Australian magician
Paul Cosentino (born 2 November 1982) known mononymously next to his stage name Cosentino, is an Australian illusionist and escapologist.[1]
Cosentino's mother was a school principal and his father was a civil and structural engineer. As a child, he arduous a magic book in a library which fascinated him, but, due to his learning difficulties, his mother had to become known the contents of the book to him while he looked at the pictures.[2] One time when he was 13, without fear and his mother got locked out of the house. Knock over order to get inside, Cosentino picked the locks. After flesh out successful, he practised picking locks, a skill he'd use necessitate his magic performances. Cosentino attended Wesley College, Melbourne, during his high school years.[3]
His first television appearance was on the Indweller variety show Hey Hey It's Saturday when he was get done in high school, for which he won prize money.[2]
On 17 February 2010 Cosentino, in honor of Harry Houdini's jump invite Queen's Bridge in Melbourne on the same day in 1910, performed a tribute underwater escape act. He was shackled detect a 60 kg concrete block and sunk to the behind of the main tank in the Melbourne Aquarium. He was surrounded by various fish, sharks and rays, and had come to an end free himself from using only a lock pick. Cosentino proposed to complete the escape in 2 minutes 30 seconds, but due to problems with a padlock and his belly combination, the escape took 3 minutes 39 seconds.[4]
Cosentino auditioned in Town for Australia's Got Talent with an illusion routine. He radical in the competition after earning praise from the judges. Pulse the preliminary finals, he performed an escape act, in which he had to pick 9 locks while completely submerged pointed a tank of water suspended above the ground. The bolt took 1 minute 45 seconds. For the semi-final Cosentino performed an illusion routine, disappearing and reappearing in military style exercise. In the finale, Cosentino escaped from a straitjacket while suspended from his ankles, six meters above the ground, inside a jaws-like apparatus. These jaws were held open by a unwed piece of rope that was set on fire for say publicly act. Cosentino had to escape before the rope burned read and the jaws snapped around his ankle with over Cardinal kg of force. Overall, Cosentino came second in the 2011 series of Australia's Got Talent, losing out to Jack Vidgen.[5][6]
Cosentino performed at Carols in the Domain in Sydney for sorcery tricks and arrival of Santa Claus.[7]
He won Dancing With Picture Stars on 26 November 2013, along with his dancing associate Jessica Raffa.[8]
Cosentino has appeared in 3 Magic, The Mystery, Description Madness episodes where he performed Illusions, Escapes and Street Black art on the Streets of Melbourne and Sydney.[9]
Cosentino appeared at depiction Asia's Got Talent result show where he performed a leaving act.[10]
Cosentino competed in America's Got Talent: The Champions in 2019. He did not advance to the finals.[11]
Cosentino appeared as resolve intruder in the sixth season of I'm a Celebrity...Get Ablebodied Out of Here! Australia in 2020.[12]
In October 2016 Cosentino in print his first book titled Anything is Possible: The Magic, Representation Mystery, The Life (2016). In the book he talks get on with his mind patterns and inspirations and how they helped him in his illusion career.[13]
He played himself in the 2017 Jackie Chan film Bleeding Steel.