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Psychic Sally morgan caught cheating?

Sideroxylon said:
Getting heavily panned. I wonder what is happening? Is Sally failing to pull off the cold reading and showmanship or are audiences becoming more sceptical? I hope it is the latter.
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Regarding "van/caravan" and some of the other things in those reviews I thought that that was exactly the sort of fishing and saving that psychics do and gloss over so quickly that people remember it as a hit. After all a van and a caravan are not that different compared to cars and certainly compared to bicycles.

As for the earpiece and people planning to go in there with radios, I think it a safe bet that she's smart enough that she won't be using it for a while. There are other techniques for do this sort of thing though and of course many of them predate small wireless earpieces.
 
GT/CS said:
Like more plants in the audience.
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Could be a risky tactic because you either have to use someone already close to you that is on the act (they can't appear too often or be found out) or take the risk of employing outsiders.

She would be better off giving free tickets to some folks who contact her for a private reading and then have the spirits come back for a repeat performance in front of a live audience. That's an oldie but a goody, isn't it?
 
Reno said:
Unsurprisingly, my comment on her pink homepage was not authorised...
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Nor mine.
FYI still no reply from anyone in the Derren Brown camp,he was quick enough to tweet the original "earpice" story, why the silence?
 
Hope Derren's not keeping quiet due to some kind of "celeb pact" or to avoid any heat which may affect his showbiznizz. Would be disappointing to have someone as high-profile as he keeping schtuum to ensure his revenue stream continues :/
 
thenigotoffthebus said:
The recent reviews on this site aren't exactly glowing and they seem to be mostly from genuine fans. Some of them make quite interesting reading.
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Go back a few pages and they are different. You get people who are amazed at what she did. Probably hot readings? Only the odd bad review. This is absent from the recent pages which are all bad reviews. Maybe she cannot do cold readings very well.

Edit. Maybe someone should save these pages or maybe do a study on them.
 
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I was quite excited to see sally, however, i was very disappointed as in my opinion no real messages were delivered, she did a photo which she spotted on the top (had it been placed there?) a young lady stood up and wept, it was heartbreaking, but was she an actress? this hit was worthy of her tv show, but the rest of the show was very vague, she appeared to clutch at straws, when people came through she would mimic their illness ie "i have a man here who died of cancer", there are 1000 people in the room many of them will know a man who died of cancer, i found some bits distressing especially when she mimicked a man saying " i didn't want to die, i never had chance to say goodbye" over and over again, i know if that was my message i'd have been distraught, she mimicked a little girl who supposedly died at the age of 4 and who had vomit all down her dress, what horrid imagery! she put on a scary baby voice worthy of a good horror movie. she basically offered names, illnesses, and further names, if the receiver of the message couldn't take the further names their message ended with love and she quickly moved on. she's supposed to offer comfort not distress, many people looked disappointed, a complete waste of money. terrible, terrible, terrible.
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This was my first time seeing Sally live and i have to say how disapointed my friends and family were.I love the tv show but this was nothing like that.The messages she was getting nobody could take and she was making things up so it would fit in when people did stand up!Her husband was walking around the stalls all night(was he a spy trying to catch something from the audiance?)When she put her hand in the 'fishbowl'she didnt get anything much,she couldnt even tell if the photo she was holding was of a girl or a boy!!No sorry Sally i loved your tv show but i have to say i wont watch it again,highly edited.Waste of money never again
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K14sIoE8qT4 :D
 
Reno said:
Hope Derren's not keeping quiet due to some kind of "celeb pact" or to avoid any heat which may affect his showbiznizz. Would be disappointing to have someone as high-profile as he keeping schtuum to ensure his revenue stream continues :/
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Alternatively, could it be Derren who is being sued and therefore must keep schtumm ? Anyone in the know ?
 
Sally Morgan is a notoriously inept cold reader. Many of the people who go to her stage shows after seeing her on TV don't seem to understand that TV shows are edited - what they see on screen are the highlights of what actually took place. I suspect that Morgan loses a lot of potential fans when they pay good money for a theatre ticket only to see her waffle on about her childhood, make obvious guesses and generally flounder about.
 
I keep mixing up Morgan and Geordie comedienne Sarah Millican, especially as the latter has gone blonde of late. I know which one I'd rather pay to go and see.
 
/derail

I saw Sarah Millican on the same bill as Kevin Bridges in the Stand in Glasgow a few years ago when both were completely unknown. Out of the 5 acts that night, Sarah and Kevin were in a different league to the others. Kevin Bridges in particular had the whole place in uproar. :)

/end derail
 
Blue Bubble said:
Alternatively, could it be Derren who is being sued and therefore must keep schtumm ? Anyone in the know ?
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Unlikely, I think she was suing newspapers(or not as it seems now),but Derren's silence is bizarre.I've tried all avenues short of knocking on his door :p
 
Rrose Selavy said:
Worth quoting in full for info here and in case it gets taken down. How bad do you have to get as a "Psychic" that
1. You have to desparately encourage people to speak up after the event.
2. You have to resort to telling uncorroborated anecdotes about how your misses become hits after the event.
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Exactly! It is like going to watch a juggler who drops everything, then posts the next day that he tried his act again later that night in his dressing room. "Hey, guess what?! I juggled all 3 chainsaws perfectly. I was fantastic!"
 
Simon Singh is following up on this whole affair. He was on the radio in Dublin today, although I just missed hearing what he said. He had tried to contact Sally herself, and the theatre, but neither are replying to him. He contacted Sally's lawyer, to find out who was being sued for libel, but didn't get any answers. He has spoken to two of the three women who originally, and independently, rang the Dublin radio station, and they are quite open about what they heard, and their stories are consistent.

He has been to one of Sally's shows, and is planning to attend another. He is working on putting together a challenge for her, along with Chris French and some of the Merseyside skeptics.
 
There were also rumours about more 'big' stories coming out about Sally and that rival newspapers were in some kind of bidding war for them. This was about 3 weeks ago I was told this. I hope it's true. Otherwise this whole story will just fade away and she will carry on being a rich smug idiot. Her fb page has now reverted back to a shrine to worship her and for her to gloat since she's successfully banned and blocked all the sceptics who where posting and trying to encourage a debate. It's all rather disheartening :(

And the DBrown thing too - I'm really going off him now!
 
snuffkin said:
There were also rumours about more 'big' stories coming out about Sally and that rival newspapers were in some kind of bidding war for them. This was about 3 weeks ago I was told this. I hope it's true. Otherwise this whole story will just fade away and she will carry on being a rich smug idiot. Her fb page has now reverted back to a shrine to worship her and for her to gloat since she's successfully banned and blocked all the sceptics who where posting and trying to encourage a debate. It's all rather disheartening :(

And the DBrown thing too - I'm really going off him now!
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Interesting to know more about these stories snuffkin.Yes Im slightly dissapointed with Derren too. No reply from his management.May have to try the TV company next.:p
Look forward to SSingh's blog tomorrow.
 
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