Were Jayne Wallace’s terrible psychic readings on ‘This Morning’ even worse than we thought?

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Some of our readers may have come across self-proclaimed psychic medium, Jayne Wallace. She runs a business called ‘Psychic Sisters’ in the Selfridges department store in London, where she has gathered quite a following – especially amongst the celebrity clientele. Indeed, the main selling point on her website are some glowing testimonials from the likes of Kim Kardashian, Kate Hudson, and…...erm…Matthew Wright.       

I must mention here that celebrity endorsements of psychics should be taken with a very large pinch of salt. Famous people lead very public lives, particularly in the case of someone like Kim Kardashian, who is never off the front pages of tabloid newspapers and magazines. It’s therefore very easy for psychics to find out information about them before the readings.

But what happens when psychics give readings to celebrities whom they can’t see?

Well, back in May 2012, Jayne Wallace did just that when she appeared on an episode of the daytime show, ‘This Morning’. You can see what happened in the video below. However, you may be cringing through your fingers by the end of it. To describe it as a car crash would be the understatement of the year.

Watching it again, though, I was struck by a number of predictions that Jayne made in addition to her on-screen blunders. As it has now been seven years since her appearance, I thought it would be a good idea to check out how many of them came true.

Let’s just say the results were ‘interesting’. Please read the following transcript and my analysis to find out more!

Key

Reading in normal text

Names of people and descriptions of what happens on screen in blue

Commentary by me in red

and parts that I wish to draw attention to in bold

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Holly Willoughby: Now, she’s read for celebrities such as ‘The Saturdays’ and Gwyneth Paltrow, making Essex girl, Jayne Wallace one of the UK’s most celebrated psychics.

Phillip Schofield: Well, today Jayne claims that she can reveal key personality traits about our three mystery celebrities just by holding objects that belong to them, including a watch, a flower, and a croissant. We’ll start with a couple of other objects, so if you grab a hold of that one there….and what do you say about the person?

Jayne: (picking up an object from the table) Can I just say something quickly? I haven’t read for Gwyneth Paltrow.

Holly: Oh, have you not?

Jayne: No.

Phillip: Well, you should.

Jayne: I don’t know where…yes, I should. If you’re there, Gwyneth, come visit! But yeah, I just wanted to say that.

Phillip: Yes. That came from your press!

Jayne: My press?

Phillip: Yes, absolutely. See, never read your own press.  

Jayne: No.

Holly: Now, you know…you know that that’s my ring because we showed it to you this morning.

Jayne: Yes. Yes, exactly.

Holly: So…but you don’t necessarily know about me.

First red flag here! Holly is admitting that prior to filming, Jayne was shown her ring and told that she would be giving Holly a reading on camera. Theoretically, this would give Jayne plenty of time to plan what she was going to say – or even to do some research on Holly. Just a quick Google check or a glance at Holly’s Wikipedia page would have been enough to provide her with enough personal information to regurgitate it back in the reading. So, sorry, Holly – she’s not going into this reading completely blind, with no idea about you at all.  

Jayne: I just feel emotionally, as I link in, the ring picks up a lot of your energy, a lot of what’s going around you in your present-day life. I’m seeing for you big changes on an imminent level. It almost feels…this feeling of “I’m going to start to look at my future. I’m going to start to build on my family.” And it’s also telling me about new babies. I know you’re a mum already, but it’s about…

Here we go! Jayne gives the game away here by saying she KNOWS that Holly already has children. So, either Holly mentioned this to Jayne previously or Jayne found this out by doing some research. Jayne has also decided to go for a fairly high-probability prediction. It’s not a huge stretch of the imagination to suppose that a married woman of around 30 might want to have another baby one day.

Holly: Oh, my goodness!

Phillip: Not having another one!

Jayne: …more children…

Holly: Four?! 

Jayne: More children.

Holly: Oh…I thought you said four...panic!

Phillip: Does it say when?

(Jayne nods)

Holly: Does it? Tell me! Do tell. I don’t mind…

Jayne: To me, I feel…not that you’re broody, but there’s this feeling of “I don’t feel complete with the two babies that I’ve got”.

Again, this shows that Jayne was NOT completely unaware of Holly’s personal life prior to giving the reading. Either Holly told her that she already had two children or Jayne did some reading up on her beforehand.

Holly: Okay...

Jayne: …and it feels you’re becoming more motherly, trying to spend a lot more time with the children, with the family, and at the minute, it’s this feeling of “Oh, one more wouldn’t hurt”.

Holly: I definitely would like another one eventually. Eventually…

Phillip: Does it say when?

Jayne: I feel on an honest level, probably by March, you’ll be pregnant of next year. So, within a year.

Remember this date. Jayne is claiming that Holly will be pregnant in March 2013.

Phillip: Ohh! I don’t believe it!

Holly: (laughing) I won’t, I won’t.

Jayne: And you know what? It will be the best thing that will ever happen to you. She’ll be a shining little girl.

Holly: Another girl?

Jayne: Another girl. It’ll be amazing.

Holly: Wow. Well, there you go.

So how did things pan out? Did Holly have a baby girl in 2013? Well, I think things are best summed up by this tweet Holly posted in September 2014.

So, even Jayne’s high-probability prediction was incorrect – wrong year, wrong sex. Not a great start.

