From Fan to Friend: How I Met—and Befriended—My Childhood Idol

As a kid, I watched him perform miracles on TV. As an adult, I got to call him a friend—a dream come true, and beyond. This is the story of how we became friends before he took his final bow.

On Monday 7^th July, the world of magic lost one of its most iconic magicians: Wayne Dobson.

As a kid in the early 1990s, I would sit in anticipation to set the video recorder to tape his ITV shows, ‘A Kind of Magic.’ I would watch it live and then re-watch the recording over and over again. Wayne’s popular television series ran for three seasons in the p…