Long before Stephen Mulhern joined the cast of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway - and even before he hosted Britain's Got More Talent and Catchphrase - the London-born presenter and comedian was on our television screens performing magic.
Stephen, now 44, was just 21 when he began presenting CITV in 1998 and soon got his very own show, Finger Tips, which he co-presented with Fearne Cotton from 2001 until 2003 and with Naomi Wilkinson in 2004. The series was aimed at children and saw presenters try easy child-friendly cooking and baking recipes and make games and crafts. On one particular episode, Stephen decided to show viewers a cool magic trick - and explain how it's done.
A keen magician ever since he was a child, Stephen had an extensive repertoire of magic tricks in his back pocket by the time he was a teenager, and he thought Finger Tips would be a great opportunity to teach his young viewers something different. The Magic Circle, an elite group of magicians of which Stephen had been a member since he was just 17 years old, disagreed.