Phillip: Now, have a look at that. (Hands over another object) Obviously, if that’s Holly’s, then that’s mine because there’s nothing that spends more time probably with me - other than my family - than my phone.

Jayne: You are a different character. I feel there’s a really strong confidence about you. You’re very driven. You know exactly what you want. You know exactly where you’re going. But I also see this insecure side where nobody actually really knows you on an emotional level.

I highlight this because it’s a VERY common thing that psychics do. They mention two opposite characteristics (in this case “really strong confidence” and an “insecure side”) – and by doing so, cover all bases. Also take note of how often Jayne says “driven” or “emotionally/on an emotional level”. They crop up A LOT in her readings – indicating that she has a standard script that she sticks to.

Phillip: Doing a poker face.

Jayne: ….so, I kind of feel on the inside, there’s a lot going on. On the outside, it’s very structured, isn’t he? You know what he’s like. And I feel within career, there’s so much more to you. And I want to put you on a plane. And I want to say like, “The world is there. Go and see. And go and explore.” So, I feel there’s major opportunities coming from other countries and then you’ve got to decide; “Do I want this?”

Jayne has such a garbled way of speaking. How exactly can a person be “structured”? Look up the word in a dictionary. It means to be organised or arranged in a logical way. A piece of furniture or a plan can therefore be well structured. But it makes no sense to talk about a person being “structured”.   

In terms of the actual reading, Jayne went for another future-related prediction – something that could not be corrected on the spot by Phillip. But, seven years later, how did she actually do?

Well, a quick look at Phillip’s profile on imdb indicates no evidence of major opportunities from other countries. He still works for ITV and presents ‘This Morning’ together with Holly, four days a week. There’s been nothing else of particular note since that reading, other than occasional guest appearances on shows like ‘Coronation Street’ and a one-off programme about Prince Philip – neither of which Jayne predicted.

I’m therefore calling this another fail.  

Holly: (inaudible) …Nevada, are you?

Jayne: Yeah, you could!

Phillip: (laughing) I’ve got some puppies I’ve got to visit.

Jayne: …go work in the desert.

(laughter and cross talk)

Phillip: Let’s get on with our others, here. Let’s see what you’ve got to say about them. Right, here you go. First object.

Holly: This is a watch, obviously. Not giving away anything.

Phillip: So, what do you see? Now, the person…I actually…(looking at Holly)...you’ve accidentally spotted two of them.

Holly: I’ve spotted two.

Jayne: I haven’t seen any.

Phillip: I don’t know who’s behind there. So, this is our first mystery celebrity.

Jayne: I feel a real strong creativity with her. She’s passionate….

Phillip: You know it’s a her?

Jayne: Yup. It’s a feminine watch

Phillip: A lady’s watch. Right!

Jayne: Yes, of course.

Keep this in mind. Jayne says here that she thinks it’s a woman because it’s a feminine/lady’s watch.

(Long close-up of the watch)

Jayne: I feel a real strong passion. She’s driven, she’s artistic, she’s creative. I get words and writing. And she’s – not flamboyant – she’s very sophisticated, but I feel that there’s a very strong sort-of flamboyance about her. And an amazing friend. She’s very loyal and I feel with her very much what you see is what you get.

Note that’s the second time Jayne’s used the word ‘driven’ to describe someone in a reading. The rest of this is a load of vague, contradictory waffle. How exactly can someone be “not flamboyant”, but have a “very strong sort-of flamboyance” about themselves?

(Silhouette of a man appears in the background followed by a behind-the-screen shot of Lionel Blair)

Oops! Ha ha ha!

Phillip: What you see is what you get? Loyal?

Jayne: Warts and all. She’s as you see her. That’s how she is.

Phillip: So – career? What sort of career? Career could be anything

Jayne: Careerwise – I’m going to say writing, creative. So she’s somebody…either she’s got a book or…it feels….this feeling of writing..

(Lionel shakes his head behind the screen)

Nope. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Lionel, he was a dancer and choreographer in the 1960s, before becoming more well-known as a TV personality on shows like “Give us a Clue”. You can read more about him on his Wikipedia profile here.

Jayne: I don’t feel actress. I just feel “I wanna write” or…she’s very good with psychology.

Wrong again. Lionel obviously isn’t a woman, but he has occasionally acted in films and TV series. However, he’s not a writer and I can’t find any connection with psychology.

Holly: Ah, okay….

Jayne: She’s quite analytical in a way and a very, very deep thinker.

Phillip: Anything else that would pinpoint her? For her to say “Oh, yes. That’s a very personal thing.”?

Jayne: I think homelife is happy…erm…She’s…I would say grounded, safe, and secure. That’s how I see her. There’s certain areas that I can’t mention. There’s certain things that I can’t say. But I feel for me…it feels really, really great. She’s a good person.

A very vague statement. And one that is likely to be true for many people.

Holly: Okay.

Phillip: Let’s bring this person in. In you come. Who is that person? 

Jayne: I’m no good with hidden cameras.

Holly: It’s a man!

(Screen draws back revealing Lionel)

Phillip: It’s a man!

Jayne: Oh, he is a woman! Oh, I don’t mean that rudely!

No, he isn’t! What are you on about?

(Jayne stands up to greet Lionel)

Phillip: It’s a man! In you come.

