TRICK OR EAT
Derren’s mind control fixed childhood ‘fads’
PICKY Derren Brown tricked himself into liking “99%” of food – by eating a salami pizza.
The star was a “chronically fussy eater” as a kid but found he could trick himself after ordering the wrong pizza. Brown, 51 – who is best known for performing mind control stunts on the public – said blue cheese and mushrooms are the only two foods he still cannot force himself to like.
He told the Midnight Meets podcast: “I managed to wean myself off a lot of food I didn’t like by tricking myself.
“I’d ordered a pizza, I was starving, and it said sausage and I thought it just meant sausage but of course it meant salami, and I didn’t realise. “I thought rather than waiting for the salami taste to kick in I’ll go quietly in my head ‘mmm, this is lovely.’
“And it worked, so I started doing it with everything. “I managed to cut through 99% of things I thought I couldn’t stand. It’s just blue cheese and mushrooms now.”