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

TheLastMohican

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: 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.

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.

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.

EuskalHerria

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

The Backwards Man

TheLastMohican wrote: »

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.:(

TheLastMohican

Dravokivich wrote: »

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

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

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

lmao

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNQtjepLlQQ

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

TheLastMohican

The Backwards Man wrote: »

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

Peregrine

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

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.

Peregrine

The Backwards Man wrote: »

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

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.

kylith

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

So was she getting things right ?

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

Duggy747

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

"OHMAGAWD, Yes!!!"

kylith

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

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.

--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

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.

--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

Thwip!

Love that Richard Bacon chapter ha

Merkin

Surely she should have seen this coming?

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

wp_rathead

Tim Minchin- Storm wrote:

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

Xivilai

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

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.

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.