Jayne: (inaudible)…gentle and sensitive.

Oh, I can see where this is going. See below.

Holly: Welcome, welcome, welcome. Come and take a seat!

Phillip: Have a seat, Lionel. How lovely to see you!

Phillip: So major gender issue there.

Holly: So, obviously you are not a female.

Lionel: (to Holly) No. Not at all.

Phillip: So – writing?

Lionel: No.

Phillip: Don’t write.

Jayne: Totally wrong.

Phillip: No, no. Wrong there. What were the other things that you mentioned?

Lionel: I don’t know. (Looking at Jayne) What did you mention?

Holly: Family life?

Jayne: Sensitive, gentle.

You did not mention either of those characteristics during the reading! You only said them after Lionel was revealed to be the mystery celebrity. And now you’re trying to make out that you thought he was a woman because he’s “gentle and sensitive”? Bit patronising. And actually, he doesn’t appear to be either of those things if you take a look at this clip from ‘Celebrity Big Brother’.

Lionel: Family? Well, I’ve been married 45 years. I’ve got three children…

Jayne: Aw!

Lionel:....three grandchildren. And when my mother died, she only left a little bit of money.

Jayne: (interrupting) So, he said it. I weren’t allowed to say it.  That was what I was linking with!

I’m calling BS on this. Look back at the transcript. You clearly said that you thought the mystery celebrity was a woman because it was a feminine/lady’s watch.

Phillip: (Sounding unconvinced) Well….

Lionel: And anyway, the money that she – I wasn’t going to spend it. I bought that watch.

Jayne: That may be why it’s gentle and feminine.

Again, I’m calling BS on this for the reason stated above. It sounds like Jayne is desperately trying to redeem this disastrous reading.

Phillip: That’s a lovely story. But that was a major miss, I have to say.

Jayne: Yeah, major miss. I’m sorry.

Phillip: You couldn’t be further wrong there. Thank you, Lionel. It’s lovely to see you.

Lol! I don’t think Phillip is buying her attempts to claw this one back – and Jayne eventually gives up and admits this too.

Holly: Lovely to see you.

Phillip: Always a pleasure!

Lionel: And you too! Holly, lovely to see you.

Phillip: Thank you very much. Thank you.

(Jayne hands Lionel back his watch)

Phillip: You may have that as well, yes.

(Lionel gets up and walks off camera)

Holly: Let’s move on to our next item. Where are we going next? Which one?

Jayne: Flower

Phillip: We’re going onto the rose now.

Holly: Flower. So, this is a yellow rose.

Jayne: (picking up the rose) Okay, with flowers, you look at the colours, you work with the smell. It’s actually a very, very beautiful flower and it’s actually very, very well formed. And I would say this is significant to that person.

I’d say it’s more significant to the condition of the rose bush, even with my minimal knowledge of botany and horticulture.

(Camera shows a behind-the-screen shot of Sarah Greene)

Jayne: But I also feel there’s a few emotional issues going on because the petals are fallen a little bit.

Holly: Right

Jayne: And I feel that’s more about her past. I feel it’s more about where she’s been, where she’s going. So, I’m still going to say it’s a lady. I feel in the middle (fingering the centre of the rose), there’s a lot of surprises to come and, as the flower unfolds, it’s just looking at the individual petals, but I’m also seeing lots of loose things going on inside.  And I think because of that, I feel she’s looking at really severe changes in her life, but in a good way.  

Holly: In what area?

Jayne: I’m going to say more about career. I’m going to say more about within herself, it’s more about the career.  It’s really about new ambitions.

A lot of vague waffle here about flowers and emotions. Then, there’s a bit at the end about major changes in her life – but good ones related to her career. Keep this in mind for later.  

Phillip: Okay, let’s bring her out and you can reiterate all these things to the person. Who is our mystery celebrity?

Holly: Who is it?

(Screen draws back revealing Sarah).

Phillip: Ahh- ha ha! It’s Gorgeous Sarah! 

Holly: Lovely to see you!

Sarah: (Stepping over to greet Phillip) Thank you, thank you. (to Holly) Sorry.

Phillip: Hello, Sweetheart! (Exchanging kisses with Sarah) How are you, Gorgeous?

Sarah: (to Holly) It’s a few wives back, you understand! (laughter)

Phillip: So, just reiterate those points there. Could you hear back there?

Sarah: I could just about hear, yes.

Phillip: Was any of that accurate?

Sarah: The reason the petals…when I picked it this morning, it was a few hours ago and they were absolutely perfect. I wanted to get the most perfect one as I’m very, very fond of this little…these two little rose trees that I’ve got outside my kitchen door. And, of course, it’s gone a bit...you know, it’s come in the car and it’s gone a bit funny.

Yup, you’ve said it. All flowers will wilt once they’ve been picked – especially if you don’t put them in water. Nothing to do with emotional issues in Sarah’s past.

Jayne: But also, she’s…you’re very spiritual, you know that.

Sarah: Am I?

Lol! The tone in Sarah’s voice seems to indicate the opposite.

Jayne: And you have a lot of…I feel a lot of feelings for people. You care and worry about what people think and people feel.

(Shot of Phillip with a very sceptical look on his face)

Jayne: And I still…I feel emotionally it’s more about...for you it’s about…I just almost want to pluck the petals out and give them to you.

