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A number of people picked up yesterday that Eventful.com, a ticket feed site was listing David Copperfield appearing at The Manchester Apollo in November and December 2010.

This obviously caused a lot of excitement in the Magic world, as this would be Copperfield's first UK appearance for almost 15 years.

Rather than jumping on the bandwagon, we did a bit of searching and talking to those in the know..

Odd fact number one was that nobody that should know David was on the way over, knew anything about this.

Odd fact number two was that the show dates lasted 2 months, and included the normal scheduled Vegas dates on November 28th 2010.

The last oddity was that our source at the Apollo told us:

"No certainly not, we dont have David Copperfield booked on those dates, in fact we already have a confirmed event during that time"

They also went on to say, potentially hinting at a future date:

"We don't even have him down as a potential artist for the venue at the moment, thats not to say we won't, but currently no"

This seems to point to some horrible error that will leave a lot of magicians slightly disappointed.

We also spoke to Chris Kenner yesterday, who is the Executive Producer for David Copperfield, and he confirmed that David was not going to be appearing in the UK during the dates listed on eventful.com

So it appears that UK David Copperfield fans will need to wait, although how long is unclear, as at last years International Magic Convention, during a live video feed David did hint at a 'european' date in 2011/2012.