Spoon bender and former Exeter City director Uri Geller has announced he is leaving the UK.
In an interview and photoshoot with HELLO! magazine, the illusionist and magician revealed he is quitting the UK to return to his native Israel before adding he wishes Roy Hodgson had taken him to Brazil to inspire the footballers with his psychic powers.
The illusionist said he would have been a positive inspiration to the players - who have had a pair of 2-1 losses so far in the finals – if he had been allowed access to their dressing room.
Geller, who was briefly part of the boardroom structure at Exeter City was responsible for bringing Michael Jackson to St James's Park in 2002, now seen by many as a circus episode which was far from the club's finest hour.
Reflecting on England's fortunes, he said: "I would be more than happy for England manager Roy Hodgson to invite me to Rio to help the team, but he hasn't.
"He could have invited me to Brazil, I would have walked into the dressing room and I would have inspired the footballers and it would have something positive.
"He should have flown me out there. I'm still willing to get on a plane today and fly now. But managers are afraid of controversy, usually, and afraid of what the press will say."
Geller – who has posed for the magazine with his 1976 Cadillac which is covered with bent spoons of the rich and famous including Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill – told how he is planning his move back to Jaffa in Israel to a small apartment which they chose because of the beautiful view.
"Ever since I left Israel, in 1972, there was always a spiritual magnetic urge for me to go back," he said.
"I think it's like that for almost every Israeli. If you're born there, there is powerful mystical energy that gradually pulls you back. After roaming the world for 40 years, it's time to go back to where I started."
"You could say I was coming full circle. I was born in Israel and I grew up in poverty. I lived with my mother in a one-bedroom apartment, but when the first spoon broke in my hand >fr 1,8fr 3,8<, I told my mother I was going to make it, and make a better life for her."
The full interview is in the latest edition of Hello! magazine which is out now.
