David Blaine is the Marmite of magicians. You either love him, hate him, or he’ll do when you’ve run out of Nutella.
You want someone to stand on a stick for a few days? Blaine’s your man. You want someone to get into a cupboard made of ice? Blaine’s your man. You want someone to sit in a box above a river for ages while people throw sauages at them? Blaine’s your man. You want someone to freak out the fat GMTV man by drawing an eye on their hand? That’s right. Blaine’s your man.
Actually, the London thing he did was pretty good. Mainly because it made Paul McCartney go a bit weird and start abusing photographers.
The big question is: How can he top sitting in a box for 44 days with no food? And now the question has been answered…
He’s going to walk a tight-rope.
And that appears to be it. No huge length of time spent doing anything, he’s not going to try something new or unique. He’s basically going to be a circus performer.
Blaine admits that the new stunt will be "easy and fun", so it looks like he’s ditched all the hokey mystic stuff for now. Although, it is David Blaine, and it is going to be in Manhatten, so there’s a chance he’ll be walking a three-mile tightrope a million feet in the air.
But we’re worried by the whole ‘circus’ nature of the stunt. And that worry will only stop when he doesn’t arrive at the location in a tiny spluttering car.