Cosentino spills the magic beans Magician Cosentino will play at Jupiters Casino. Australia's dreadlocked prince of magic is selling his secrets. "This is good stuff . . . these are things I did in my TV shows," Cosentino says between Dancing with the Stars rehearsals and prepping for live shows on the Gold Coast this weekend. The 30-year-old grand illusionist has spent a year creating a magic kit for children that will be released just in time for Christmas. The kits contain detailed instructions for more than 100 tricks, from fundamentals such as the cups and ball and linking rings to modern flourishes such as levitating cards, making candy disappear and bending spoons. "I'm giving away really good secrets to people who are genuinely interested in learning how to perform good magic," Cosentino says. In the hands of someone who knows and practises their craft, it could look exactly the way it looks when I do it on my TV show. The second of Cosentino's television specials aired on Channel Seven in early October with a third due to screen before the end of the year. It's the station on which he first shot to prominence as runner-up on Australia's Got Talent in 2011 and where he now spends his days rehearsing routines for Dancing with the Stars, in between touring his live show around the country. "I'm taking Radox baths and a lot of Deep Heat is going on," he laughs. The schedule is so tight. But Cosentino (first name Paul) wouldn't have it any other way, saying his reality-show success helped him capitalise on a career plan that he had spent years developing. I was very ready to launch off it . . . I had a strategy to use it. Cosentino hopes his magic kits will inspire future escapists, sleight-of-hand experts and illusionists - boys and girls alike. He says magic tends to tempt pre-adolescents and credits that in part to the sense of power and control performing tricks can bestow. Cosentino says there are talented female magicians working, but the industry is still dominated by men. "I just don't think there's been as much opportunity," he says. Cosentino will perform his show The Magic, The Mystery, The Madness at Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast on November 1 and 2.