Matt Tarrant

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Matt Tarrant
Born
Matthew Tarrant

(1987-04-18) 18 April 1987 (age 37)
NationalityAustralian
Education Brighton Secondary School [1]
Occupations
  • Magician
  • mentalist
Years active2006–present
Television
Website matt-tarrant.com

Matt Tarrant (born 18 April 1987) is an Australian magician and mentalist known for his touring stage shows and as a contestant on Australian Survivor. [1]

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Early life

Tarrant grew up in Adelaide, South Australia and studied at Brighton Secondary School from 2000 to 2004. [1]

Career

Tarrant began performing at the age of 18 and established his career at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, winning the People's Choice of the Adelaide Fringe award for five years consecutively. [2] [3] [4] His debut solo show in 2016, Honestly Dishonest, received generally positive reviews and won the Best Magic awards in 2016 and 2017 at the festival's weekly awards. [5] [6] [7] Deception ran for an entire season at the Adelaide Fringe 2014 with his performing partner Vinh Giang. [8] [9]

In 2017, Tarrant toured Australia, starting with the Fringe World Festival in Perth, [10] followed by the Adelaide Fringe Festival. [6] Tarrant won the Adelaide Fringe Pick Of the Fringe award in 2019, one of 29 prizes awarded at the closing night ceremony. [11] In January 2023, Tarrant became a board member of the Adelaide Fringe Foundation, which donated grants to artists and disadvantaged communities. [12]

Television appearances

In 2016, Tarrant appeared on the third season of Australian Survivor , which was the first series of the Network Ten iteration of the show, finishing in fifth place. [13] [14] [15]

In 2022, he competed on the tenth season of Australia's Got Talent and was eliminated as a semi-finalist. [16]

Personal life

An avid Port Adelaide Football Club supporter, Tarrant became an official celebrity ambassador for the club in 2014. [17]

As an Australian with limited knowledge of quality English football clubs, Matt has mistakely supported Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and is yet to witness the club achieve anything in all the years he has committed his unwavering support.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Spain, Katie. "Introducing: Matt Tarrant, magician" . The Advertiser . News Corp Australia. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Matt Tarrant: From Survivor to FRINGE WORLD". So Perth. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Matt Tarrant: Happy". Adelaide Fringe . 17 December 2020. Archived from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  4. ↑ Tarrant, Matt (21 May 2012). "Matt Tarrant – Adelaide Magician". MindBlown. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  5. ↑ Keen, Suzie (24 February 2017). "The survival skills of a mentalist". The Independent Weekly. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Matt Tarrant's magic show is wizzard". OutInPerth . Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Matt Tarrant – Honestly Dishonest". 2 November 2016. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  8. ↑ Aird, Lachlan (10 December 2013). "Deception: Vinh Giang and Matt Tarrant". The Adelaide Review. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  9. ↑ McDonald, Patrick. "Fringe duo conjures up art of deception". The Advertiser. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  10. ↑ Gartner, Annelies (9 January 2017). "Survivor star's magic move". The West Australian. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  11. ↑ "2019 BankSA Fringe Award Winners". Adelaide Fringe . Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  12. ↑ "Adelaide Fringe Foundation Board Members". Adelaide Fringe . 9 May 2023. Archived from the original on 18 May 2023. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  13. ↑ Lee, Ashling. "Matt Was Probably the Most Underrated Castaway on Survivor". PopSugar . Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  14. ↑ Gartner, Annelies. "Australian Survivor felt a 'little like high school'". Yahoo7. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  15. ↑ "I was having horror dreams". news.com.au . Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  16. ↑ Laidlaw, Kyle (24 October 2022). "Powerful performance strikes gold on Monday night's Australia's Got Talent". TV Blackbox. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  17. ↑ "For Matt Tarrant, watching the Power is just magic". Port Adelaide Football Club. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
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