hobart, is he worth going to see live? He's in my town on 1st May and I was debating wheter to go or not.