Illusionist Derren Brown’s love life and religion after trying to ‘train himself out of being gay’

By Nia Dalton Derren Brown once tried to ‘train himself out of being gay' and went to a religious camp to be ‘cured' before turning his back on religion entirely. The British illusionist, who does not claim to possess any supernatural powers, has been performing for three decades and is a BAFTA award-winning entertainer, performing both on television and on stage. Derren was brought up as a Christian and was sent to Bible classes by his parents from the age of five. During his teenage years, he became an evangelical Christian and presented himself as asexual, before deciding that he was an ath…

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