The Events
Back home now, 3 am. The Events are now over and I want to thank everyone who tuned in over the last few weeks. Along the way, 20 million viewers tuned in – far more than any of us ever imagined – and I hope most of you enjoyed the shows. It’s been a real ride: I’ve had loads of fun making them, though I’m still reeling from tonight’s escapade. I called Ben as soon as I could and he doesn’t hate me, so I can sleep tonight.
Thank you again, all of you who watched or even took part in the interactive elements. Loads of love, and sweet dreams.
Derren x
Awesome Cant Wait Till 3D You And See You In The Hawth In February on The 25th
More ‘evidence’ for those who don’t believe the casino scene was live: when Derren first went to the roulette table and watched a few spins the first one landed on 16 (you could clearly hear the croupier say ‘red 16’ and place the marker on 16). Then Derren walked up to the wheel before the ‘second’ spin and the ball was in 13, which is black and nowhere near 16 on the wheel.
oh also for the dumb dumbs, if u walk out of a casina with 180g plus video it for live tv, casino bosses r gonna find out and u arent gonna be allowed to keep it anyway. thats why maybe he choose the 1 out.to do it for real would mean hed have to give the poor chap 180g which hed have to pay out of his own pocket when the casino wanted it back for taking cams n illegal video equiptment in.it could never be done for real unless the casion allowed the camera in but then itd have to be genuine n i doubt theyd give good odds.whatever number derren chose even if it went completely wrong ppl would say he meant it anyway and have lots of evidence for it, we believe what we wanna believe. me i dont know, i think its great oul craic tho
ahh i get it now…
the big red 30…
asking for £’s not euros!
the guy deffo an actor…
omg i was totally sucked in!!!…xxxx
Thank you for ‘The Events’ Derren…I have enjoyed all of them but tonight’s was the icing on the cake. Its 1.30am and I can’t read through 400 posts but my guess is that you were not in a casino in Europe at all lol….. Derren, you are the best and bless you for entertaining us and making life just that little bit brighter
Sue xx
did i miss the point of the roulette miss? or the trick ? please e-mail me back. i play roulette daily and hit single numbers frequently, but miss by one all the time.what was the point of this trick or illusion? i play roulette on machines in the bookmakers, and a real roulette wheelcan be fixed to miss any number by a casino boss.so what was the purpose of all this. i love your shows and admire you greatly, but this has made me thinkits pointless watching. did youmiss delibrately? did you want people to thinkyou would pull it off? what?
Thanks Dezza, you are amazing.
the fact that nobody is even mentioning the way Derren made that viewer forget giving him £5000 is testament to the way he has revolutionized our expectations of illusionists. before Derren came along that kind of trick would have left us fascinated… now it’s just something we are used to seeing him do all the time.
oh and by the way he most DEFINITELY meant to get it wrong. there was a red number 30 written on the side of the truck in the build up to the stunt….
@mark carter “Real” roulette wheels are not fixed in any way. This is the kind of paranoid thinking that is sadly prevalent among roulette players. The wheels are actually checked each day with a spirit level to make sure they are level, in fact there is no kind of jiggery pokery to part you from your money other than the odds being 35-1 when there are really 37 numbers. It’s a random number generator – no more, no less.
OH ALSO DERREN PLS DO A SHOW IN DERRY IRELAND!!! ITS WHERE I LIVE, U COULD MEET ME!!IMAGINE THAT!!! ALSO FREUD SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THE IRISH BEING THE ONLY PPL SOMETHING OR OTHER TO DO WITH PSYCHOLOGY. LET ME GOOGLE IT, AH HERE IT IS “This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.” WAS IN THAT SHIT MOVIE THE DEPARTED, MAKES SENSE AS HE SAID I WANNA SLEEP WITH MY MOTHER TOO. ANYWAY COME TO IRELAND!!
Hello, i still think you are amazing. Can’t wait to see you next year.xx
does anyone have a pic of freuds mother btw? im horny
omg i cant wait til november now you’ve said about the 3d glasses! what could be better seeing what you do best plus you as if your in my living room = WOW lol cant wait to see you in edinburgh in april ! keep up the good work i love you so much my bf is jealous lol
heather xxxxxxx
Loved all the events darren think my best one was been glued to your seats even tho it never worked for me
Hi Derren!
Gotta say, I loved the series this time around, huge fan of your work, however I was just thinking, surely you could have hired a better actor than Ben? I quote, in a really unsurprised/unshocke/emotinally flat voice,
“I’m really surprised. Yeah, I’m really shocked”. Ben is quite funny!
Still loved the show though, big slap in the face at the end but blatantly deliberate to those of us with a brain 😉
Looking forward to seeing you in 3D my friend!
Rich
It was a dodgy looking casino… they would be lucky to turn over £5k in a month, let alone accept a bet of that size – it was empty. Obviously a fake casino, but you would think they would make more effort to make it look real.
