Penn Jillette, 71, is the tall, loquacious half of magic duo Penn and Teller.
With their flamboyant blend of illusion, humour and scepticism, the pair have amazed audiences worldwide with outlandish tricks, only to expose how they did them, which earned them the title ‘bad boys of magic’.
Penn, a father of two, lives in Las Vegas with wife Emily Zolten.
In September, Penn and Teller, who have the longest running residency in Las Vegas, were inducted into the Magic Circle – they had been denied membership for 50 years for breaking its cardinal rule by revealing trade secrets.
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