Although Paul has had an interesting career I have concentrated here solely on his Magic Career.

 

Paul is one of Britains most famous magicians (born Newton Edward Daniels in Middlesborough, 6 April 1938)
is a British magician and television performer.

 

He is without doubt one of the finest Magicians in the World.

Paul became famous nationally by his tv series The Paul Daniels Magic Show,
which ran on the BBC from 1979 to 1994.

He began his interest in Magic when he was 11 when he read a book called How To Entertain At Parties.

From that moment it was all he really wanted to do.
He began performing magic as a hobby, occasionally entertaining at parties and
youth clubs and later doing shows for fellow servicemen during his national service. When he returned to civilian life he continued to develop his magic by performing in clubs in the evenings while working at his grocery business during the day.
Paul and his first wife Jackie worked under the name of The Eldanis, an anagram of Daniels.
He worked in Many working mens clubs and became know for his catch-phrase
Youll like this...not a lot, but you ll like it.
It was a good way to deal with a tiresome heckler !

After working with his parents in their shop and afterwards as an auditor,
Paul became a Professional Magician.

He was offered a summer season at Newquay in 1969.
Paul made his television debut on the long-running talent show Opportunity Knocks
in 1970, and came second.

 

                          Never Work with Children or Animals ...

 

TV producer Johnnie Hamp saw Daniels in that show and later gave him a regular spot on The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club for Granada Television.
(The wheeltappers and Shunters Club was a re-creation of a Working Mens Club on TV)
Things went well for Paul.
He starred in his own stage show at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Its Magic,which was one of the longest-running magic shows ever staged in London.
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Now he was already working with his future wife,the lovely Debbie McGee,
 whose role as his assistant would become a major feature of his act..
The Paul Daniels Magic Show was next on the BBC from 1979 until 1994.

 As well as featuring tricks and illusions for pure entertainment,
 he also included a regular segment (the Bunco Booth) in which he exposed the
 confidence tricks of street charlatans.
 He also replicated the kind of results that have impressed researchers of the
 paranormal and parapsychologists and  demonstrated his skepticism about some claims made in these fields.

 

In addition to his magic shows he hosted a number of other television series
 during the 1980s and 1990s,

 

 Daniels still tours doing live magic and recently presented a show about magician Max Malini.

 

On 28 November 2006, Daniels presented a magic show at the Eton College Magic Society to about 500 Etonians.

 

Paul Daniels was awarded the prestigious Magician of the Year
Award by the Hollywood Academy of Magical Arts in 1983,
and was the first magician from outside the US to receive it.

 An Easter special of The Paul Daniels Magic Show won the Golden Rose of Montreux Award at the International TV Festival in Switzerland in 1985.

 

Recently he was named World Greatest Magician by students at Boston Spa School Yorkshire.
Paul turned up to the ceremony and gave an impromptu show.

Daniels maintains a website, including a blog and personal information,
 and records podcasts.

 He currently owns a magic/fancy dress shop in Wigan town centre.
 He has stated he has an ambition to star in a Hollywood film.

 Pauls car numberplate reads reads MAG1C.