DEREK ACORAH'S GHOST TOWNS

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Celebrity Quitters - Channel 5". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015 . Retrieved 26 February 2017. Yvette Fielding, a presenter and executive producer of Most Haunted, initially stated "there is no acting on this programme, none whatsoever. Everything you see and you hear is real." [5] However, significant media attention was directed at the show in 2005, after Acorah claimed to channel spirits with names that had allegedly been suggested to him in advance, those names being "Rik Eedles" and "Kreed Kafer", anagrams of "Derek Lies" and "Derek Faker". These names were created by the show's then-resident sceptic and parapsychologist Ciarán O'Keeffe in a successful attempt to expose Acorah. [17] [18] [19] Speaking in 2006, Fielding said of Acorah: "We tell people everything is real, then it turns out he was a fake, so he had to go". [20] His time on the show saw him regularly being parodied, most notably with Shirley Ghostman (portrayed by Marc Wootton), which drew on elements of Acorah and Colin Fry, and Wootton once invaded one of Acorah's shows. [21] He was also parodied by Dawn French on an episode of French and Saunders, by Jon Culshaw on Dead Ringers and by Hugh Laurie on Saturday Night Live. When asked why it had taken him five years to offer his services, Derek insisted: "It was in my mind to go over and search for Madeleine when she first disappeared but there were already four mediums over there.

He claimed he had been "misquoted" by the Sun, which ran the original interview in which he is reported as saying: "I know her parents are convinced Maddie is alive and I'm really sorry - but the little one has been over in the spirit world for some time. Acorah's first television appearance was on the satellite TV channel Granada Breeze in 1996. During his five years with the channel, he began with Livetime before later appearing weekly on Psychic Livetime. He also appeared on Predictions which started out as a showcase for various studio guests but later became a vehicle for Acorah alone and renamed Predictions with Derek Acorah. [14] [15] Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns is a paranormal reality television series which features noted Medium Derek Acorah as he visits towns in the UK to investigate hauntings. The team would travel in the "Ghost Town Van" and would allow townsfolk to tell the team about their encounters with hauntings in their home town. During the investigation, Derek would visit a random house and give the owner a psychic reading this was "Doorstep Divination." The show aired from 7 November 2005 until 28 November 2006.Legend has it that Diana was the daughter of the family who owned Syndale Manor (now known as the Judd’s Folly Hotel). And her fiance was the son of the vicar of Davington Church. I feel so honoured, privileged and so blessed to have been part of yours and your family's lives for so many years, but most of all to have been your friend.I will never, ever forget you @derek_acorah."

The first series aired every Monday night at 9pm on LivingTV between 7 November and 12 December. The show was hosted by Danniella Westbrook and Angus Purden. After each episode aired, a "behind the scenes" show "Ghost Towns Revealed" aired which followed the team as they filmed the episode. In 2012 he apologised to the family of Madeleine McCann after claiming to have received a psychic message from their missing daughter saying she was dead. Nevertheless, the television regulator, Ofcom, ruled that the broadcasting code had not been breached by “fraudulently contrived” events because the programme was broadcast as entertainment, not as a legitimate investigation into the paranormal. CBBBOTS presenter Rylan Clark-Neal wrote: "Sad news about Derek Achorah This morning. A very lovely man to speak to and a great housemate. RIP."Fast forward two centuries and customers and staff sometimes talk about the temperature dropping suddenly, as well as strong smells of tobacco and rum. Burk, Graeme; Smith, Robert J. (2012). Who is the doctor: the unofficial guide to Doctor Who, the new series. p. 115. ISBN 9781550229844. OCLC 905080310. Derek told the Nottingham Post : "I first met my spirit guide, Sam, in a previous lifetime when I was an Ethiopian boy and Sam was a friend of the family. This is about 2,038 years ago.