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TV Psychic Sally Morgan fails to forsee ri ra at Dublin gig

  • 20-06-2013 1:20pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭


    Do many people believe this psychic lark or is it just the feeble minded?

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    Daily Mail to pay £125,000 libel damages over TV psychic 'scam' claimPaper apologises over article making untrue allegation that Sally Morgan used hidden earpiece to scam theatre audience


    Thursday 20 June 2013 06.25 EDT

    Sally-Morgan-008.jpg Sally Morgan: the TV psychic will receive £125,000 from the Daily Mail after it made an untrue claim. Photograph: ITV

    The Daily Mail has apologised and agreed to pay £125,000 in libel damages to a TV psychic it falsely accused of using a hidden earpiece to scam a theatre audience.

    Sally Morgan, who has appeared on TV and on stage under the name "Psychic Sally", complained that the article in September 2011 meant she had "deliberately and dishonestly" tricked her audience in Dublin.

    The article, by the magician Paul Zenon, claimed that Morgan had used a hidden earpiece during her performance in order to receive instructions and relay them on stage as if they were messages from the spiritual world.

    In a statement at the high court on Thursday, the solicitor for Morgan, Graham Atkins of the law firm Atkins Thomson, said the article had "caused enormous distress" to the psychic.

    "The allegation contained in the article that Mrs Morgan cheated the audience in Dublin is completely false and defamatory of her," he told Mr Justice Tugendhat.

    "It also caused enormous distress to Mrs Morgan, who decided, given the newspaper's initial defence of the article, that she had no choice but to commence legal proceedings against the publisher of the Daily Mail."

    The solicitor Brid Jordan appeared on behalf of the Daily Mail publisher, Associated Newspapers, and apologised unreservedly for the hidden earpiece claim "which it accepts is untrue".

    Atkins told the court that the article appeared in the Daily Mail "in the context of a general attack on psychics as being charlatans".

    The claim about the hidden earpiece arose during a phone-in programme on Irish radio when two women who attended the Dublin show said they thought they had heard two crew members saying something which Morgan then repeated on stage.

    Following the claim, Morgan issued a statement debunking the claim as "nonsense" and the theatre separately denied there had been any scam.

    It later emerged that the crew members who were said to be part of the setup were subcontracted by the theatre and not members of Morgan's team.

    Morgan, who claims on her website to "see and hear dead people", first appeared on TV with the ITV2 series Sally Morgan: Star Psychic in 2007. She went on to front a number of shows, including Sky Living's documentary Psychic Sally Big Fat Operation and series Psychic Sally on the Road.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    RiRa? a what now? Why wasn't whatever that is explained in the article you linked?

    I really don't feel comfortable "discussing" this. :o


  • Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Wow, to have to pay damages for saying a psychic is full of **** is pretty amazing. All the things they could have said and instead they make something up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭EuskalHerria


    Is this that lunatic that tried to sue Derren Brown after she made a cùnt of herself on one of his tv shows?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man







    She went on to front a number of shows, including Sky Living's documentary Psychic Sally Big Fat Operation and series Psychic Sally on the Road.
    Gutted I missed those two.:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    RiRa? a what now? Why wasn't whatever that is explained in the article you linked?

    I really don't feel comfortable "discussing" this. :o

    Sorry Dravokivich. Should have used lower case. ri ra means uproar or commotion.

    Nothing to do with the Real ri ra, the 32 County ri ra or the Continuity ri ra :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 386 ✭✭lmao


    For anybody who has not seen Sally Morgan on Richard Bacon's radioshow on BBC5 live. What an absolute chancer she is!




    And this is the chapter he has in his recent book describing what he thought of her so called reading! Well worth a read.

    http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Extract-3-Series-of-Unrelated-Events.pdf


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    Gutted I missed those two.:(

    Now, if you were psychic you would have those dates indelibly printed in your brain. Or else you're in the early stages of you-know-what :)


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Ffs, do some people still believe in this psychics and astrology ****e?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    Ffs, do some people still believe in this psychics and astrology ****e?
    I knew you were going to say that.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    I knew you were going to say that.

