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birthday. However he did not get the required votes to get through to the next round. As
Professor Strange he won the combined Welsh & Scottish heat to become a finalist in the 2022 UK Family Entertainer of the Year Competition held at Blackpool Magic Convention, the world's biggest annual magic convention.
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in which he also starred. As a live performer he specialises in magic and comedy. He appears at festivals, theme parks, holiday parks, corporate events and cruise ships as the cabaret magician Alan Thorn, the
Steampunk magician Professor Strange and also with his comedy children's show as Gizmo with
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comedy performer David Wolf, Kempthorne being primarily a juggler and Wolf a magician. The pair started appearing on television in the UK and United States. This partnership ended abruptly with David's suicide three years into their partnership. Kempthorne then became a solo comedy act, Dweebie the
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in which they both played main parts. The film was released in the UK in 2009 and in the US in 2010. He cites the book The
Guerilla Film Makers Handbook as being influential in helping him with the screenwriting and pre-production processes of the film. A version of the script was published titled
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based magicians Paul Wilson and Ian Kendal while living in
Edinburgh in his early twenties, during which time he worked at a juggling equipment shop. In more recent years he furthered his magical training at the McBride Magic & Mystery School in Las Vegas, Nevada, being personally tutored by
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Kempthorne performs magic and circus acts as a Steampunk Victorian styled character Professor Strange. He performs acts as a cabaret comedy magician and a children's magician on cruise ships, holiday parks and corporate events and also as a close-up magician at weddings, dinners and
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