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Sally Morgan Psychic

I think my head is going to explode.....:eye-poppi

Never before have I seen such a poor cover story for a psychic doing hot reading.

She meets Danny Dyer who is a moderately famous actor, and tells him she doesn't know who he is and has only just seen a small photo of him.

Before that she met Kym Ryder who is in one of the most famous soap operas in the Uk. Funnily enough, she was able to ask 'Who is Tracy?' who just happened to be Kym's sister. Then she started on Kym's mother who was there who had lost a baby, a father, a brother, .........

Don't know if I can watch any more of this. This is just so wrong on so many levels.
 
watching it now. Find it hard to believe anyone has the front to produce lie after lie like this, although I shouldn't be suprised really. Its so clear this is all hot reading...she isn't even throwing a few misses in there to look like she is trying.

What worries me most is that she is purportedly about to do a 'test' and has already been shown in the trailers saying how she doesn't mind being tested because she is the 'real deal'. Well, the tests will plainly be completely unscientific and yet to casual viewers it will look completely sound. Wheres the balance?

The fact the programme immediately follows American Idol over here worries me too, as I suspect that will mean there will be a higher percentage of younger viewers who will waltz into woo-woo land as a result of this nutjob and the various gullible 'celebrities' she reads for.

And I always thought Danny Dyer was a plonker. He has just validated that view!
 
Oh god, she is now - as her test - getting to guess peoples occupations (they are dressed as their occupations...a nurse, fireman etc) by holding their hand while blindfolded.

For a start, are these people dead? If not, then why is it a valid test for a medium? Secondly, its just a standard trick but not even done well like Derren Brown. She can probably even see through the bloody blindfold! Ridiculous. It isn't even a good magic trick!!!
 
That wasn't a trick - it started out as one, but degenerated into BOILING HOT reading again.

SHe didn't want to tell that woman that she had been raped cos she was too upset to mention the word. But she did anyway. Then told the whole world the poor woman had been filmed while she was raped.

THIS IS SICK.
 
The phone-box thing was completely transparent too. They had a 'hidden camera' in the phone box (which was hardly hidden anyway), and yet when the passers-by answer the phone they are filmed from multiple angles, including a camera immediately outside the window pointing directly at the acto...sorry I mean poor unknowns face.

I don't think a programme has made me so mad in a long time. It has a complete and utter lack of critical comment. At least most trash TV shows like this alludes to the skeptic movement and usually wheels out a Wiseman or a French, even if its just for a few seconds.

One thing this is doing is giving me a list of celebrities to avoid in future :)
 
The phone box thing was odd,as there were various people in the call box but it wasn't clear who she was reading when.Her voice over was constant yet there were numerous calls.On the blindfold "test" she coudl clearly see as she had her head tilted back and as said it's a magic trick!
 
I thought she was doing the magic trick - but when she read the fifth woman, then it was clear she was also hot-reading. Actually, I think that was probably an actress or a member of the production team too.

ETA: Plus, one of the women in the phone box, addressed her as 'Sally' and it sounded awfully as if she knew her.

EETA: I just sent her an email through her site, however it got returned as her mailbox is full. Fan mail? Abuse? Who knows. Will try again tomorrow.

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<sllmrgn@aol.com>

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to air-mc04.mail.aol.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<sllmrgn@aol.com>
<<< 552 sllmrgn MAILBOX FULL
554 <sllmrgn@aol.com>... Service unavailable
 
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We could do with a merge of these two threads;

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78261

I realise all psychics are fake by definition, but our attempts at psychic TV "stars" just seem so... anaemic when compared to the likes of Sylvia B and John E. Take Colin "Trumpet Boy" Fry and his uber-camp disciple wotsisname - they're pants compared; less good at cold reading, at patter, at charisma.

We can't even get charlatanry right!
 
Big Les, it's Sylvia Browne and John Edwards can't even get charlatany right. They're pathetic compared to real cold readers.

John Edward had an audience stacked with plants, every yard of the studio wired, a contract that all but ball-gagged the people who appeared on the show and all the tricks of editing at his disposal and still came off as a bad cold reader.

For proof Sylvia Browne is no great shakes at carnival tricks, well, just look at Robert's site.

Now, I haven't seen any of those UK psychics you mention but you must be right that they're bad if they're bad compared to Sylvia and John.
 
Point taken - but trust me, ours really are *that bad*. Think of it like fast food... many Americans think of McDonald's food as fairly crap, right? Not too nutritious, a bit cheap and nasty? No substitute for your local diner or homecooked food? Well, imagine tiny, *tiny* burgers that taste of even less, cost twice as much, and are served at a snail's pace by bored, spotty youths whose "have a nice day" is rendered with such dripping resentment and hatred, you'll wish you'd starved instead.

That's the sort of thing I mean when I say our psychics are weak versions of the American ones - you'd rather not bother with any of them, but the "originals" are at least value for money and made of 100% beef. Wait, I think I'm losing my analogy...
 
Point taken. They're sh!tty imitations and retreads of pure, stinking *****.

They're the Power Rangers sequels and spin-offs compared to the original Power Rangers. They're Police Academy 7. They're the Saturday morning filler, time killer, Disney Channel-ish animated TV show spin-off of Sabrina the Teenage Witch when it's not just the original that sucked, it was also the original of that going back to the first comic book that started the franchise.
 
I was flicking through the channels after watching heroes and came accross this. Due to the fact my tv is still intact is testimony to the fact I did not carry on watching. It looks to me, from the write up, that it just a way for people who have had their fifteen minutes of fame to stay in the limelight. The limelight here is glowing very dimly. I expect her to do the rounds of daytime TV programmes where she will be given an easy ride. What we need is someone who could challenge her in this environment. Is the British Witchcraft Act of 1735 still in effect?
 
So, what exactly is wrong in England? You funny talkers seem, to have lots and lots of psychic shows. Lots.
 
America:

Medium
Crossing Over
Psychic Detectives
Ghost Whisperer
Haunting Evidence
Montel Williams
The History-Fiction channel

And one of the guys on Two and a Half men is a chiropractor.
 
Jesus; Charlie "911 inside job" Sheen and a chiro? What's the kid, a bleedin' spoon-bender?
 
Interesting Group here.. Sally Morgan Psychic or Charlatan?

It won't let me post the link, but its facebook group 'Sally morgan psychic or charlatan' You can join it and contribute to the discussions between 'believers' and skeptics.
I personally am 100% sure she's a :jaw-dropp faker.
 
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