Derren Brown completed a live stunt tonight during the celebrations for his 20-year anniversary on our screens.
Involving the audience at home, viewer Rihanna was spirited away from her London flat with her friend to meet with Derren at his filming location and play a little game.
The set-up was simple: there were three coloured cups and one four-inch nail. Rihanna’s friend had to simply (behind a screen, so no-one could see) place the nail under one of the cups and swap their positions.
Rihanna then chose which two cups – in this case, the colours blue and green – that she had Derren were going to slam their hands down to make sure there was no nail underneath.
In the end, it was proved that Rihanna was right and the nail was hidden under the red cup. Derren explained that this was thanks to some subliminal messaging that was shown throughout the show, with repeated references to the colour red and the number one (given the cup was placed in the first position).
But it seemed that a lot of fans at home were already plugged into their inner Sherlock Holmes and anticipated the twist. This is Derren Brown, after all – you have to pay attention.
One fan wrote: ‘Derren Brown was easy tonight. [He’s] been playing with that red mug all evening and put the girls in a red cab.
‘I like the way we can easily be manipulated, our minds can easily be swayed by momentum.’
Another commented: ‘There has been so much red throughout the show,’ and to prove a point, Derren even showed viewers at home just how much he had been manipulating our minds.
He had been drinking from a red cup in all the pre-recorded VTs, there were lingering shots of the colour red and the two participants were even picked up from their house in a red taxi.
Basically, we fell for it, sorry.
That’s not to say that it was all smooth sailing, however.
Earlier in the show, the live feed seemed to get hit by some technical difficulties as the video seemed to cut out and crackle at various points.
Derren explained later in the show that they were having some trouble with satellites, but that didn’t stop many at home wondering if that was part of the trick all along…(although turns out, it wasn’t).
Derren Brown: 20 Years of Mind Control aired on Channel 4.
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