Obviously not a live feed either, which wouldn’t have worked anyway. They just did multiple takes.
Also, the post above claims to be from Derren himself, which was made at 10:10pm. Either it’s not from him – another untruth, or it is from him and he’s sat at home on his computer laughing at the stupidity of the masses.
Good entertainment though!
I love watching your shows, its things like that which fascinate me, im currently studying psychology n sociology, you were only one number off which is still incredible!
My 18th birthdays actually in november…friday the 13th…haha! but whenever your 3D show is, i’ll be watching!
keep up the good work 😀
Rach
xo
Dear Mr B,
I suspect you missed on purpose – £175k would have been nothing compared to the casino’s lawsuit. My favourite bit was you making him part with the £5k in the first place – bet you’re in demand now…
Congrats on a fine series. More suggestion and hypnotism, please!
i completely idolize you,
always will
x
unlucky
I haven’t seen tonight’s show yet but i’m sure it’s as good as your other events. looking forward to the 3d, should be interesting. good luck with it all, you’re the best thing on tv young sir!
I have thoroughly enjoyed your latest series of events, and I truly believe they all confirm you to be one of the foremost Mentalists in the world.
Loved the fail tonight, a hidden message perhaps – Gamblers never win?
Keep up the great work.
Rob
IMO It was all a big set up to promote the next show etc…
Derren you ask for ’10 x 500s’ in EUR in the casino, that’s 4,570.91 GBP – that’s too big a detail for you to have overlooked
Check at the end too obvious
Not convinced by poor camera work, looked added….
Number 30 (one off) = Add credibility to rest of the Events by showing accuracy but fallability at the same time?
if that is the case about the red number 30 on the truck then it follows that the feed wasnt live and the whole thing was produced – we just assume all along it was live and accept in good faith –
theres nothing wrong in liein about the show – even when it says no actors or stuges are used – we just accept this as true – but equally it might not be – its like the first trick – with the £20 and the match box – if the guy picked up the note – he wud have given a different instruction and it seems normal for mr confident to win – so no prob – if he looses – the instruction is to open the note and see whats written – he cant loose either way – it was a metaphor to what it was really about tonight – if the roulltee falls on 8 then darrens a star – if it misses – then he was meaning it to miss.
Great publicity stunt to end the series on! It’s certainly got people talking. I still feel as though there’s going to be another twist though…? x
Unlucky Derren, one off, although i’m sure there is an extra trick up your sleeve with that one. Look forward to the next outing.
Pedros
derren mate ur a ledgend dont worry bout bein one off coz technicly u was ryt anyway plus 8s my lucky number my d.o.b is 8/8/88 haha maybe u can do a show about me an d number 8 lol anyway mate ur amazn am tryna get tickets to da liverpool gig!!! man i need to meet u lol cheers for d shows an cnt wait for dis 3d fing anyway laterz
That was one hell of a turn, but waiting 2 months before you show us the prestige? I’m impatient, Derren! Show me now!
aww, it was a good show, you had us on the edge of our seats. Get a good night sleep 🙂 x
love the oops thing at the top of the page btw 🙂
I’m sure he deliberately got it wrong and off by one making a point. He didn’t want to just win £175,000 for some random guy. Sure £20 here and there is alright, but that much is kind of ridiculous.
Plus he did hypnotize him, get the money off him and make him forget. Which could have been all set up. But none the less, that was also part of the show.
But I think the main point of it was to show that he could do it, not to win some one money, but to prove to himself and people that he can predict the number with odds of 37-1
Plus if he did win it, they see the show and it’s pretty illegal to film and in a sense ‘cheat’ in a casino.
Because if counting cards is classed as cheating, what would they call this?
Good show Derren and a great fake-out at the end. You showed you could predict the ball’s trajectory with amazing accuracy withput actually having to give a random member of the public 135k. let’s face it, anyone who can have five grand go missing from their bank account and not notice really doesn’t deserve any more!
International peeps without access to “4” (with channel removed as per your instructions) would also like access to the Events!!! Where – how -when??
Derren, at the moment we saw it hit 30, every single person in my house’s heart broke for you. We all felt so sorry for you. But the Events in general were all amazing. You predicted the lotto! You hypnotised my dad (the same dad who drew concentric circles, easily susceptible?)! The way you predicted the speed by sound alone was mindblowing, if only Westwood wasn’t so annoying :D.
We still love you, looking forward to seeing you soon.
Derren
I was left feeling a lovely warm feeling of bemusement at the brilliant end to your series. I loved it, you are a genius. I am a mature student of philosophy and psychology, so have been watching your latest shenanigans and blog posts with interest.. You are, as many of the posts above this say, legendary, and for me personally, an inspiration.
