Blaine wakes up to first full day of fast

David Blaine is spending his first full day suspended in a clear plastic box with nothing but water to sustain him in his toughest endurance challenge yet.

The self-styled modern-day Houdini from New York is planning to live for 44 days and nights in a plastic box measuring 7ft deep, 7ft long and 3ft wide, with no distraction, communication or food while dangling precariously over the river Thames in London.