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Debra "Debbie" Ann McGee (born 31 October 1958) is an English television, radio and stage performer who is best known as the wife and assistant of magician Paul Daniels. McGee is a former ballet dancer and, for three years, she was artistic director of her own ballet company. She presents a Sunday morning show for BBC Radio Berkshire. ==Early life and magic career== McGee was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, to an English mother, Lillian 'Bubbles' Howes, and a Northern Irish father, Patrick McGee.〔Index to the Register of Births for England and Wales, Oct-Dec 1958, District=Surrey N., Volume=5g, page=380〕 Her sister is a banker in the City of London and her brother is an accountant. When McGee was young her parents ran a corner shop. Later, her father worked for a large gold manufacturing firm making rings and other jewellery. McGee enjoyed music and dressing up from an early age, so her mother enrolled her in a dance school when she was seven. She attended Our Lady Immaculate RC Primary School in Tolworth, Surrey followed by Tolworth Girls' School, a secondary school also in Tolworth. At 16 McGee auditioned for and won a place at the Royal Ballet School. After graduating, she joined the Iranian National Ballet in Tehran. Aged 19, she became part of the Corps de Ballet and later a soloist, but her ballet career was brought to an abrupt halt by the Islamic Revolution. She was forced to flee the country and returned to the UK with little in the way of money and possessions. Seeking new work she auditioned for the Bernard Delfont Organisation, which was responsible for a number of big summer resort shows and touring productions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Debbie McGee )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】About Debbie McGee )〕 Delfont found her a job performing on stage with magician Paul Daniels in his 1979 summer show in Great Yarmouth. She met Daniels on 23 May 1979 at rehearsals for the show, which were held at a church hall in London.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】Debbie McGee Chats to Us about Her Celebrity Wedding to Paul Daniels )〕 She later joined Dougie Squires's ''Second Generation'' troupe as a dancer, which involved touring Europe with acts including Chris de Burgh and James Last. After winter work in pantomime, McGee joined Daniels again for his 1980 summer season in Bournemouth. She then performed in his London stage show ''It's Magic'', which opened on 10 December 1980 and which, by the time it closed 14 months later, had become one of the longest running magic shows ever to play in the West End.〔 McGee achieved national and international fame through television appearances with Daniels. After seeing her on stage in the West End, BBC producer John Fisher asked Debbie to appear in the BBC One series ''The Paul Daniels Magic Show'', which had begun in 1979. That series continued until 1994 and regularly attracted audiences of 15 million in the UK and was sold to 43 countries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Magicians' Biographies - D )〕 Daniels regularly referred to McGee on his TV shows as "The lovely Debbie McGee", a phrase that entered popular culture as a stereotype for magicians' assistants.〔 Daniels and McGee were married in Buckinghamshire〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Marriages England and Wales 1984-2005 )〕 in April 1988.〔 McGee has performed some magic herself, usually on the corporate cabaret circuit. Debbie McGee's pastimes include golf and she has played in celebrity charity events.〔 She has collaborated with novelist Susan Wilson on a number of books, and she is known for her work with dogs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Debbie McGee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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