function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReadyVidible); Michael Carbonaro dropped by The Huffington Post on Wednesday to chat about his hit Tru TV reality magic series The Carbonaro Effect.The show, which kicked off its third season earlier this week, features Carbonaro pulling magic-themed pranks on unsuspecting people while hidden cameras capture their encounters.During a chat with HuffPosts Noah Michelson, the magician, who paid his way through New York University by performing hundreds of magic shows and making regular appearances on The Tonight Show in a segment called Magic Clerk, opened up about how growing up gay affected the way he saw the world and his role as an artist.Ive always known Im gay, he said. It wasnt like I decided to be gay ' I was gay! I didnt think I was gay only because I had learned the word gay was a bad word. Gay was perverted, terrible, horrible, weird and I was like Oh, Im not that but I do like guys, so I must be something else. So for a while I couldnt come to terms with that word.Looking back on his childhood, Carbonaro reminisced that one of his earliest memories was having a crush on Eliot, the main character in E.T.I had a poster of E.T. in my room and I wrote on the poster, really small in the corner, I heart Eliot, he said.Whats neat about that is not only did I write it but I knew to hide it. I had already learned ' I must have been six ' I knew not to tell anyone that.Those feelings of being an outsider and even of shame eventually helped guide Carbonaro to where he is today.Where it fed me as an artist was that right out of the gate you learn everyone is saying the world is this [way but] its not, he said. So you have this sensibility where its like everyone thinks this is whats going on but I think theres more going on. You have an automatic interesting outsider view to what the world [looks like]. I did, certainly, and I imagine most [gay] people who grow up under the American dream and the man and wife and kids [model] would have that same kind of thing.Watch the full interview with Carbonaro above ' which also includes an impromptu magic trick.The third season of The Carbonaro Effect airs on Wednesday nights at 10pm ET on Tru TV. Head here for more info.Check out Carbonaros official websitefor more info and a full list of upcoming tour dates. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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