The lovely Debbie McGee has long been known as one of the most glamorous magician ' s assistants of all time.

Now the graceful star is putting her other skills to use after decades of disappearing and reappearing at the command of her late husband, Paul Daniels.

However, she has many more skills up her sleeve that don’ t involve any magic at all- having started out as a ballet star and gone on to host many TV and Radio shows.

Debbie was revealed to be a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing’ s fifteenth series on 21 August 2017.

Debbie is said to be accomplished in the art of magic herself- reportedly performing at corporate cabaret events in her own right. She has also hosted radio shows, co-written novels, and has featured on shows following Paul’ s death including Celebrity Carry On Barging and Celebrity MasterChef. She was partnered with dance professional Giovanni Pernice- with the show beginning to air on 9 September 2017.

While her ballet past might be different from ballroom, Debbie hoped to give fellow stars including actress Gemma Atkinson and This Morning star Ruth Langsford a run for the glitter ball trophy.

Philip Morris, the one-time circus ringmaster who made gorilla suits in his basement as he built the world’ s largest costume distributorship, died late Sunday at his Mooresville home. He was 83.

A showman to the end, Morris delighted in turning napkins into ghosts and pulling quarters out of kids’ ears even as he struggled with Alzheimer’ s disease in his final months.

“ He’ s up in heaven right now entertaining the angels,” said his son, Scott Morris.“ That was my dad.”

In 1967, the company says, a customer named Roger Patterson bought a custom gorilla suit that was used to film the famously grainy footage of a hairy“ Bigfoot” striding through the northern California woods.

Over the years, the business grew. The basement operation moved to a small shop, then to a retail store on Monroe Road and a 300,000-square-foot distribution center in University Research Park. Scott Morris and his sister Terri Bate now own the business, but their dad worked until about 18 months ago.

With Halloween approaching, it’ s the company’ s busiest time of year. The 250 employees are shipping costumes all over the world.

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