Well done.. you are like a cosmic joker 😀
Much love
Dawn xx
Loved every second of this season. Glued to my seat EVERY friday. Don’t know how you do it, never want to. Loved the no.30 truck. Reminded me of the kitten in the box. xxx
I dont understand how you can do the squash court trick which was greater than 37-1 odds then not get the roulette trick. Something tells me you meant to get it wrong and that is the part i cant work out. Great series and look forward to seeing your tour up here in scotland.
Derren the last event was the best. It set off a fantastic debate and set my mind tick tocking, Bravo, encore!!
You Were Fantastic.
I Think You Did It On Purpose 🙂
Thanks for some great shows – and I’d still give you £5k of my money…..if only I had it in the first place! Just trying to decide whether to buy an Enigma ticket for Torquay or hold out in case you’re coming to Plymouth! Hmmmm one of life’s dilemma’s! xxx
At the start of the show DB says he uses magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship. Later on he contradicts this by a second “explanation” – he mentally computes the speed & direction of the ball and the wheel. If DB is an honest guy the first explanation is correct, because the second “explanation” is then merely a suggestion. If the second “explanation” is correct (as assumed by most people here before midnight) the first statement is a lie, therefore DB is dishonest. I believe DB is honest.
How do we know that the final few seconds of the final casino episode (showing the 8) was live?
Thankyou for such a brilliant and thought provoking series.
WHat made last night so amazing was that you nearly got it and didn’t. Had you got it, I might have started looking for strings and pulleys and mirrors, but because you missed by one I was ‘Blimey! So he really is doing this maths!’ Amazing stuff, Derren. Just pure genius entertainment – we loved it! Catheirne X
the whole roulette scene inside the casino was prerecorded. the fact that some ignorant person suggested here that there were two real spins of the wheel doesn’t suggest that it isn’t prerecorded. the big red 30 on the side of the truck suggests only one logical conclusion – that it in fact was prerecorded – unless they decided by random chance that the ball would randomly land on the 30 and DB would miss by one.. no chance (no pun intended). The 30 on the truck symbolises that DB really got it right without other people being aware of it. But now we know how its done ie that its camera trickery, just like the first event. we have no reason to believe that fact. instead i am a little disappointed, sure it may have fooled 99% of the viewing audience but not the real fans.
I thought the Roulette trick was amazing. Is there a twist to this though because in the Real Hustle episode where they used the machine to do the calculation, they would bet on the numbers either side of the number the machine predicted in order to more or less guarantee the win. So either there is going to be a twist or you bet on the wrong number on purpose or at least didn’t spread the bet because you were tipped off that the Casino had found out who you were and you didn’t want to get into trouble! Either way, you are an absolute genious and joy to watch on the tv. Please let’s have lots more of you though, this series has been far too short!
Dear DB Thanks for making Fridays worth staying in and congrats to you and Andy (and everyone else behind the series) for making ‘The Events’ unique and I’m sure in time classic TV. Your greatest achievement must be that you’ve got the nation talking about stuff they would normally take for granted and perphaps some will now see that we live lives without questioning beliefs or realising that the devil is the brain. Anyway, enough praise – Why are you so bloody nice! Ben is obviously not short of a few quid (you would have been f****d trying to get me to withdraw £5K from my bank account!) You ruined a perfectly great piece of TV by telling the gob smacked sweaty Ben Sorry I’ts ok… you’ll get the money back. This was a shame, how can we trust you to be devious when your soo bloody nice!
Your show just got posted to the internet for viewers like me in the states.
Nice try Derren. Assuming you were indeed using physics to calculate this outcome, I am very impressed you were off by 1.
You should have probably been a little less cocky and did 5 individual bets on the corners of 4 numbers and win all of them. would have been equally impressive I think. but you’re Derren Brown, I’m sure you were pretty sure you’d get it.
Still enjoyed the show equally as much. If anything, losing this makes you look way more authentic than if you actually won, and I’m sure if you won, many would have thought it was fixed.
i think u were one out on purpose! why did the camera drop back and film the guy holding the fake £175.000 chequeat the end. it dont make sense that you would film him standing there, it makes yourself look bad. good series by the way
well done derren! such a shame you were one off! 🙁 Ben must’ve been pretty p’d off. especially when there was a guy with a massive check of £180,000 just outside the truck! still, one off. That’s pretty remarkable.
Nice one Derren, loved The Events. I think it’s amusing that everyone is disappointed that you missed the roulette number by one position when that’s probably what you wanted to do anyway.
I really don’t think any casino would agree to have Derren predict a roulette number when there’s a chance of them losing nearly £180,000. In the end everyone went away happy, the casino didn’t lose any money, Ben will get his £5000 back and he’s also now been on TV and Derren walks away with his reputation intact after predicting the wrong number. Being out by one isn’t so bad especially when the odds are stacked against you.
Great show!