Derek Acorah

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Derek Francis Acorah (born Derek Francis Johnson on January 27, 1950) is an English self-styled spiritual medium.

He is best known for his television appearance on Most Haunted, which was broadcast on Living TV (2002–2010).

He has been strongly chastised for his reputation as a medium.

Personal life

Acorah was first married to Joan Hughes from 1972 to 1982. The couple had a boy together as a child. From 1995 to his death in 2020, he was later married to his wife Gwen. The couple were patrons of the charity Pathfinder Guide Dog Programme, a registered charity that offers blind guide dogs.

Following a car accident, he was found guilty of driving without due care and concern and failing to provide a breath sample. Acorah had failed a roadside breath test but refused to take the required sample at a police station. He had been barred from driving for 28 months and fined £1,000.

Acorah died on January 4, 2020, aged 69, as a result of a short illness. Acorah had been hospitalized with pneumonia and later developed sepsis, according to his wife.

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Early life and football career

Derek Francis Johnson was born in Bootle on January 27th, 1950, to Frederick Johnson and Elizabeth Courtney. He grew up in Scarisbrick, North West England. Acorah said his first encounter with spiritualism occurred when he was six years old when he discovered his deceased grandfather in his grandmother's house. His grandmother, a psychic, would later influence his decision to become a medium.

Acorah spent his youth at Warwick Bolam Secondary School and then went on to play for Bootle Boys and then Wrexham's academy team when he was 13. Bill Shankly, a young boy, signed schoolboy terms with Liverpool at the time. Acorah has told Emlyn Hughes that he told him not to be cautious with his new car. "Where did you get all this stuff from?" Shankly had been up late for training the next day after writing the car off, and she told him, "Son, where did you get all this from?" Hughes said of Acorah's mediumship. You can't leave it at home; you just bring your boots and play football." In the years immediately following the Scotsman's death, Acorah said he had met Shankly in the spirit world. Acorah never made an appearance for the first squad and briefly retired for the reserves before being released by his hometown club. He returned to Wrexham, where he starred for about a year, and had stints with Glentoran and Stockport County. After the birth of his son, the player's union in Manchester contacted him if he wanted to play in Australia. He and his wife discussed the matter, but they made the change, where he appeared for the South Australian State League for the USC Lions. His time at the club was cut short due to sickness, putting an end to his football career. On top of all this, his wife was suffering from homesickness and they returned to England, but they fell soon after. He began working as a medium, adopting the surname Acorah, which he claimed descended from a Dutch ancestor.

Career

In 1996, Acorah's first television appearance was on Granada Breeze, a satellite television network. He started with Livetime before appearing on Psychic Live for five years during his five years with the channel before appearing on Psychic Live every week. He appeared on Predictions, which started out as a showcase for various studio guests, but then became a preposition for Acorah alone and renamed Predictions with Derek Acorah.

Acorah appeared in the television series Antiques Ghost Show in 2002, and the Variety Club of Great Britain's Multichannel TV Personality of the Year Award was given to him in 2004.

Acorah first appeared on a British television show called Haunting Truths in July 2001. It was then sold to Living and renamed Most Haunted. He appeared on the show for six seasons.

"There is no acting on this program," Yvette Fielding, a host and executive producer of Most Haunted, said at the start. Everything you see and hear is real." However, significant media attention was paid to the show in 2005, after Acorah claimed to channel spirits with names that had allegedly been suggested in advance, such as "Rik Eedles" and "Deree Kaffer" respectively, anagrams of "Derek Faker" and "Derek Faker." "We tell people everything is real, but it turns out he was a ripoff," Fielding said of Acorah in 2006. He appeared on the show regularly, most notably with Shirley Ghostman (portrayed by Marc Wootton), which drew on elements of Acorah and Colin Fry's plots, and Wootton invaded one of Acorah's shows. Dawn French was also parodied by Dawn French on an episode of French and Saunders, and Jon Culshaw on Dead Ringers.

Acorah's Quest for Guy Fawkes followed by Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns with Ruggie Media after his departure from Most Haunted in 2005. This series was the third in a row. Acorah appeared in two series called Derek Acorah on Sky Real Lives in 2008. He appeared in the Doctor Who episode "Army of Ghosts" in July 2006.

Acorah was featured in Michael Jackson's Live Seance in November 2009, in which he was seen on live television attempting to summon the singer's spirit. In a poll of over 9,000 Yahoo!, the show was named the worst television program of 2009. Users.

Celebrity Five Go to..., Harry Hill's TV Burp, Celebrity Quitters, and Paranormal Egypt are among Acorah's other television appearances. He also appeared on Celebrity Juice, Loose Lips, Richard and Judy, Bo' Selecta!, Science Abuse, Bo'Grady Show, The Weakest Link, and Loose Women. He appeared on film in Big Fat Gypsy Gangster (2011) and played a small part in Crispy's Curse (2017), but it was unable to find a general release.

Acorah reported to have received a psychic note from Madeleine McCann in May 2012, claiming that the child died some time ago but that it would soon be reincarnated. Acorah issued an apology to McCann's parents after widespread media outrage.

Acorah appeared on the television show The Past Hunters, which was released in 2015.

Acorah was a participant of the Celebrity Big Brother's twentieth series. On the last night, he stayed in fourth place.

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