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How did one woman fool the most famous magic society on the planet? Back in 1991, Sophie Lloyd pulled off the ultimate illusion, tricking the Magic Circle into thinking she was a man. But over 30 years after being unceremoniously kicked out, the Circle has tracked down the former actress to apologise and reinstate her membership. She told Sky News how returning feels like the society has "made good on something that was wrong".
Image: Sophie Lloyd, who tricked the Magic Circle into believing she was a man How did she infiltrate that exclusive group that nowadays counts the likes of David Copperfield and Dynamo as members? In March of that year, she took her entry exam posing as a teenage boy, creating an alter-ego called Raymond Lloyd. "I'd played a boy before," she explained, but "it took months of preparation" to secretly infiltrate the Circle's ranks half a year before it would officially vote to let women in. "Really, going back 30 years, men's clubs were like, you know, just something you accepted.
" Be the first to get Breaking News Install the Sky News app for free The men-only rule had been in place since the Circle was formed in 1905. The thinking behind it being that women..
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