HE HAS been encased in ice and has withstood 35 hours on top of an 80ft pole, but for his next trick David Blaine says that he will endure 44 days without food in a glass coffin by the Thames.
The New York illusionist, 44, will crawl into a clear plexiglass box, measuring 7ft long by 7ft tall by 3ft wide and endure starvation in solitary confinement. While Blaine promises to suffer in silence, he is likely to become London’s most unusual tourist attraction for the six weeks that he is suspended by crane near Tower Bridge.
“It will be a public isolation that I will have to endure by adapting and surviving as an animal would: on instinct,” he said. “There will be no