He's the British ____ who walks on water and has hundreds of ____ fans and friends. But he started doing ____ to stop his ____ at school. Steven 'Dynamo' Frayne is no ____ illusionist. During our interview a ____ of cards appears to ____ from the table and land in his hand before disappearing. He ____ talking, stops for a second, then takes the cards from his mouth. As he ____ to me, it's his job and his life's mission to ____ people. He believes that, as we get older, we all want to feel young again and that tricks and ____ can give us that feeling. Dynamo's shows ____ do that. Steven ____ in one of the most dangerous areas in Bradford. Since his ____, he has had a serious ____ illness. That ____ that as a child he wasn't as strong as his classmates. Weak and ____, he was a ____ for bullies. When he was 11, his mum used to send him to school with two older kids, but they didn't ____ him. One day he told his great-grandfather about it, who taught him ____ tricks. From then on, Dynamo's life changed. He ____ to me one of the tricks he learnt to stop the bullying. He asks me to ____ him up, which I do easily. Then he looks at me for less than a second and tells me to do it again. Impossible! I try ____ but can no longer lift him! Once he started doing tricks like this on the bullies, they left him ____. But their fear of him meant that nobody wanted to be near him. So he spent his time in his bedroom practising. The longer you ____, the better you get! Thanks to that ____ and hard work, Dynamo is one of the most famous ____ in the world today, but he's ____ the most modest, ____ person you'll ever meet. He remembers how his ____ really started. When he had to spend six months in ____ because of his stomach illness, it was one of the worst times in his life. He started wondering how people would ____ him if he died. This ____ him to make something of his life. He started doing tricks in the street. He ____ backstage at concerts and did tricks for famous artists such as Snoop Dogg, One Direction and Coldplay. Soon he had a ____ following on social media ____, with tens of millions of people ____ watching his videos. Then came his own TV series which he has since sold to more than 190 countries, ____ 250 million viewers. His ____ to get attention was ____ in 2011 when he ____ people by walking on the River Thames in London. At first, there were just 50 people watching, but soon there were thousands. He had walked ____ across the river when the police stopped him. So, how did he do it? Was there ____ plastic under the ____ of the water? Even when you look more ____ at the images, it's impossible to know. 'I can ____ say that if I started explaining it all,' Dynamo says, 'you'd be so bored you'd be ____ me to stop after a minute.' After all, as he says, ____ is the most ____ part of it. Dynamo's illness has never ____. But he finds that when he's working his ____ hurts him the least. 'The best ____ is an audience. My stomach ____ the least when I'm performing. ____ stops me feeling any ____.' There can't be many people in the world who are so calm and ____ about walking ____ windows or levitating above the tallest building in London. But Dynamo is no ____ person.

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