This just in: Grainy footage appears to back up a Palm Beach Gardens insurance executive's claim he performed magic on TV as a kid with David Copperfield.
The video below seems to show a grade-school version of Olympus Insurance CEO Jeffrey Scott on a children's show called The Big Blue Marble, also featuring an 18-year-old magician named David Copperfield. Olympus is based in Palm Beach Gardens. Scott lives in Jupiter.
Decked out with a top hat and magic wand, Scott gets onstage about 4:20. Copperfield, here sporting especially big 1970s hair before he went on to greater fame and fortune in show business, shows up starting around 1:26.
OIympus Insurance CEO Jeff Scott at an earlier stage of his career.
"At age 10 I did this great magic segment on a PBS children's show called The Big Blue Marble where I played a magic student and this other 18-year-old magician played my teacher," Scott told The Palm Beach in a Monday Meeting interview this month.
The 18-year-old magician, of course, was Copperfield.