Magician formerly known as Dynamo ‘could not have performed again without NHS’
The 42-year-old magician was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in his teens and has battled with his health in recent years.
The magician formerly known as Dynamo has said he would not have been able to return to performing if it was not for the NHS.
The 42-year-old, whose real name is Steven Frayne, was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in his teens and has battled with his health in recent years, having to take a two-year break from his career after falling ill in 2017.
Speaking at Advertising Week Europe 2025 in central London on Tuesday, he said: “In 2023 I had the worst bout of illness to the point where I developed arthritis in my joints, so I couldn’t even hold a pack of cards and I felt like everything I cared about was just being taken away from me.
“But I decided in that moment that I realised the magic is actually in everybody else, in the people that lifted me up, in the NHS that helped me and I started to focus on the magic in other people.
