Illusionist Derren Brown says he got blamed for creating Covid
dailyrecord.co.ukDerren Brown had people blaming him for Covid. The mastermind illusionist has been keeping our mouths agape for more than two decades in TV shows like Apocalypse, The Heist, Pushed to the Edge and Russian Roulette.At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, Derren, 50, was bombarded on social media with people claiming Covid was somehow created by him.He laughed: “People were saying I’d created Covid and it wasn’t true.
I pretended to fess up and say it was me but there came a point where it wasn’t so funny.“I get a lot of that. It started with Brexit.
I tend to get blamed initially for anything that seems like a big experiment.”And no wonder. Derren, who describes himself as a psychological illusionist, is also described as a mentalist, magician and hypnotist.
He is the king of manipulations.In 2016’s Pushed to the Edge, he used social compliance to make a group of people shove a man to his apparent death.In 2006’s The Heist, he used conditioning, anchoring and suggestion to make a group of middle managers stage an armed robbery.And in 2012’s Apocalypse, he convinced Steve Brosnan, a member of the public, that he was living in a zombie apocalypse.Derren said: “I got a text message from Steve when Covid all started saying, ‘Thank you.
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