What a weird thing to say!

Sarah: Do you?

Jayne: Don’t know why.

Sarah: Why is that?

Jayne: Because I think you’re a flowerer and that’s how people see you.

Holly: Ooh. There you go.

Phillip: There you go. There you go. Thank you very much indeed.

Sarah: Thank you. Now I move off? Yes? (to Jayne) Well, good luck with the next one. Thank you for that. Thank you. I shall clear.

(Sarah gets up and walks off set)

Sounds like Sarah wasn’t too impressed with Jayne. Frankly, it wasn’t much of a reading as the most that Jayne could come up with were vague references to positive career changes. Come to think of it, this was the same thing that Jayne told Phillip in his reading!

To be honest, Sarah’s career hasn’t been notable for decades. She used to appear regularly on TV until the early 1990s, presenting children’s shows like ‘Blue Peter’ or ‘Going Live!’ with Phillip. But after that, things went quiet – and she now only turns up occasionally on our screens. A look at her imdb profile indicates that this has pretty much remained the same for the last seven years.

There WAS one major change that did occur in Sarah’s life. However, it wasn’t a good one and it wasn’t related to her career. Sarah’s husband of 25 years died in 2015, following complications from heart surgery.

Strange how Jayne didn’t predict that.   

Holly: (handing over final item to Jayne) And then we have a croissant. So, let’s have a look how you’re going to do this time.

Jayne: I don’t know how I’m going to hold this. I get a very strong male influence from this. I feel he’s strong, he’s very structured. Erm...I feel emotionally, there’s a lot of happiness around him. He’s very…I would say gifted in so many different areas.

Note how Jayne used that word “structured” once again. What is she on about? Also bear in mind what she says about “a lot of happiness around him”.

(Camera shows a behind-the-screen shot of former X-Factor contestant, Johnny Robinson)

Jayne: So, I’m going to say he’s a man who likes to do a lot of different things within his life and I see for himself…I don’t know…I just get really…in a way new channelling of energy as well. I still want to say ‘writing’, so I don’t know if I was wrong because maybe they’ve all muddled themselves up, but I still feel there’s a writer amongst them all.

Phillip: Let’s have a look. Is it a writer? Is it a strong man who knows his own mind? Let’s have a look. In you come.

In a word, no! No offence to the guy, but you won’t see him competing in the Mr. Universe contest.

Holly: Not strong enough to open the door.

(Screen draws back to reveal Johnny. Everyone bursts out laughing.)

Holly: Hello Johnny!

Jayne: (standing up to greet Johnny) How are you? He’s the girl! He’s the girl!

No, he isn’t! And he isn’t a writer either.

Johnny: I was going to bring a banana, but I didn’t want you to slip up on the reading, so I had a croissant.

Holly: So, writing? Writing? Any writing? You writing any music?

Johnny: I’m doing some lyrics, Holly.

Holly: There you go.

Johnny: I’ve been writing some lyrics.

Jayne: And sell them to other people.

Johnny: I could try! Andrew Lloyd Webber!

Jayne: Excellent!

Johnny: Or something like that. I don’t know.

This really is clutching at straws. I admit I had to look this guy up because I hadn’t heard of him before. Turns out he’s a part-time drag queen and was one of the ‘joke acts’ on the X-Factor back in 2011. Since then, he’s pretty much faded from the public eye. He’s certainly not had any hit records and Andrew Lloyd Webber doesn’t appear to have bought his lyrics.

I did manage to locate this video, which caught up on his life eight months ago. In it, he confirmed that nothing much has happened. The one interesting thing that he mentions is that he suffered a long period of depression at the time of the X-Factor (which was not long before the reading took place) because of the death of his father from lung cancer and two brain tumours.   

Therefore, Jayne’s claim that “there’s a lot of happiness around him” would appear to be wrong.

That’s 5/5 fails

Holly: Very good.

Phillip: Well, there we go. This is the…this is the book. (holding up a book with Jayne’s face on the cover) It’s ‘My Psychic Stories’. True stories…true stories of spirit contact. There we go. That’s Jayne’s book. Thank you very much indeed.

Jayne: Thank you very much.

Phillip: (to camera) Love to know what you think about all of that.  

If you want my honest point of view, Phillip, I think that Jayne Wallace has all the psychic ability of a dustbin. I’ve seen some truly abysmal psychic readings in my time – but hers just might be the biggest turkeys of them all.  

My advice to anyone reading this is to save your cash. If this performance is anything to go by, the book isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. And in my opinion, there would only be one bigger waste of money. (See below).

Did we catch Thomas John: Manhattan Medium posting a faked testimonial?

##UPDATE##
With Thomas John currently in the media after he was exposed by Susan Gerbic, I thought I would re-publish our article that was originally published on 12th April 2018, whereby we exposed the fact that he had published a fake testimonial. Enjoy

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I had an interesting email from someone concerned about Thomas John, they believed that he had printed a faked testimonial. So I checked it out.

Click the image to see it larger.
The original post was posted here.
https://www.facebook.com/MediumThomasfans/posts/1651038754963338

Now when you click that link you get.

Luckily I copy and pasted it before he removed the fake testimonial.

