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I was thinking of adding this to his page; "He is generally considered a heel".
Important addendum: During the mid 1970's to early 1980's Paul Daniels marketed the, "TV Magic" line of products. This included simple decks of magic cards and elaborate kits containing many tricks. These kits cotained a record, and latter a cassette tape, that contained instruction recorded on them. "TV Magic" was mass marketed along side Ginsu Knives and the, "Super Bass-o-Matic '76", never the less the kits contained magic which was enjoyable to perform such as paddle tricks, and balloon penetrations.
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[edit] Why has this been removed?
*At the end of his interview on ITV's The Mint he did a dirty trick to his interviewer, Kat Shoob by offering his cheek for a friendly kiss and turned at the last minute, kissing her on the mouth. She later described this as her worst ever experience in a magazine interview with Maxim.
It was the last thing he has done on TV.
[edit] Questionable Quote
I've removed this...
In the same year, he threatened to leave the UK if New Labour were elected, a threat he did not carry out. However he defends this as a misquote on his own website.
...as there's no source for the original "threat", only for Daniels' defence of it as a misquote: "This was a creation of a north east journalist who 'edited' the answer to his own question." Tuffian 19:57, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Daniels said it out loud on a early Channel Five show which went around his house (a sort of proto 'Cribs') He stated that he would leave the UK were Labour to be elected that May. When asked where he would go he boasted of being about to get a huge contract in Las Vegas. Djarra 12:01, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
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- I also recall hearing him admit he said it and then slightly "back pedalling" by explaining that the original remark was meant to be a qualified statement. Before the election he was concerned about the old-style Labour Party but because "New Labour" turned out to be rather different he didn't feel his threat applied. Problem is I can't remember exactly which show that was on. We really need a clear and specific citation if this is to be included. Circusandmagicfan 13:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)Circusandmagicfan
[edit] Racism
Why doesn´t this article many any reference whatsoever to Daniels´lifelong obsession with making crap ethnic stereotypes, throughout his equally crap career, hosting crap gameshows? It's the main reason he's been booted off the TV.
The articles seems to have been written by people who actually admire him. Hence the deletion of anything remotely negative.
- Anything negative must be sourced, otherwise it could be libellous. That's probably why it's removed. — AnemoneProjectors (talk) 14:38, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] TV appearances - booted off British TV due to being crap, not "retired"
Hello. The reason Daniels is no longer permitted to draw his multi million pound fees (from the licence-payer) for his gameshows is not because he voluntarily "retired" - it's because the British public were sick to death of his crap jokes, crap "magic" and crap gameshows. He was booted off. Much in the same way as Noel Edmonds. This article, as it stands, represents a dishonest attempt to sidestep this fact - it has clearly been written by middle-aged, cardigan-wearing fans of his who long for the good old days of the early 1980s, when it was still acceptable to make lame, unfunny racist jokes and third rate entertainment for the masses. Sorry to be so blunt. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.19.182.155 (talk) 04:18, 24 December 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Wig
"Unbeknownst to TV audiences, Daniels sported a wig for the majority of his television career"
This is not really true. Everyone knew he wore a piece. It was not convinceing at all. After he stopped wearing it he has claimed he knew it was bad but that was the point. You were looking at that and not his hands. Djarra 12:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Incorrect, I'm afraid. If you read the source article, he acknowledges that it was a secret...whether it was a poorly kept secret or otherwise is not the issue.
