[InOne]

I think he realised but if just playing along. There's lots of things that don't really make much sense.

[Smithy]

thought it was a load of **** tbh

[Glenn.]

Did anyone watch Misfits?

[Marsh.]

Omg, just been reading the thread for this on DS. Absolutely hilarious.

People defending that it's real and some of their reasoning is quite bizarre.

I thought it was fake from when they showed the "secret" footage from him at home. He was too kind of wooden and his reactions and the way he spoke was a little too self conscious as though he knew he was being watched.
Hard to explain but the way people's behaviour is different when they know they're being filmed. Not a very good actor, none of his expressions and lines sound natural, they all sound rehearsed and scripted.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Glenn

Did anyone watch Misfits?

I watched this for the first time ever tonight.

I always thought I was missing out on a good show and would eventually get around to watching it. Switched it on and it's Eli Dingle from Emmerdale wanking and cutting someone's hand off.

Looked ****e TBH.

[Jack_]

WAS STEVEN AN ACTOR?

Despite conspiracy theories and rumours online, Steven is not a stooge, or an actor, or in any way just playing along. Same goes for his family and friends that you see in the programme. They’d all have to be actors too. And all his REAL family – and anyone that knows him – taken away and quietly killed. My shows always provoke a flurry of people insisting it’s all fake, and I’ve come to expect that – exhausting and hurtful though it can be after months and months of love and sweating blood to make such massively ambitious and heart-felt programmes.

I have never, ever used stooges or actors in that way. It’s artistically repugnant, lazy and just unnecessary. And impossible to pull off, as anyone that knows him would of course be able to say so. We spent months setting up Steven’s experience, getting his family on board, and spending a vast sum of money making it as convincing as possible for him, and all our efforts making sure that he experienced a real transformation. To fake all of that with an actor would be pointless. A few theories have sprung up online – firstly that he is a working actor who has appeared in a comedy ad. I’ve seen the ad – that is not Steven. That is an actor with dark eyebrows who does look hilariously like him, but isn’t:

Others have found a picture of Steven with Adam Buxton taken four years ago when Adam was filming a pilot in Steven’s home town. Steven was an audience member and had his photo taken with Adam. Standing with an actor in a photograph does not make you an actor. Adam says “He was not an acting in the pilot. He was in the audience.”

Lastly, concern has sprung up in some quarters because Steven had a profile page on a popular casting site where a lot of people of all ages put themselves up for extra work and crowd/audience stuff for TV shows (this was NOT how we found him but a lot of people sign up hoping to be on TV). He has since changed/tried to remove his profile as he was upset at the negative attention from people who took it to mean he was actually an actor.

Have received this unsolicited comment from Simon Dale who runs Casting Call Pro, the website in question:
“We’ve seen the rumours that a person on Derren Brown’s show is an actor, and all the tweets etc. surrounding it, and the media reporting of it.”
“Steve Brosnan is not, as far as we are aware, a professional actor. He created a profile on our site but never completed it, and didn’t upload any professional acting credits or a professional acting headshot – and so his profile was never ‘live’ on our system as he didn’t meet our joining criteria (i.e. he didn’t have professional acting training or experience).”

Aside from an ‘ensemble’ school production he has never, ever, ever acted. Even if he returns to this early interest in the future (his brother works as an occasional actor so it’s possible he might), it won’t mean he was acting in this show.

All the people who take part in these shows are 100% real. Matt Galley, from Hero at 30,000 ft had similar accusations of being a stooge, from similar conspiracy-driven quarters after his show. Part of the pity of these rumours are that it’s always hurtful for the participants involved who have been through an emotional, transformative experience, are feeling really good about themselves and have been looking forward to the show going out. It’s horrible.

Steven was chosen from thousands who applied to be part of the show, as we explained at the start. He was chosen because he was suggestible enough to allow me to put him asleep quickly, fit our desired profile of someone who took his life for granted, and yet was likeable enough to carry the show – a rare combination. His mum, dad and family are all real too. They are a family living in Buckinghamshire.

On another note – it simply wouldn’t be permissible now to pretend someone was a real member of the public if he or she was acting. Misleading the public in a TV show is a big deal, and a massive lie like that wouldn’t be permitted by the channel. But that’s beside the point: I just don’t use actors in that way. These stunts are not faked. You can just enjoy the show.

Youtube video

see ya later haters.

Fed up with the endless assumption year after year that Derren's work is all staged and fake. So tiresome.

[InOne]

Still not totally convinced, that whole touching his head thing and putting him to sleep was very very dodgy.

[King Gizzard]

He's an illusionist. It's all staged and fake.

It's funny how he's got so worked up that he's had to make a video about it though

[Niamh.]

I thought it was common knowledge all that stuff was fake since he got caught by the balls in the Russian Roulette thing

[Marcus.]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I thought it was common knowledge all that stuff was fake since he got caught by the balls in the Russian Roulette thing

dp you know i like him untill that bit

[Lee.]

I thought Steve looked like Ben

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by bigbrother12

dp you know i like him untill that bit

Yeah, me too

[InOne]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I thought it was common knowledge all that stuff was fake since he got caught by the balls in the Russian Roulette thing

What happened with that?

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Jack_

see ya later haters.

Fed up with the endless assumption year after year that Derren's work is all staged and fake. So tiresome.

He's an illusionist/magician. Of course it's staged and fake.

It's just lately his TV shows stretch believability, making the trick ultimately pointless.

His stage shows are still great though but he should scale back the TV ones, they get more and more idiotic and absurd.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by InOne

What happened with that?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003...ting.channel41

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003...ting.channel41

I'm sure he claimed throughout the show that he was only using blanks, IIRC.

And if you shoot a blank through your head, there's still a chance you could die.

[Vicky.]

I think a blank that close to you would still do considerable damage, if not kill you..not sure though :/

[Niamh.]

hhmmm, I don't think he claimed that at all Jack, it was a big scandal that he denied at the time iirc

Either way I don't believe any of that hypnotizing s**te, 100% set up imo.

[arista]

Jack Edit your title : Final 2/11/12

Ch4HD 9PM Tonight

[Jack_]

There you go arista. Quite looking forward to tonight.

Derren tweeted a pic earlier with Steven and Matt (from Hero At 30,000 Feet) together. Thought it was quite nice.

Taking Matt Galley (from 'Hero') & Steven for lunch. Am slowly building an army. Lovely listening to them swap stories.

[Marsh.]

Even if there is truth to some kind of hypnotism/conditioning it certainly isn't as easy as clicking your fingers and someone instantly falls unconscious.

If he could really achieve it he would be quite a force to be reckoned with, he'll have taken over. lol

[Jordan.]

On now

[GypsyGoth]

[Marcus.]

here we go

[GypsyGoth]

Are you infected BB12?