Its been announced that Derek Kiora is leaving Most Haunted. What do you think? Will the prog get better or worse?
I'll miss his possessions.
Full Version: So Derek is leaving!
Ooooooo!!
to your question......I dont know, as long as its not one of those poncy ones who takes his place, you know the one I mean, cant think of his name right now but I know he rritates the hell out of me
to your question......I dont know, as long as its not one of those poncy ones who takes his place, you know the one I mean, cant think of his name right now but I know he rritates the hell out of me
I know the one you mean 
He's a bit like Christopher Biggins!
He's a bit like Christopher Biggins!
Yay..... One down... (How many more to go ?) But then, you know my thoughts on 'Well Taunted'.
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Never trusted the guy anyway. Maybe it was the chav gold he wore.
Yeah, the reflections from the bling wiped out a couple of night vision cameras 
You two!!!
Hes probably a lovely man!
Hes probably a lovely man!
Am sure he is !! Keeps Argos afloat anyway !
and Benson & Hedges allegedly
Such cynicism!
The new medium is called Gorden something or other!
I actually quite like the bloke as a personality, just find it difficult to believe what comes out of his mouth most of the time. He's a good entertainer but that's not what I want to see.
The Gopher?
I have to say, I like Yvette better. She is very entertaining, she gets so terrified its hilarious!
That girl (?) gets so scared, she even scares me !!!
Aw bless her!
I'd be scared too, the stuff she has to do, poor girl.
I'd be scared too, the stuff she has to do, poor girl.
Its scary to think how much money Yvette is earning from MH, she's the producer.
Is she? Ooh 'eck she'll be loaded then!
This is great!! I mean really great!!
the new medium presenter will be ......drum roll....
Gordon Smith!!
I have seen him on tv once before and he is bloody fantastic!!
the seventh son of a seventh son no less and he is so accurate its untrue!!!
read about him here
I agree there are a few who havent a clue and make it up as they go along but this chap...WOW!!!
he still works full time as a barber, and when I saw him on the telly he seems like a really nice bloke.
I for one will be watching MH again, a returnee if you will
the new medium presenter will be ......drum roll....
Gordon Smith!!
I have seen him on tv once before and he is bloody fantastic!!
the seventh son of a seventh son no less and he is so accurate its untrue!!!
read about him here
I agree there are a few who havent a clue and make it up as they go along but this chap...WOW!!!
he still works full time as a barber, and when I saw him on the telly he seems like a really nice bloke.
I for one will be watching MH again, a returnee if you will
Oooooo, he is supposed to be really good. He's a barber in Edinburgh and people are flocking to see him 
Gordon Smith popped onto most haunted last night, dont know if you saw?
It was quite funny actually, he made some comment about how the two mediums there were picking up on all this activity and nothing was happening, and he said that if they are picking stuff up then really there should be activity!!
he was almost accussing them of being BS'ers!
~ I looked on his web site and saw he is visiting a town near me to do an audience evening.....yes I booked tickets!
I will let you know in the new year then!
Any way, bye bye to Derek Acorah, its been fun
and I wish him luck on his new show ghost towns
It was quite funny actually, he made some comment about how the two mediums there were picking up on all this activity and nothing was happening, and he said that if they are picking stuff up then really there should be activity!!
he was almost accussing them of being BS'ers!
~ I looked on his web site and saw he is visiting a town near me to do an audience evening.....yes I booked tickets!
I will let you know in the new year then!
Any way, bye bye to Derek Acorah, its been fun
and I wish him luck on his new show ghost towns
Its an end of an era mate, sob 
The new series is starting tonight with Gordon Smith. I saw a clip on MH live last night and he looks good. Seems more laid back than Derek
I'm looking forward to his stint, but it will be difficult getting used to no Derek.....at this moment in time
I'm looking forward to his stint, but it will be difficult getting used to no Derek.....at this moment in time
QUOTE (Dax @ Nov 1 2005, 04:45 PM)
Any way, bye bye to Derek Acorah, its been fun
and I wish him luck on his new show ghost towns
and I wish him luck on his new show ghost towns
Oh no, they've not given Hissing Sid (the mincing flid) more airtime.... For Gods Sakes.
Did anyone catch the things Wobbie Williams said about him in the Times ????
Oooooooooohhhh we are so beyond handbags here.
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Thanks for the link Dax.
We're going to book tickets to see a show he is doing in a town we used to live in years ago. Looks like it's going to be a very good evening and we will get to visit our old Pizza Hut as well.