    I was testing you Backwards Man. Well done, from now on you shall be called The Forwards Man ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    I was testing you Backwards Man. Well done, from now on you shall be called The Forwards Man ;)

    A kinda not backward about coming forward, like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Wow, to have to pay damages for saying a psychic is full of **** is pretty amazing. All the things they could have said and instead they make something up.

    It's not for saying she's full of **** that they're in trouble, it's for claiming she was being fed lines through an earpiece. She obviously doesn't need an earpiece to spout shít.


  • Posts: 5,285 [Deleted User]


    So was she getting things right ?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    So was she getting things right ?
    She correctly guessed that somebody in the audience recently lost a family member called John, or Jack. Or Jim. Definitely something J. Ghosts tend to mumble.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    "I believe this was a sad death, hmm? Every.............everybody was sad??"

    "OHMAGAWD, Yes!!!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    She correctly guessed that somebody in the audience recently lost a family member called John, or Jack. Or Jim. Definitely something J. Ghosts tend to mumble.

    Only over their names though. They're usually very clear that the person needs to be careful when driving or that they know someone who is a woman, or will do soon. The do seem to struggle with their own names though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,669 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Realistically they should be banned from making any comments about the after life etc and be made wear a big shirt saying "Completely bogus. For entertainment purposes only"

    But if they did that they'd have to make priests do the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    I have no problem with psychics making money of gullible people. Similarly I have no problem with someone taking money off the Daily Mail


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    I have no problem with psychics making money of gullible people. Similarly I have no problem with someone taking money off the Daily Mail

    They're not necessarily just gullible though, they could be wracked with grief and have been fed nonsense about an afterlife by people in positions of authority all their lives. Really it's the religions that set people up to be preyed on by psychics, pedalling this afterlife nonsense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    kylith wrote: »
    They're not necessarily just gullible though, they could be wracked with grief and have been fed nonsense about an afterlife by people in positions of authority all their lives. Really it's the religions that set people up to be preyed on by psychics, pedalling this afterlife nonsense.

    I.e. gullible. I've heard plenty of spiritual and paranormal nonsense in my time


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    Love that Richard Bacon chapter ha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    Surely she should have seen this coming? ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    I have no problem with psychics making money of gullible people. Similarly I have no problem with someone taking money off the Daily Mail

    how about the daily mail taking money off people though hmmm :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,072 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Reading Auras is like reading minds or tea-leaves or star-signs or meridian lines
    These people aren't applying a skill, they're either lying or mentally ill.
    Same goes for people who claim they hear God's demands or Spiritual healers who think they've magic hands.

    By the way, why do we think it is it OK for people to pretend they can talk to the dead?
    Isn't that totally ****ed in the head?
    Lying to some crying woman whose child has died and telling her you're in touch with the other side?
    I think that's fundamentally sick
    Do we need to clarify here that there's no such thing as a psychic?

    What are we, ****ing 2?
    Do we actually think that Horton Heard a Who?
    Do we still believe that Santa brings us gifts?
    That Michael Jackson didn't have facelifts?
    Are we still so stunned by circus tricks that we think that the dead would wanna talk to pricks like John Edwards Sally Morgan?

    Sums my view up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Xivilai


    The Real IRA? What do they want with her :O


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    I.e. gullible. I've heard plenty of spiritual and paranormal nonsense in my time

    Well, yes, gullible. But can you really blame, say, a grieving mother for trying anything to contact a child taken from her, whom her priest has told her is waiting for her just beyond the veil? Grief clouds the mind, and while the problem is people's gullibility I would lay the blame squarely at the feet of the lying scammers who take advantage of the bereaved.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    'And she was young when she died'

    'She was 93'

    'Aye, but she were young at heart'

    Love Clinton Baptiste. If you haven't seen him, YouTube it.



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