I received a marvelous e-mail today from a woman I gave a reading to about 6 months ago. What an amazing transformation because she was open to messages from Spirit!
Dear Thomas, 

About 6 months ago, I had a reading with you. My sister had gifted it to me. It was by the phone---I'm not sure if you remember, I was the one who had just come back from Ireland, and we spoke about Ireland. 

When you gave me my reading, I have to be honest, listening back on the tape, I was very difficult with you and I am not sure why I was like that. I noticed that you were getting very specific details and I was not being helpful to you at all. I am sure you don't like people to tell you lots of extra details, but I truly felt my energy I was being difficult intentionally. 

The focus on my reading was speaking to my daughter, who passed away at 19 years old. She was my only daughter and we were VERY close---like best friends.
There were so many amazing things you validated! To be honest, I was skeptical. My mind went to a million places---did he Google me? Did he guess things? Did my mother tell him things? Does he have a way to spy on me? YES....I went crazy for a second! Lol! 

When we ended the reading, I had so many emotions---validation, happiness, sadness, excitement, curiosity. I will even admit that I "Googled" you and I saw you had some trouble in your past. This made me MORE skeptical. 

However about a month ago, I decided to listen to my reading again and the most amazing thing happened to me. While I was listening to the reading, you said, "I see a purple bear with a bow on it." I didn't validate it, but you said, "I literally see you finding it in the weirdest of places!" The day before I re-listened to my reading, I was going through my daughters items and I came across a purple bear. It was inside of her coat pocket. To be honest, I have no idea how or why it got there. I am not sure. I am attaching a photograph. 

Another amazing thing happened. You told me about a "plastic rectangle thing, two of them, attached together, with hearts on them." Again, when you said this to me, I was like WTF......two days ago, FOUND those in my daughters stuff! Yup! Exactly as you said......attaching pics of both!!!!!!! 

Thomas, I will forever be a believer in you and I know that you have a gift that is beyond anything I have ever experienced. Thank you for continuing to share and please, keep up your amazing work. You have healed the heart of this very sad Mother!
Thank you so much, Carin S.
West Bloomfield MI

Before I posted this article, we knew that as soon as I did, he would delete the post as he would have been found out, and then he will simply deny all knowledge, and/or block anyone who questions him about it. So we thought it might be worth sending private messages to some of his followers, letting them know what he had done, so they could see for themselves. Of course the risk being one of them challenges him and he removes the testimonial, and that is what he did.

But so far I have not actually proven the testimonial was faked have I? Well read on....

Now the testimonial itself is the typical thing that mediums publish as if to prove what they do is real. But us skeptics, we know better don't we!

Well the person who emailed me regarding this pointed out the bear picture is actually from an Ebay listing.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Russ-Bears

But what about that bookmark?

Well a quick reverse image search on google, and it is literally everywhere, loads of posts on Pinterest.

So what does this tell us?

Well there are two possibilities.

1. Thomas John just made up the testimonial, found those two unconnected photos, made up a nice little story to fit them together, and published them as proof of his magical powers.

2. Someone emailed Thomas John pretending that he had given them a spot on reading, and found photos that would match up to what he told them.

Personally I suspect number 1, as that is the most obvious, but even if it is number 2, that would only show that Thomas John has no idea when someone is lying to him, and that he has no problem posting a faked testimonial if it makes him sound good.

Either way it would suggest he has no psychic powers. For he either made it up himself, or he could not tell when someone had made up a story about him being correct in a reading, and therefore the original reading was also fake.

In future any time you see any testimonial that a psychic/medium posts, be skeptical.

We will let you make your own minds up as to how this effects Thomas John's claims of being a medium. Personally I believe he had no real psychic abilities, and that he cannot communicate with the dead.

By Jon Donnis

This article is purely the opinion of the author, and may or may not represent the opinions of BadPsychics.com

REVIEW: Most Haunted Shorts Episode 1 - Aired on Youtube 14/06/2019

I'd hoped that I wouldn't have to write another Most Haunted review at least until October, as that is the usual time new episodes are released, but with no official word on a new series airing on UKTV channel REALLY, and me being repeatedly told by the Most Haunted Mole that UKTV are refusing to pay their previous amount per episode for Most Haunted, and threatening to shelve the show completely, we find ourselves at a fork in the road.

Probably about 13 years too late, Karl Beattie and Yvette Fielding have decided to knock up a Youtube Channel for Most Haunted, the thought being that if they don't get back on REALLY, at least they can put their shows online, and perhaps make money from ad revenue, or even by charging people per episode. Imagine if they had done this 13 years ago, they would have millions of subscribers! Instead I expect they will top off at about 50k.

So far their efforts have been a mixed bag, their first full "investigation" was done in portrait mode from a mobile phone, which made it pretty much unwatchable, and ended up with hundreds of complaints, and other uploads just being stuff that was not good enough to make the TV episodes.

Despite the teething problems they have managed to get about 19,000 subscribers, which is a decent amount. And they got about 63,000 views for the mobile phone investigation, but just 29,000 views for a 22 minute "Unseen Vigil" (read that as crap that didn't make the TV). So they definitely lost some viewers. But it is still early days. And there is still chance to grow, so with this being their 3rd go at putting a proper episode on Youtube, and their 2nd "broadcast quality" attempt, I thought I would give it a watch (so you don't have to) and give it my opinion.