We're going to book tickets to see a show he is doing in a town we used to live in years ago. Looks like it's going to be a very good evening and we will get to visit our old Pizza Hut as well.
OOohh!!
we can compare notes afterwards Igor!
two views on wether he is the real deal or not
we can compare notes afterwards Igor!
two views on wether he is the real deal or not
She Who Must Be Obeyed wanted to watch his Haunted Towns prog before work last night. (thanks dear, just what I need sleeping alone in what used to be a Spiritualist Chapel 
). Ye Gods, my first impression was, why does everyone have such bad teeth ? Sorry, but there it was (or they were) must be something in the water wherever he was. Two of the women he was chatting to were actually evil puppets from the Chill RPG system and the Drama..... ooohh come on,he must be in Panto this year ?
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). Ye Gods, my first impression was, why does everyone have such bad teeth ? Sorry, but there it was (or they were) must be something in the water wherever he was. Two of the women he was chatting to were actually evil puppets from the Chill RPG system and the Drama..... ooohh come on,he must be in Panto this year ?Ogre
Ha ha, Degsy in Panto.....
Audience: 'He's behind you'
Degsy: 'Thats right children, thats Sam that is. Now who wants to come on stage and play with my Ouji board?'
He's got to do it.
Audience: 'He's behind you'
Degsy: 'Thats right children, thats Sam that is. Now who wants to come on stage and play with my Ouji board?'
He's got to do it.
I have only caught one of the haunted town thingies, and no I was not impressed!
going round a circle one bright spark said "can you touch someones face please?"
then as if by magic they all were like "oh my God, I can feel something on my face!!"
yeah, wot ever!!
don't think I will bother with anymore theres a lot more intresting scifi on telly on the moment to spend my time on
going round a circle one bright spark said "can you touch someones face please?"
then as if by magic they all were like "oh my God, I can feel something on my face!!"
yeah, wot ever!!
don't think I will bother with anymore
theres a lot more intresting scifi on telly on the moment to spend my time on
I wouldn't personally bother with most haunted or derek acorah as a whole.
Ghost towns is a farce, we were asked to do the essex episodes, from what ive heard about the show i thank god we didn't.
Most Haunted have just got away with legal action for the fraudulant show - they got away with it by saying its only an enterainment program - says it all really.
The reason derek left is that he got caught out faking. i think the trick was played on him a few times and he fell for it everytime. Here is a couple of news items explaining what happened:
MOST HAUNTED'S KREED KAFER OUTCRY REVELATION
Living TV’s psychic and spiritualist medium Derek Acorah, 56, was asked to explain allegations of deception where he claimed to have taken on the identity of a long-dead South African male known as Kreed Kafer - an anagram of Derek Faker, which had been allegedly used by a Most Haunted crew member in ear shot of Acorah to discredit him during a recent shoot at Bodmin GAOL.
The shows resident academic and sceptic Ciaran O’Keeffe of Liverpool’s Hope University has backed up this claim and said, “I only devised this plan to see if Derek was deliberately hoodwinking the public.”
However we can exclusively reveal after months of silence that Acorah has finally given his version of events. He told us, “I’d just like to say on virtually all psychic activity, I rely on my spiritualist guide I call Sam, but sometimes I rely heavily on my own spiritual guilds that are a custom to my surroundings and the atmosphere that I am upon. When I get possessed, I cannot remember any of the actions of who has taken over me or that of my surroundings. On this occasion where the spirit Kreed Kafer came to me, I can say that I had, yes had been taken over by an entity, but the identity would have been other than that of the name that came from me. One explanation of what could have occurred is that the spirit that took on board myself had heard one of the crew members mention the character Kreed Kafer and this individual took on that name by means of fraud or because many people in the very distant past did not have names so this entity decided to use the one he had overheard. Another explanation is that I did hear in passing the name Kreed Kafer, and when I did take on board the spirit I made a genuine mistake and wrongly associated this name with the spirit. I am human and can make mistakes, especially when I am under the pressure of a reading or being taken over by an overbearing entity. I do however have a strong successful following in the spiritualist field and I do believe that I am a genuine medium. I am sorry if any of my lovely fans were offended by this mistake.”
We asked O’Keeffe about Acorah’s version and he told us “I believe the public will see through this as all we are seeing is showmanship and dramatics”.
It is claimed that Acorah was asked to leave by the shows production company Antix, but is now involved in a similar ghost hunting format on cable TV.
