Every afternoon Pasapalabra offers intense duels between the contestants, who fight for a loot that already exceeds one million euros. However, the audience success of this battle of linguistic units is not only due to the dynamic format of the contest. The presence of celebrities is another key element. Every three programs, presenter Roberto Leal welcomes four well-known faces, whose mission is to score seconds in the contestants’ boxes and also display all their sympathy. From November 30 to December 4, there will surely be magic too. And one of the new guests is Jorge Blass.
Jorge Blass is one of the Spanish illusionists with the greatest international projection who is dedicated to stage magic. Jorge Sánchez Blas was born in Madrid 43 years ago (1980) and from a very young age he became interested in the art of surprising the public with the blow of a magic wand.
At the age of six, Jorge fell in love with the tricks of Magic Potagia, Juan Tamariz’s television program, and discovered in one of the booklets of Juan Tamariz’s Magic Course that there was a magic store in Madrid, from which little Little by little he acquired an arsenal of tools to do all kinds of tricks.
The link with the brilliant magician with the top hat, impossible hair and invisible violin became even closer. And he was Jorge’s teacher, when he was 12 years old, at the school that Tamariz has in Madrid.
It didn’t take long for the apprentice to excel in an extraordinary way. Just one year after putting himself in the hands of Tamariz, Jorge Blass became the youngest magician of the Spanish Illusion Society at the age of 13. Since then, his career took off and crossed borders.
Blass has performed throughout the world, from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to the World’s Fair in Shanghai, to India. On many of her show tour stops, she has appeared on the most followed shows in dozens of countries.
In all places, he wows the public with his own tricks, but also his most prestigious colleagues. Not in vain, he has sold one of his illusionist creations to David Copperfield himself.
The commitment to innovation is a maxim, as demonstrated in his show Birlibirloque, in which he introduced cutting-edge illusions with electronic devices. And in Invention, he combined holograms, robots and drones with sleight of hand tricks with mobile phones or cloning with 3D printers.
His face has had quite a presence on national television. He has been the director of magic television programs such as Nada x aqui or Por Arte de Magia and has appeared with his tricks in Zona Disney, Megatrix, Ankawa or Sábado Noche, among others.
He is also the founder and director of the Madrid International Magic Festival at the Price Circus, as well as a patron and solidarity magician of the Abracadabra Foundation, which brings magic to hospitals and disadvantaged groups.
Blass is the author of two books: Magic to Keep Dreaming: From Houdini to Harry Potter, Create Your Own Illusionism, 2003, and The Force of Illusion, 2011), as well as a renowned lecturer.
He has even made his first steps in cinema. In 2010, she had a small role in the film Pájaros de papel, by Emilio Aragón.
In 2017, the Madrid magician Jorge Blass suffered an accident when he was run over in Vigo by a vehicle whose driver tested positive for alcohol. He had to undergo surgery for several fractures in one arm and had a slow recovery in which he could not perform many of his tricks.