Despite them claiming this is a "Short" it is actually only about 5 minutes shorter than a regular episode. Usually without ad breaks an episode runs 45 minutes, take out a minute beginning and end for the credits, and then take out the "previously on" and "coming up on" clips. And an episode really is only about 41 or 42 minutes long. This Most Haunted Short is 37 minutes long. So it is about as good a "test" as you will get as to the viability of having Most Haunted air as an online only entity.

It is also worth noting that they cant fiddle the viewership numbers like they do with the televised viewings.

Blurb:
"This is the first episode of the Most Haunted: Shorts series. The Most Haunted team embarks on another investigation. Can they complete the job without a scratch?"

Well no idea where they are at from the blurbage, maybe they will mention once it starts?

The credits role and in voice over Yvette tells us we are going to two investigations. Karl and Stuart at Hereford Shire Hall. And Yvette and Glen at Ruthin Castle. I think this will be left over footage from this episode from last year that was filmed in June.

REVIEW: Most Haunted (24th October 2018) - Ruthin Castle

There is no walk around, no Yvette doing a piece into camera while walking down a stair case. We are straight into black and white, and the investigation has begun.

I would suggest that when this was filmed, they had no plans for a Youtube channel, otherwise they would have filmed it with that in mind including an intro.

Glen goes into Room 222. This feels familiar? I have wiped past episodes out of my mind, so apologies if you do remember it.

We cut to Karl and he is at Hereford Shire Hall in the Old Cells. This doesn't ring any bells, so maybe this was from one of the episodes I missed?

I'm already regretting watching this. Usually by the time they get into the investigations, the episode is 10 minutes old. This will be hard work.

Glen has gotten his laptop out, he quickly closes down his Google Chrome Browser which had 15 tabs open, all to some site, I could only make out Hamster. No idea what that could be.

We get a replay of what Yvette describes in voice over as a whimper.
If real it could be anything from a crew member to a bird, or even a cat. Or it could have just been added in post production to make what was a boring scene seem more interesting.

I think the reason that a lot of this footage would not have been used originally is because it is all too similar to what else they probably used in the episode.

Out of nowhere Yvette makes a comment about Glen's big potatoes. I assume she is referring to his testicles. (I am not joking, just after 7 minutes). Glen questions her description, and she quantifies it by saying he is "hard".

I have never seen Glen look so pleased with a description of himself before! Big potatoes and Hard! His Christmas has come early it seems.

Back with Karl and Stuart and suddenly there is a noise OFF CAMERA!
They run along a corridor and apparently the noise came from someone rattling a filing cabinet.

Karl recreates the noise, and proves that any human could have made the noise.

Suddenly there is another noise OFF CAMERA, and Karl and Stuart go running again.

I believe the phrase you are looking for here is "Same old, same shit".

In case you forgot the routine, all of this could be proven real if they simply used more than one camera. Put an iPhone on the side and pressed record, anything as simple as that and they prove the existence of ghosts, but of course, despite being 20+ series in, they still haven't thought of that, so the choice here is they are totally incompetent as investigators, or they are lying. I will leave you to make your minds up which.

As Yvette keeps thinking about Glen's big balls, she films his arse as he goes up the steps ahead of her, suddenly he makes a sex noise, she thinks it is a ghost, but he admits it was him. Yvette refuses to accept that it was Glen, and then changes what she heard and makes out it was a growl, the replay proves there was no growl.

Glen is doing his best to act tough to the ghosties.

Worth noting you can clearly hear people talking outside. Instantly this makes any noises they hear worthless, as it could easily be someone outside.

Cause we are on youtube, that means they don't have to edit out any swearing. And Stuart is taking advantage of that.

Yvette has pulled out the Ouija board, and both her and Glen are lightly fingering the glass.

Yvette starts to clearly push the glass, there is no doubt, no confusion, Yvette is just pushing the glass about.

Yvette claims the table is moving, and as you can see it is one of those flimsy fold-able tables, so hardly surprised it is moving.

Now Yvette is swearing!

Yvette stops the Ouija Board as perhaps she realises it is too obvious that it is her pushing the glass.

"Is anybody there? Knock once for yes, twice for no"

With Karl and Stuart, and they are talking to the ghost, even Karl admits there is a car park right outside where they are and they can hear people outside talking and moving about. You can also hear birds tweeting.

We then get a little set up, and it is pretty clear something will happen.

Karl gets into position, and Stuart proudly states he will stay here to get a wide shot, we then get a bang that was clearly not live and added in post production, Karl does his best bit of acting, and apparently a wooden crate moved and banged. OFF CAMERA.

Notice that Karl literally has his Smartphone in his hand, as he is using the light off it as a torch. He could just click record on the camera, and he would have just caught it on camera, instead he is just using the light.

Incompetence or fakery? There is no other option.

They really try to present this as proof of the paranormal. And the idiot fans lap it up.

22 minutes in out of 37 total, and boy am I bored already.

Glen has seen his chance, and moves in for the kill, he starts to seductively stroke behind Yvette's ear.

Just as Yvette is about to Orgasm, her pelvis hasn't been this far apart since childbirth, she gets spooked by something, and for once they actually capture it ON CAMERA!!