By Peter Taylor.
6th march 2006
AND ANOTHER
28 October 2005
SPOOKY TRUTH: TV'S MOST HAUNTED CON EXPOSED TV
By Matt Roper
THE TV show that has spooked millions with its footage of hauntings and poltergeists is today exposed as a fake - by one its own stars.
Resident parapsychologist Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe has sensationally lifted the lid on the ghosthunting series, Most Haunted ... and claims that the public are being deceived by "showmanship and dramatics."
He accuses the show's medium Derek Acorah of hoodwinking viewers by pretending to communicate with spirits and obtaining information about locations prior to filming.
The Mirror has also obtained unedited footage which appears to show presenter Yvette Fielding and her husband faking 'paranormal' occurrences such as ghostly bumps and knocks.
Most Haunted has quickly achieved cult status since it was launched in 2002 and is LivingTV's most successful programme.
Millions of viewers tune in regularly to watch Ex-Blue Peter girl Yvette and her team of ghost hunters spend the night in some of Britain's most haunted locations.
It has made Acorah - who claims to be guided by an Ethiopian spirit guide called Sam - into one of the country's best-known psychics.
Tonight the show will start its biggest ever live vigil, a four-night Halloween special from East London following the murderous trail of Jack the Ripper.
Yvette Fielding has said of the show - which is made by her husband Karl Beattie's production company Antix Productions: "There is no acting in this programme, none whatsoever. Everything you see and you hear is real. It's not made up, it's not acted."
But our investigation reveals how the programme uses careful editing to mislead viewers and, on at least one occasion, has even lied about the location of filming.
Ciaran, a lecturer in the paranormal at Liverpool's Hope University, knows speaking out will probably put an end to his media career... but he believes viewers should know the truth.
He says: "I think it's time to open the dialogue about what I've experienced on Most Haunted. There have been many incidents with the medium that have been brushed under the carpet.
"I was put in the show to give a professional slant to it, to give it an element of credibility, but the sceptical argument is just swept away.
"In my opinion, we're not dealing with genuine mediumship."
He says he isn't the only member of the crew who feels viewers are being cheated.
"Other crew members have been irked by Derek and what's going on, because it turns what should be a serious investigation into a laughing matter."
And our exclusive footage shows other members of the team occasionally forget they are on camera.
One of our clips, later edited out, shows Karl push an unwitting sound man in the dark and pretend it was a poltergeist attack.
In the remaining footage he says (after surreptitiously hitting the soundman): "S**t, did you feel that?"
Yvette: Are you all right? What's happened?
Karl: I felt something touch me on my shoulder.
Soundman: I felt something hit me.
And in another edited clip with medium Ian Lawman, Yvette is seen on camera making a deep sigh. In the scene that eventually went to air, Ian (after Yvette sighs) says: "What's that noise?
Yvette: What noise? Like a moan?
Ian: Breathing or something.
Yvette: I heard like an 'arrggh'.
Ciaran, who joined Most Haunted in April 2004 became suspicious of Acorah's antics on a shoot at Castle Leslie, Co Monaghan in Ireland where a 17th Century four-poster bed has been claimed to levitate.
Ciaran recalls: "As we walked into the bedroom, Derek touched the bed and came out with extremely accurate information.
"He insisted he got all the information just from touching the bed. But it was the wrong bed."
Antix Productions claims the mediums have no idea where they will be filming or know any details about the history of the locations.
But Ciaran says: "Derek must have had prior knowledge of the locations."
He devised a plan to see if Derek was deliberately deceiving the public.
While on a shoot at Bodmin gaol he invented a long-dead South African jailer called Kreed Kafer - an anagram of Derek Faker.
"I wrote the name down and asked another member of the crew to mention it to Derek before filming.
"I honestly didn't think Derek would take the bait. But during the filming he actually got possessed by my fictional character!"
On the next shoot at Prideaux Place, Cornwall, Ciaran made up another fictional character, highwayman Rik Eedles - an anagram of Derek Lies. Sure enough, Derek made contact with the dead outlaw.
Ciaran says: "In my professional opinion we're not dealing with a genuine medium.
"When Derek is possessed he is doing it consciously - all we are seeing is showmanship and dramatics."
Ciaran went a step further at Craigievar Castle, near Aberdeen.
"I made up stories about Richard the Lionheart, a witch, and Richard's apparition appearing to walk through a wardrobe - the lion, the witch and the wardrobe!" True to form, Derek mentioned all Ciaran's stories - even though Richard I reigned 500 years BEFORE Craigievar Castle was built.
