When it comes to entertaining audiences, father and daughter double act Steve and Deanna Gore have one or two tricks up their sleeve.

Even at the tender age of five, Deanna is an accomplished illusionist.

She started performing magic aged two, has mastered escapology, and is regularly ‘sawn in half’ by her magician dad Steve!

Together, Steve and Deanna perform as Make Believe Magic and are preparing a new routine for Bradford Magic Circle’s show, Hey Presto.

Deanna has learned from Steve, who performs tricks and illusions around their Queensbury home.

“She’s a natural,” said Steve, a past president of Bradford Magic Circle and the Northern Magic Circle.

“She did a routine with me at Bradford Magic Circle’s 2007 Christmas show and you could tell from that moment she loved performing. At the age of three she did escapology and was invited to perform at Northern Magic Circle’s junior day. Aged four she started with illusions and we did a mini cube zag illusion, where I separated her into three – then restored her of course!

“Now she’s working on a new routine with ‘fairy magic’ and illusions, which will be premiered at the Hey Presto show. And she’ll get her own back on me by separating me into two.”

Deanna, a pupil at Shibden Head Primary School in Queensbury, said her favourite illusion was separating Steve in half.

“I love doing magic and illusions with my daddy. I like it that people don’t know how it works,” she said.

* Bradford Magic Circle’s Hey Presto show is at Bingley Arts Centre on Saturday, March 19. Tickets are available on (01274) 432000.