Derren Brown: Channel 4 star finally speaks out on successfully predicting lottery result

express.co.uk:

Channel 4 illusionist has now recalled his intentions for the "clever trick" in a new interview.After the TV favourite successfully predicted the result on his show The Events, the star opened up about what he was hoping to achieve with his move.He was asked whether he thought he would "undermine" the integrity of the Lottery, and he quickly dismissed the idea: “Noooo!

I just thought it would be a fun trick for fans of the show and no one would pay any more attention to that than anything else."The star was then asked whether it was a "con" to which he replied: "Well, it was a trick."A clever trick,” he said during an interview with this week's Radio Times.Derren previously suggested he may have used the Wisdom of Crowds method to predict.