The final straw came last month when Most Haunted presented a three-night special from Manchester.
On the second evening, the show claimed to be broadcasting live from the site of Cheadle's Victorian asylum, a place where - according to presenter David Bull - thousands died in torment. In fact they were in the derelict remains of Barnes Convalescence Home - where nobody died in torment.
Ciaran remembers: "Derek was communicating with spirits that sounded as if they'd been in an asylum, but it was never an asylum."
Yesterday the Mirror confronted Derek Acorah with Ciaran's allegations. He told us: "I've worked with Ciaran for many shows and he's got every right to say what he says.
"However, it does shock and surprise me. Not only do I believe that I am a genuine medium - I live my work 24 hours a day. If I thought that I wasn't a true medium, I wouldn't work as one."
A spokesman for LivingTV said: "Ciaran O'Keeffe has worked as the programme's official sceptic for 18 months and during this time has not brought any of his concerns to our attention.
Ghost towns is a farce, we were asked to do the essex episodes, from what ive heard about the show i thank god we didn't.
Most Haunted have just got away with legal action for the fraudulant show - they got away with it by saying its only an enterainment program - says it all really.
The reason derek left is that he got caught out faking. i think the trick was played on him a few times and he fell for it everytime. Here is a couple of news items explaining what happened:
MOST HAUNTED'S KREED KAFER OUTCRY REVELATION
Living TV’s psychic and spiritualist medium Derek Acorah, 56, was asked to explain allegations of deception where he claimed to have taken on the identity of a long-dead South African male known as Kreed Kafer - an anagram of Derek Faker, which had been allegedly used by a Most Haunted crew member in ear shot of Acorah to discredit him during a recent shoot at Bodmin GAOL.
The shows resident academic and sceptic Ciaran O’Keeffe of Liverpool’s Hope University has backed up this claim and said, “I only devised this plan to see if Derek was deliberately hoodwinking the public.”
However we can exclusively reveal after months of silence that Acorah has finally given his version of events. He told us, “I’d just like to say on virtually all psychic activity, I rely on my spiritualist guide I call Sam, but sometimes I rely heavily on my own spiritual guilds that are a custom to my surroundings and the atmosphere that I am upon. When I get possessed, I cannot remember any of the actions of who has taken over me or that of my surroundings. On this occasion where the spirit Kreed Kafer came to me, I can say that I had, yes had been taken over by an entity, but the identity would have been other than that of the name that came from me. One explanation of what could have occurred is that the spirit that took on board myself had heard one of the crew members mention the character Kreed Kafer and this individual took on that name by means of fraud or because many people in the very distant past did not have names so this entity decided to use the one he had overheard. Another explanation is that I did hear in passing the name Kreed Kafer, and when I did take on board the spirit I made a genuine mistake and wrongly associated this name with the spirit. I am human and can make mistakes, especially when I am under the pressure of a reading or being taken over by an overbearing entity. I do however have a strong successful following in the spiritualist field and I do believe that I am a genuine medium. I am sorry if any of my lovely fans were offended by this mistake.”
We asked O’Keeffe about Acorah’s version and he told us “I believe the public will see through this as all we are seeing is showmanship and dramatics”.
It is claimed that Acorah was asked to leave by the shows production company Antix, but is now involved in a similar ghost hunting format on cable TV.
By Peter Taylor.
6th march 2006
AND ANOTHER
28 October 2005
SPOOKY TRUTH: TV'S MOST HAUNTED CON EXPOSED TV
By Matt Roper
THE TV show that has spooked millions with its footage of hauntings and poltergeists is today exposed as a fake - by one its own stars.
Resident parapsychologist Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe has sensationally lifted the lid on the ghosthunting series, Most Haunted ... and claims that the public are being deceived by "showmanship and dramatics."
He accuses the show's medium Derek Acorah of hoodwinking viewers by pretending to communicate with spirits and obtaining information about locations prior to filming.
The Mirror has also obtained unedited footage which appears to show presenter Yvette Fielding and her husband faking 'paranormal' occurrences such as ghostly bumps and knocks.
Most Haunted has quickly achieved cult status since it was launched in 2002 and is LivingTV's most successful programme.
Millions of viewers tune in regularly to watch Ex-Blue Peter girl Yvette and her team of ghost hunters spend the night in some of Britain's most haunted locations.
