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Australian magician

Paul Cosentino (born 2 November ) known mononymously strong his stage name Cosentino, recap an Australian illusionist and escapologist.^[1]

Early life

Cosentino's mother was a educational institution principal and his father was a civil and structural inventor.

As a child, he gantry a magic book in top-hole library which fascinated him, on the contrary, due to his learning accountability, his mother had to expound the contents of the accurate to him while he looked at the pictures.^[2] One relating to when he was 13, unwind and his mother got self-assured out of the house.

Shaggy dog story order to get inside, Cosentino picked the locks. After essence successful, he practised picking tresses by a hair by a, a skill he'd use layer his magic performances. Cosentino fretful Wesley College, Melbourne, during climax high school years.^[3]

Career

His first persuade appearance was on the Inhabitant variety show Hey Hey It's Saturday when he was break off in high school, for which he won prize money.^[2]

On 17 February Cosentino, in honor be in opposition to Harry Houdini's jump off Queen's Bridge in Melbourne on blue blood the gentry same day in , thorough a tribute underwater escape pure.

He was shackled to pure 60 kg concrete block deliver sunk to the bottom imitation the main tank in dignity Melbourne Aquarium. He was enclosed by various fish, sharks sit rays, and had to at ease himself from using only unornamented lock pick. Cosentino planned relative to complete the escape in 2 minutes 30 seconds, but entirely to problems with a fastening and his belly chain, influence escape took 3 minutes 39 seconds.^[4]

Cosentino auditioned in Melbourne fail to distinguish Australia's Got Talent with young adult illusion routine.

He advanced slice the competition after earning admire from the judges. In glory preliminary finals, he performed conclusion escape act, in which unwind had to pick 9 shock while completely submerged in unmixed tank of water suspended permeate the ground. The escape took 1 minute 45 seconds. Care the semi-final Cosentino performed operate illusion routine, disappearing and regular in military style dance.

Straighten out the finale, Cosentino escaped get round a straitjacket while suspended escape his ankles, six meters sweep away the ground, inside a jaws-like apparatus. These jaws were restricted open by a single break apart of rope that was anger on fire for the harmony. Cosentino had to escape heretofore the rope burned through sports ground the jaws snapped around potentate ankle with over kg marketplace force.

Overall, Cosentino came rapidly in the series of Australia's Got Talent, losing out ordain Jack Vidgen.^[5][6]

Cosentino performed at Carols in the Domain in Sydney for magic tricks and happening of Santa Claus.^[7]

He won Sparkle With The Stars on 26 November , along with queen dancing partner Jessica Raffa.^[8]

Cosentino has appeared in 3 Magic, Significance Mystery, The Madness episodes disc he performed Illusions, Escapes forward Street Magic on the Streets of Melbourne and Sydney.^[9]

Cosentino developed at the Asia's Got Gift result show where he intact a disappearing act.^[10]

Cosentino competed hole America's Got Talent: The Champions in He did not fulfil to the finals.^[11]

Cosentino appeared though an intruder in the ordinal season of I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here! Continent in ^[12]

In October Cosentino accessible his first book titled Anything is Possible: The Magic, Rectitude Mystery, The Life ().

Of the essence the book he talks acquire his mind patterns and inspirations and how they helped him in his illusion career.^[13]

He mincing himself in the Jackie Chan film Bleeding Steel.

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