From Billy Kidd's Twitter feed:
New Series of Masters of Illusion starts this Friday on the @TheCW network. @cw_illusion A quick show with very quick magic. #magic pic.twitter.com/KgqFsWL5PF— Billy Kidd (@Billykiddshow) June 28, 2017
New Series of Masters of Illusion starts this Friday on the @TheCW network. @cw_illusion A quick show with very quick magic. #magic pic.twitter.com/KgqFsWL5PF— Billy Kidd (@Billykiddshow) June 28, 2017
Canadian born Billy Kidd started life as a child actor and didn't find magic until her twenties. She now lives in Bath and has done it all including street performing, close-up, stage and a ton of television, later this year you will see her on ITV1 attempting to become 'The Next Great Magician' too. In this interview Billy gives us an incredible insight in to what it's like to be a female in our male dominated industry
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Official like butter...#itv new show #NextGreatMagician starts Sunday's November 6 at 7pm.— Billy Kidd (@Billykiddshow) November 1, 2016
I'll be on episode 4. #magic #magicians #itv1 pic.twitter.com/eVaSirhiXS
Derren Brown’s Vaudeville Productions and Crook Productions have been commissioned by ITV to co-produce a brand new magic competition show, The Next Great Magician (6 x 60’). Crook Productions is part of Andrew O’Connor and ITV Studios’ Cat’s On The Roof Media, and The Next Great Magician is Crook Productions’ first big entertainment commission since the group’s inception earlier this year.
The series will feature the world’s best magicians performing their greatest tricks, many of them for the first time ever on television, as they compete to be crowned The Next Great Magician.
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Internationally renowned Magician @Billykiddshow will perform at the Inverness Street Festival from 13-15 October pic.twitter.com/96q40dVu8L— Inverness BID (@InvernessBID) September 19, 2016
Without home or possessions to tie her down, young vagabond Bo is light enough to take off. She travels to the big city, the desert and the jungle and experiences different adventures, joys and challenges. She uses what others throw away and with her magic touch makes anything possible.
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The name is Billy Kidd, only she’s not a kid or even an outlaw. She’s one of the very few women who perform magic tricks instead of acting as the male magician’s lovely assistant.
Born in Edmonton, now based outside of London, Ms. Kidd is so good at her craft she has been featured on the Discovery and Syfy channels, and entertains throughout Europe, Asia and Japan. She found her inspiration several years ago watching a street magician in Edmonton.
As much as she enjoyed the magic, it was the crowd’s reaction that resonated with Ms. Kidd.
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Three years ago Justin Flom and I hosted the first-ever "Wizard War" in a 2-bedroom apartment a block of the Vegas Strip. Against all odds, we parlayed it into a show on Syfy. (As a diehard Face Off fan, Syfy was always my #1 choice.) And against all further odds, they picked us up for more episodes.
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#wizardwars returns jan 29 on #syfy #space channels. #boomshakalaka http://t.co/kQWA3oCB8r
— Billy Kidd (@Billykiddshow) December 30, 2014
Wizard Wars with Billy Kidd returns for its second series! After the huge success of series one Syfy channel brings back with wizarding magic with Canadian magician Billy Kidd. Wizard Wars sees Billy creating jaw-dropping illusions using random objects and transforming them into eye popping miracles! The show is judged by magic legends Penn & Teller and Billy was the only magician last series to receive a standing ovation from the duo.
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Y'all seen the trailer for new eps of #WizardWars right? Is it ok to announce that @Billykiddshow is our new wizard? http://t.co/9FEnRdezUG
— Ellen Fox (@EllenFox) January 13, 2015
Ok the rumours are true. I was lucky enough to be upgraded to Wizard Status. New episodes Jan 29 on Syfy/Space in... http://t.co/QwrRDxQSsB
— Billy Kidd (@Billykiddshow) January 12, 2015
Syfy Airing 'Wizard Wars' Season One Marathon On Tuesday, December 23 http://t.co/616BOKVinG @pennjillette @MrTeller @ChristenGerhart @Syfy
— Red Carpet Crash (@redcarpetcrash) December 1, 2014
After the calculator in the balloon trick, Kidd mentioned that being Canadian meant that she loved maple syrup, a container of which had been sitting on the stage in front of a trashcan since the act’s beginning. Giving the bottle of sealed syrup to wizard Gregory Wilson, who confirmed that it was sealed, she and Leon began their finish.