Yes Ladies and Gentleman, a GHOST BAT is caught on camera. Yvette says M*ther F*cker. And Most Haunted has hit a new low.

The replays are hilarious, as it keeps replaying Yvette nearly cumming as the ghost bat flies behind them.

The ghost bat has completely killed the mood, and Yvette has clenched up. Poor Glen, he got so close.

Karl and Stuart are stomping about a bit.

Yvette and Glen check the laptop for EVP and the episode pretty much abruptly ends.

10 seconds of credits, a little dodgy voice over by Yvette which sounds like it was recorded on a built in laptop microphone and that's that.

With a bit of effort they could have easily stretched this another 5 minutes and claimed it was a proper episode.

With the last series literally filmed over just 4 nights and then stretched to 10 episodes, they can easily create plenty of content for their Youtube Channel, the problem is not the quantity, but the quality. And I expect that they will churn out any old crap onto the channel, and people will soon stop watching.

To make money on youtube you need millions of views, and even then you face the problem of companies not wanting to advertise on certain channels if they do not deem them to be good converters. (People who click through and then purchase or sign up to whatever is being advertised).

Content that contains bad language means no advertisers of children's products. Channels which feature the occult means no religious advertising. Those are two of the biggest groups of advertisers out the window straight away.

It is early days and if Most Haunted decide to, or if they have no other choice but to go online only, then youtube is their best bet, but if they think they can make money from it, they are deluded.

At best they can film during their Most Haunted Experience tours, use that footage to make up episodes, and put it online for free just to keep the name out there and hope it helps drive people to their live experience tours. Perhaps create enough content to release a DVD every so often. That would be their best bet.

Unless things change and UKTV decide to pay for another series, this could very well be the future for Most Haunted, no more than a youtube show, no different to the hundreds of other similar ghost hunting shows out there.

As a stand alone episode this was poor, and you could understand why this footage never made previous episodes. I give it a 0 out of 10. Don't waste your time.

And no I have no interest in embedding the episode here, or sending them views. If you really want to watch it I am sure you can find it. But let's be clear here, one review of mine gets more views/reads than an episode of Most Haunted will ever get on youtube, even if it is a "short".

If the show moves permanently to YouTube, then I see no reason why I would review it. It simply wouldn't benefit me or this site. But you never know.

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Rove takes a look at "The One" a TV series testing psychics including Ezio De Angelis

Rove, formerly Rove Live, was an Australian television variety show which premiered on the Nine Network on 22 September 1999, before moving to Network Ten which aired the program from 2000 until November, 2009. The show was hosted by comedian Rove McManus, and featured an ensemble cast, who presented various segments throughout the course of the show. The show won the Logie Award for "Most Popular Light Entertainment Program" five times (2002, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009).

Here Rove takes a look at "The One" a TV series testing psychics.
Featuring Mitchell Coombes, Rayleen Kable, Shé D'Montford, Jason Betts, Amanda Roussety, Ezio De Angelis and Charmaine Wilson.

Is self proclaimed "Psychic Medium" Lorraine Ash a Racist as well as a terrible Psychic?

For those of you with a really long memory, I had a run in with Lorraine Ash nearly a decade ago. You can read all about that By Clicking Here but for once this is not about me. I was recently contacted by a concerned person from West Bromwich regarding a recent show they attended that featured Lorraine Ash as the main act.

Now this person has asked not to be named in fear of reprisals from Lorraine Ash, or those associated with her. I have had reports in the past from people, and even other so called psychics who have told me of the kind of things Lorraine Ash has done to protect her bottom line, so I can understand the fear, and I will happily keep their name out of this report. But to make life easier, I will refer to this person as Julie.

Lorraine Ash had advertised her Evening of Mediumship on Facebook

And this very post had been advertised and paid for by Lorraine Ash to appear as a "Sponsored Post" across facebook. Despite getting only 38 likes and 32 shares, this ad appeared on "Julie's" Facebook Timeline, and although Julie had visited a psychic in the past, this was her first time going to see Lorraine Ash, and Julie decided to take her young son along for company.

During the show Lorraine Ash went to Julie to give her a reading, here is what Julie told me....

"She happened to pick a vibe or energy from me and proceeded to give me a reading. First she asked me about violet sweets and why she kept seeing that, I said I didn't know, then she described a bible bashing church woman in a suit who came through to contact me, I told her I didn't know who she was talking about."

Well the sweets are the kind of thing a psychic may come out with in a reading, but to go straight to a "Bible bashing Church woman in a suit", it's not something you hear very often, it is rather specific, although Lorraine got things wrong.

"Then she kept on saying she's getting a 'V' name I said I don't know anyone with a name beginning with V so she said maybe the name had a V sound in it but didn't begin with the letter  V and I couldn't think of anybody."

Now I wonder if when Lorraine mentioned "Violet Sweets" she was hoping the name Violet would hit, but when it didn't she thought she would stick with the letter V. She fails again, and again.

"So she starts to get really angry with me and said "I don't like these types of readings, your making me sound like I'm a liar or fake or something" . "

No Lorraine Ash, you can not and should never blame your victim for making you look like a liar and a fake, you are responsible for your own actions, and to try and blame the person receiving the reading is disgraceful.