It has made Acorah - who claims to be guided by an Ethiopian spirit guide called Sam - into one of the country's best-known psychics.
Tonight the show will start its biggest ever live vigil, a four-night Halloween special from East London following the murderous trail of Jack the Ripper.
Yvette Fielding has said of the show - which is made by her husband Karl Beattie's production company Antix Productions: "There is no acting in this programme, none whatsoever. Everything you see and you hear is real. It's not made up, it's not acted."
But our investigation reveals how the programme uses careful editing to mislead viewers and, on at least one occasion, has even lied about the location of filming.
Ciaran, a lecturer in the paranormal at Liverpool's Hope University, knows speaking out will probably put an end to his media career... but he believes viewers should know the truth.
He says: "I think it's time to open the dialogue about what I've experienced on Most Haunted. There have been many incidents with the medium that have been brushed under the carpet.
"I was put in the show to give a professional slant to it, to give it an element of credibility, but the sceptical argument is just swept away.
"In my opinion, we're not dealing with genuine mediumship."
He says he isn't the only member of the crew who feels viewers are being cheated.
"Other crew members have been irked by Derek and what's going on, because it turns what should be a serious investigation into a laughing matter."
And our exclusive footage shows other members of the team occasionally forget they are on camera.
One of our clips, later edited out, shows Karl push an unwitting sound man in the dark and pretend it was a poltergeist attack.
In the remaining footage he says (after surreptitiously hitting the soundman): "S**t, did you feel that?"
Yvette: Are you all right? What's happened?
Karl: I felt something touch me on my shoulder.
Soundman: I felt something hit me.
And in another edited clip with medium Ian Lawman, Yvette is seen on camera making a deep sigh. In the scene that eventually went to air, Ian (after Yvette sighs) says: "What's that noise?
Yvette: What noise? Like a moan?
Ian: Breathing or something.
Yvette: I heard like an 'arrggh'.
Ciaran, who joined Most Haunted in April 2004 became suspicious of Acorah's antics on a shoot at Castle Leslie, Co Monaghan in Ireland where a 17th Century four-poster bed has been claimed to levitate.
Ciaran recalls: "As we walked into the bedroom, Derek touched the bed and came out with extremely accurate information.
"He insisted he got all the information just from touching the bed. But it was the wrong bed."
Antix Productions claims the mediums have no idea where they will be filming or know any details about the history of the locations.
But Ciaran says: "Derek must have had prior knowledge of the locations."
He devised a plan to see if Derek was deliberately deceiving the public.
While on a shoot at Bodmin gaol he invented a long-dead South African jailer called Kreed Kafer - an anagram of Derek Faker.
"I wrote the name down and asked another member of the crew to mention it to Derek before filming.
"I honestly didn't think Derek would take the bait. But during the filming he actually got possessed by my fictional character!"
On the next shoot at Prideaux Place, Cornwall, Ciaran made up another fictional character, highwayman Rik Eedles - an anagram of Derek Lies. Sure enough, Derek made contact with the dead outlaw.
Ciaran says: "In my professional opinion we're not dealing with a genuine medium.
"When Derek is possessed he is doing it consciously - all we are seeing is showmanship and dramatics."
Ciaran went a step further at Craigievar Castle, near Aberdeen.
"I made up stories about Richard the Lionheart, a witch, and Richard's apparition appearing to walk through a wardrobe - the lion, the witch and the wardrobe!" True to form, Derek mentioned all Ciaran's stories - even though Richard I reigned 500 years BEFORE Craigievar Castle was built.
The final straw came last month when Most Haunted presented a three-night special from Manchester.
On the second evening, the show claimed to be broadcasting live from the site of Cheadle's Victorian asylum, a place where - according to presenter David Bull - thousands died in torment. In fact they were in the derelict remains of Barnes Convalescence Home - where nobody died in torment.
Ciaran remembers: "Derek was communicating with spirits that sounded as if they'd been in an asylum, but it was never an asylum."
Yesterday the Mirror confronted Derek Acorah with Ciaran's allegations. He told us: "I've worked with Ciaran for many shows and he's got every right to say what he says.
"However, it does shock and surprise me. Not only do I believe that I am a genuine medium - I live my work 24 hours a day. If I thought that I wasn't a true medium, I wouldn't work as one."
A spokesman for LivingTV said: "Ciaran O'Keeffe has worked as the programme's official sceptic for 18 months and during this time has not brought any of his concerns to our attention.
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