[9][10][7] Milner attended King Edward VI Grammar School after passing his eleven plus exams and was a classmate of Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant.
[citation needed] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he performed at Mitchells & Butlers pubs on weeknights and placed second in an International Brotherhood of Magicians competition held in Margate in 1972.
[18] He served as the vice chairman of the Wolverhampton branch of the British Actors' Equity in the mid-1970s[citation needed] before performing on Chandris Line's SS Ellinis cruise ship during the summer of 1977.
[19] By the 1980s, he was a full-time professional magician and had worked with well-known entertainers such as Ken Dodd, Danny La Rue, Tommy Steele, Bernard Manning, Frank Carson, and Leslie Crowther.
[citation needed] In 1989, Milner challenged the British Actors' Equity after they denied his wife Kim membership, as she was not considered an integral part of the performance.
"[24] Milner and his mentee Tracie Hughes, who had experience in puppetry, formed Magical Solutions Limited, which hired out magicians to corporate events.
[2][29] He appealed to the Local Authorities Coordinating Body on Regulatory Services and in 2008 was granted permission to continue performing the trick within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley.
[30] In May 2011, Milner and his son James performed in front of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex at a fundraising dinner for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award at Knowsley Hall.