"She turns to another woman she was hosting the event with and asks if she could pick up the name and the lady told her it was Veronica. I said I didn't know anybody by that name and I could see her getting worried and more and more angry."

This has actually happened to me before, during a reading when the medium starts to fail badly, they try to get the help of another medium present, they usually do this to help share the blame, after all if two mediums are wrong then it must be the victims fault right!

"Finally she said she's linking to a person who got shot in the neck,I said I didn't know anybody who'd been shot and she had enough and said maybe it's someone in my ex partners family or a past relative I didn't know and said she had nothing more to pass on and moved onto the next."

Much like the Bible Bashing woman in a suit description earlier, we now have a really specific claim regarding someone who had been shot in the neck.

Again completely wrong. But it is two really specific things that Lorraine said, and not your typical cold reading characters that psychics tend to throw out for an easy fit.

"Nothing she said was right, I felt like she was cold reading because I was the only black woman in the room" 

And suddenly the light bulb has gone off in your head just as it has mine.

"Julie", the victim of Lorraine Ash on this Evening of Mediumship is a black woman, and the only black person other than her son in the whole room.

So is this the reason Lorraine Ash started with a character who was a Bible Bashing woman in a suit? After all the stereotype of an older black woman is often quite strong minded, very religious, as well as being very smartly dressed when going to Church. (I must say I'm always impressed by the effort put in by the black community when it comes to dressing up for Church.)

The names Violet and Veronica are both common names in an older age range.

But surely this is not enough on its own to even suggest that Lorraine is racially stereotyping a woman, it is only a name, oh wait remember what she said about a man being shot in the neck.

Well if you type "West Bromwich Murder" into google, guess what you get.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2016/12/30/carl-campbell-murder-two-men-in-court-over-west-bromwich-shooting/

Late last year a young black man was murdered on West Bromwich High Street, not far from where this Evening of Mediumship was being held. he was shot in the side of the head.

So clearly Lorraine Ash since she is from the Midlands either recalled seeing this report on the news, or just googled some reported deaths before the show, and when she saw "Julie" she assumed because she was the only black person at the show, then of course she would know this black man who was recently murdered.

It is well known that all black people know each other right? No? Are you sure?

So if that is not bad enough lets continue...

"and at one point she asked another woman if there's a "K' name around her and the lady said I have a boyfriend called Kyah.

She asked does he smoke weed? The girl said no so Lorraine Ash said it's around him then. Them she told the same girl "Your granddad in spirit doesn't want you with a black man, but I'm not being racist"

She then looked at me and said don't take that the wrong way, it's not me saying it I'm not racist it's spirit. She addressed me because I was the only black person in the room."

You do realise that whenever some one says "I'm not being racist" they usually are being just that.

"The girl told her "my partner's not black" so Lorraine Ash said to her "well you've been with someone brown before and that's what he's talking about"

I think because the girl said her boyfriend was called Kyah a black sounding name, then Lorraine Ash assumed he was black and so said that he smoked weed."

It really just gets worse for Lorraine Ash doesn't it!
Not only is she a terrible psychic, she also seemingly makes assumptions of race based on names and uses terrible racist stereotypes as part of her act.

"I also feel that she assumed I knew I dead religious person because most elderly black people are deeply religious and so she was guessing based on that."

As I said previously. Lorraine has clearly in my opinion gone beyond basic cold reading here, and moved onto racist stereotypes.

I also felt singled out when she told the girl not to go out with a brown guy as I was the only black person or any other race in the room. I also feel that because I'm black she mentioned a gun and someone getting shot because in this country, gun crime to do with black males are shown alot in the news so she was stereotyping that based on my skin colour, and she assumed that there was a high probability of me knowing a gun crime victim, but I didn't know any.

Especially when it seems pretty clear she assumed that Julie knew the murdered black man from West Bromwich.

"When the show ended I tried to shake her hand but felt snubbed as if she was still angry at me and as I walked off, I looked back and it looked as if she was saying something nasty and spiteful about me by her facial expressions."

I asked Julie why she would try to shake Lorraine's hand after the event she replied

"I tried to shake her hand after the show because I knew I annoyed her because she said I made her seem like she was lying. I just didn't want any hard feelings or bad vibes."

Julie continues

"I got home and I felt angry that I'd just given my money away to someone who in my opinion was not the real deal. I jumped on google to see if anyone had had any bad experiences with her, I found BadPsychics and thought I would let you know my experience as it could help warn others about her..."

And with that what can I say. Lorraine Ash is a terrible psychic, and in my personal opinion she racially profiled Julie, and made some very ignorant comments which are not only offensive to the black community, but offensive to anyone who stands against bigotry and racism. For once the whole pretending to communicate with the dead while taking your money is not the most offensive thing about the psychic medium.

Julie has told me she will never go to see Lorraine Ash again, and also that she doubts she will ever visit a medium again full stop, as the experience has left her feeling very upset that she could be treated in such a way.

Over the many years of me doing what I do, I have a few times come across psychics racially profiling people. I myself were once racially profiled by a psychic. And in West Bromwich funnily enough. I just wish I could remember the name of the psychic but it was a long long time ago, Hell for all i know it could have been Lorraine Ash! During that reading, I was told they could see camels and the desert, Yes folks due to my dark olive tan they assumed i was of Middle Eastern ethnicity.

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