Ben Bradshaw (entertainer)

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Ben Bradshaw
Ben Bradshaw Promotional Photo
Background information
Birth name	Ben Bradshaw
Born	December 1982
Origin	Blackpool, England
Occupation(s)	Magician Comedian Entertainer
Years active	1987 - present
Website	benbradshaw.com.au

Ben Bradshaw, (born December, 1982), is an British corporate comedy entertainer who broke two Guinness World Records for the fastest straitjacket escape. [1]

1 Biography & History
2 Current career
3 World Record Achievements
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Biography & History

Ben Bradshaw was born in Blackpool, a well known and best loved seaside resort in North Western England. He became interested in the art of magic and illusion at an early age of five, when a magician came to his birthday party. Ben continued honing his magic skills and developed his own unique illusions which led him to perform magic at a professional level. Ben received an invitation to join The Magic Circle, an organization dedicated to magic. He became the youngest magician in Australia to be admitted into the prestigious society. [2]

[edit] Current career

Today, Ben Bradshaw is regarded as one of Australia's "fastest rising magicians". Over the years he has performed magic for millions of TV viewers and thousands of Australia's leading companies and corporations. [3] In 2003, Bradshaw founded 'Australians Magicians Bureau', an agency providing clients with high quality magicians for entertainment purposes. [4]

[edit] World Record Achievements

Ben Bradshaw performed his first Guinness World Record on April 17, 2005 on the set of Guinness World Records in Sydney. The challenge was to escape from a regulation straitjacket while submerged in a tank of water. The record was successfully performed in a time of 38.59 seconds. The record was much-promoted and featured in one of the highest-rating episodes of the TV show. [5]

Several weeks later, on June 19 2005, Ben Bradshaw performed a different type of straitjacket escape. This time the record was to be performed on dry land, wearing what he claimed was the latest, "most impenetrable" (posey) straitjacket on the market. The record was accomplished in a time of 50.08 seconds, beating the previous 1 minute and 22 second record set by David Straitjacket, who also used a Posey straitjacket, five months earlier.

According to The Courier Mail (September 02, 2006), Bradshaw believes that there is only a handful of people in the world who can actually escape from real straitjackets and a lot of magicians who claim they can are wearing 'fake' straitjackets. As such, a posey straitjacket is the only type of straitjacket now permitted for use in world records. Two adjudicators, including a jacket examiner, were required to witness Bradshaw's attempt. [6]