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Who is Penn from Penn and Teller? American magician performing on Royal Variety Performance 2024
Including how the star duo plan to celebrate their 50th anniversary
MAGIC duo Penn & Teller will be performing at The Royal Variety Performance 2024.
Penn and Teller, will be flying in especially for the prestigious Royal event which is set to be aired in December.
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The Royal Variety Performance is the world's longest-running entertainment show, with the first royal show held in 1912.
The annual charity event, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, will be attended by King Charles and Queen Camilla.
Alan Carr and Amanda Holden will be hosting the charity event on Friday, November 22, 2024 at the Royal Albert Hall, but the show will not air on ITV until December.
Penn & Teller will perform at the Royal event as they embark on their 50th anniversary, ahead of a big UK tour the duo have planned in 2025.
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Magician Stephen Mulhern will also be with the promise of some incredible illusions.
Who is Penn Jillette?
Penn Fraser Jillette is an American magician, actor, musician, inventor, TV presenter, and author.
He was born on March 5, 1955, in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
He is best known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller.
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The duo has been featured in a number of stage and TV shows, such as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Penn & Teller: Bulls***!
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As an author, Jillette has published eight books, including the New York Times Bestseller, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales.
Penn and Teller perform the 'Smoking Sleight of Hand' trick
What TV shows has Penn Jillette been in?
In 2008, Jillette was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, paired with professional dancer Kym Johnson.
He was the first celebrity to be eliminated.
He was also one of the contestants on The Celebrity Apprentice season five in February 2012.
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Other TV appearances include:
Celebrity Jeopardy!
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Penn Jillette appeared on Celebrity Jeopardy! in 2015.
Arriving solo without Teller, Penn was a guest on the show.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
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Penn & Teller first appeared on the 15th season of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire on October 18, 2016, during Celebrity Week - Las Vegas.
The duo won $10,000 after answering their $30,000 question incorrectly.
Big Star Little Star
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Penn appeared on season 1, episode 6 of the hit TV show, Big Star Little Star, with his son, Zolten.
Toy Story
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Penn appeared in the 1995 animated film Toy Story as a TV announcer.
The Simpsons
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Penn appeared in two episodes of The Simpsons.
The first episode was entitled, The Great Simpsina in 2011.
He also guest starred as himself alongside Teller in the episode, "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder," of season 11.
Other TV appearances include:
- Piers Morgan Tonight
- 25 Words or Less
- The View
- Celebrity Food Fight
- Today
- The Wendy Williams Show
- Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
- Modern Family
- Good Morning Britain
- Friends
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Is Penn married and does he have children?
Penn is married to Emily Jillette.
Like her husband, Emily works in the entertainment industry.
According to her IMDB profile, she began working on movie sets in the early 1990s.
Emily was listed as a production assistant on the movies Rookie of the Year and Striking Distance.
The pair met in the early 2000s after one of his shows and then tied the knot roughly two years after dating.
According to public records, the couple got married on November 23, 2004.
Their daughter, Moxie Crime Fighter, was born in 2005, while their son Zolten Penn arrived the following year.
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How did Penn meet Teller?
Penn and Teller were introduced to each other by Wier Chrisemer in the 1970s.
They performed their first show together at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival on August 19, 1975.
Speaking in an interview with CBS Local's DJ Sixsmith about their success as a duo, Jillette said: "When I first met him, Teller was already working silently.
"I think he was really interested in seeing if he could lie to people without speaking. By the time I met Teller, he was a good magician. I was a juggler. I wasn't a funny physical comedian and then I decided I wanted to do more talking.
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"We're from middle-class backgrounds. My father was a jail guard, Teller's dad was a commercial artist.
"We came to New York on a whim in 1984. Producers took a shot on us and we did not expect to be successful."
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