Medium to the Stars?

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Flipping channels I came across a show that is about a young man, Tyler Henry, who is the 'go-to' "medium to the stars". Which means he "reads" D-list-has-beens, like former reality-show "stars" from years ago.


Anyway, I hung in for a few minutes. Does anyone have any information on him as a fraud? I didn't watch enough to determine if he is a cold or hot reader. I imagine that the low-rent "celebrities" probably have a great deal of their lives published.

Opinions? Facts?

Thanks.
 
wasapi said:
Flipping channels I came across a show that is about a young man, Tyler Henry, who is the 'go-to' "medium to the stars". Which means he "reads" D-list-has-beens, like former reality-show "stars" from years ago.

Anyway, I hung in for a few minutes. Does anyone have any information on him as a fraud?
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Sure. I bolded the evidence.
 
abaddon said:
I will add that even if he is only for D-list celebs, he has no further effort to make than to read the Daily Fail.
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I just googled him. Discovered this post is accurate. Though he does have 421,339 likes on Facebook. This compares with 771,481 likes for Olivia Newton-John.

Pity I thought there would be no new mediums get any shows.
 
wasapi said:
Flipping channels I came across a show that is about a young man, Tyler Henry, who is the 'go-to' "medium to the stars". Which means he "reads" D-list-has-beens, like former reality-show "stars" from years ago.


Anyway, I hung in for a few minutes. Does anyone have any information on him as a fraud? I didn't watch enough to determine if he is a cold or hot reader. I imagine that the low-rent "celebrities" probably have a great deal of their lives published.

Opinions? Facts?

Thanks.
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The Skeptical Inquirer and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry call him a "Grief Vampire" who preys on people who have lost loved ones.
 
He gets a mention a mention in John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' current edition in which he thoroughly eviscerates psychics. It won't convince anyone who's "brain cannot tell them what to think" but anyone not bought into it (literally) should enjoy it. Sylvia Browne also gets a mention, it's hard not to be moved by the kidnapping victim who believed in Browne right up to the moment when she watched Browne on television telling her mother that she was dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P45DFNV2Q7w
 
Actually, Tyler Henry isn't reading D list has beens.

Howie Mandel was on last week. I've seen Matt Lauer, Khloe Kardashian, Alan Thicke, the TV physician who was on CNN for years, Dr. Paul Nassif, the famous surgeon, Dr Drew Pinsky. I'm not up on celebrities, so I don't often recognize the people who have readings, but D list it is not.

My suggestion is you watch an episode before making judgement. What Mr. Henry is doing is hard to explain other than accepting that he may be able to do something other people can't.
 
Frank McLaughlin said:
Actually, Tyler Henry isn't reading D list has beens.

Howie Mandel was on last week. I've seen Matt Lauer, Khloe Kardashian, Alan Thicke, the TV physician who was on CNN for years, Dr. Paul Nassif, the famous surgeon, Dr Drew Pinsky. I'm not up on celebrities, so I don't often recognize the people who have readings, but D list it is not.

My suggestion is you watch an episode before making judgement. What Mr. Henry is doing is hard to explain other than accepting that he may be able to do something other people can't.
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The only one of those I immediately recognise is Kardashian, and she is sub D-list.

What point are you making?
 
Isn't this the clairvoyant who, when first meeting a famous celebrity, claims he doesn't know who they are? Great shtick.
"Barack Obama? I didn't know you were black! And the former President of where? Doesn't matter, I do know who all of your dead relatives are, and wow, do they have a lot to say!"

Why on earth do these "celebrities" give this fraud the time of day is beyond me.
 
bytewizard said:
Isn't this the clairvoyant who, when first meeting a famous celebrity, claims he doesn't know who they are? Great shtick.
"Barack Obama? I didn't know you were black! And the former President of where? Doesn't matter, I do know who all of your dead relatives are, and wow, do they have a lot to say!"

Why on earth do these "celebrities" give this fraud the time of day is beyond me.
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No. Wrong guy. With a handful being recognizable faces, most that he 'reads' for, are such celebrity-no-bodies. "Celebrities" are something like a person remotely related to the Kardashians.
 
Frank McLaughlin said:
Actually, Tyler Henry isn't reading D list has beens.

Howie Mandel was on last week. I've seen Matt Lauer, Khloe Kardashian, Alan Thicke, the TV physician who was on CNN for years, Dr. Paul Nassif, the famous surgeon, Dr Drew Pinsky. I'm not up on celebrities, so I don't often recognize the people who have readings, but D list it is not.

My suggestion is you watch an episode before making judgement. What Mr. Henry is doing is hard to explain other than accepting that he may be able to do something other people can't.
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You are right, these people couldn't even aspire to be D list.
 
I gather he has Jim Parsons on, underlining the big gap that there often is between actor and role.
 
bytewizard said:
Isn't this the clairvoyant who, when first meeting a famous celebrity, claims he doesn't know who they are? Great shtick.
"Barack Obama? I didn't know you were black! And the former President of where? Doesn't matter, I do know who all of your dead relatives are, and wow, do they have a lot to say!"

Why on earth do these "celebrities" give this fraud the time of day is beyond me.
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It is beyond you. That part you have right.

I would suggest that ridicule--especially ridicule without substance--is an ineffective form of argument.
 
wasapi said:
No. Wrong guy. With a handful being recognizable faces, most that he 'reads' for, are such celebrity-no-bodies. "Celebrities" are something like a person remotely related to the Kardashians.
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You don't know what you are talking about. His claim not to know who he's reading until he arrives is--along with never looking at the person he's reading-- two signature "shticks" as wasapi would say.

Why is the level of celebrity important to you? Ridicule? Okay. Duly noted.
 
Doing something no other person is capable if is a big claim. If I choose not to accept at face value can anyone offer solid proof he has abilities? Even himself?

Brad Pitt, Mel Gibson, Madonna and Bruce Willis would be names that would get ears to perk if he started name dropping.
Picking at a list of washed up tv celebs from the 80's is a desperate plea by all to get some tv airtime again. Anything at all will do.
 
Robin said:
You are right, these people couldn't even aspire to be D list.
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Well....that settles it....Henry must be a fraud...reading D list celebrities!

I see you have a keen eye for this celebrity thing. I'll check with you for a celebrity rating after next week's show.
 
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