Taking four leaves, Leon asked Penn & Teller to sign one of them and he then put all four in the leaf blower to be ejected so that Billy could skewer the autographed leaf with a single chopstick. This did not work and the payoff was that the object was in the sealed bottle of syrup. Cue real excitement from not just the audience but the judges and wizards as well.
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In the summer of 2004 Billy Kidd saw a magician entertain a crowd on the streets in Canada. Two years later Billy left her job, friends and country to become one of the few female magicians working in the world today.
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Wednesdays from 12th March, 8.00pm & 8.30pm
BREAKING MAGIC is back for another season of jaw-dropping illusions and mind-blowing tricks. Performed by an international, all-star cast of the freshest magic talent, including British Ben Hanlin, alongside Wayne Houchin, Billy Kidd, and newcomer Nate Staniforth, each week the stellar cast perform phenomenal street magic, across London, New York and Warsaw, baffling bystanders and audiences at home alike.
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(Silver Spring, MD)-Discovery Networks International (DNI) today announced the return of original series BREAKING MAGIC. Behind every trick is science, and this 14x30 series from Objective Productions brings back its international cast of magicians, Ben Hanlin, Billy Kidd, Wayne Houchin, along with newcomer, Nate Staniforth, for even more mesmerizing stunts and street magic. BREAKING MAGIC will premiere on Discovery Channel in 224 countries across Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America beginning February 2014.
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Today on CBC I'll be chatting about magic and the wonderful Skirtsafire festival. 5:40pm on Radioactive foshizzles.
— Billy Kidd (@Billykiddshow) March 8, 2013
Many of the festival’s headliners have already been discovered. They include Edmonton singer-songwriter Colleen Brown, and Billy Kidd, a born-in-Edmonton magician who has performed across Canada, Japan, the U.K. and Portugal. The four-day festival kicks off Thursday, March 7, with a live performance by singer-songwriter Maria Dunn, who weaves songs and video into a ballad that tells the story of the immigrant women who worked at the GWG factory over its 93-year history.
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In the course of diverse entertainments, you will see a pert magician (Billy Kidd) in a fedora escape from a straitjacket, while cheerfully baiting her male audience “volunteer.” A rare example of a “lady magician,” Billy Kidd, the onstage persona of Gia Felicitas, is an ironic take on the fast-talking, masculine norm.
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Among these voices is UK-based magician Billy Kidd, who is doing double duty as Aries and Capricorn. In a homage to Harry Houdini, who also happened to be have been an Aries, Kidd will undergo an escapist routine, while she personifies the qualities of Capricorn through a mind-reading number—involving a monkey.The show runs Thu, Jan 31 to Sat, Feb 10.
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Taipei, Jan. 25 (CNA) Canadian magician Billy Kidd astounded a Taipei audience Friday with a routine of science-based tricks during an event to promote a new TV series that purports to "fuse science with magic."
Kidd demonstrated several routines, including how to pick up a glass full of rice with a knife and command a straw to spin, to the awe of some 300 magic fans and children.
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MANILA, Philippines - Female magicians are a rare species. Gorgeous Canadian half-Pinay magicians are even rarer.
But that’s precisely who Gia Anne-Marie Felicitas aka “Billy Kidd” is.
If I hadn’t been told she was a magician, I would not have suspected it. With her Eurasian features (that would not look out of place on a magazine cover), her edgy jet black bob, and black Doc Martens, Billy Kidd looked like some artsy chick at best.
But her large eyes that glinted with mischief told all.
The 30-year-old illusionist was in Manila last January 23 for the launch of her new show on Discovery Channel, “The Magic of Science.” The 9-part series follows Billy and 3 other (hot) young magicians as they perform street magic in New York, Warsaw, and London.
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