'Bad boys of magic' Penn & Teller inducted into Magic Circle after 50 years of being barred

Penn & Teller person yet been inducted into the Magic Circle - aft 50 years of being denied membership.

Rock stars of magic, Penn & Teller recovered fame successful the mid-1980s, earning them fans connected some sides of the pond, but their wont of explaining their tricks to the assemblage besides earned them magical disapproval.

The duo were famously barred from the Magic Circle for exposing their tricks arsenic portion of their act, flying successful the look of the organisation's content successful keeping magical secrets from the public.

Formed successful 1905, the Magic Circle presently has astir 1,750 members from astir the world, each of whom person passed an exam to join.

Penn & Teller's celebrated fans see the King (who is besides a Magic Circle member), portion their critics see Donald Trump, who's said to person enactment them connected his "enemies list".

The presumption took spot connected Friday, connected the steps of the Palladium, successful London's West End, wherever Penn & Teller are presently performing their 50th Anniversary residency.

Magic Circle president Marvin Berglas said: "In the past they whitethorn person been known arsenic the atrocious boys of magic with their sometimes arguable and hard-hitting prime of material.

"There was disapproval from immoderate successful the past for their seemingly exposing magical secrets. However, for those successful the know, the existent magic was ever with their archetypal and creator performances whereby audiences thought they understood however thing whitethorn person been done lone to beryllium utterly amazed with an wholly antithetic archetypal method.

"For this - Penn and Teller are the kings. These days The Magic Circle is the spot for a genuinely divers radical of originative minds and talented performers."

Penn & Teller said: "We're honoured that the Magic Circle has invited america to beryllium members, aft we've violated its cardinal regularisation - don't springiness distant secrets - for 5 decades. This is going to beryllium fun."

Penn & Teller archetypal performed unneurotic successful August 1975, breaking into the mainstream successful the mid-1980s, and touring with critically acclaimed shows passim the 1990s and achieving TV occurrence successful some the US and UK.

They volition beryllium performing their 50th Anniversary Tour astatine The London Palladium until Wednesday, 24 September.