A similar situation happened when the pop group Take That
appeared on the show. They'd just hit the charts with their first
single and we'd never heard of them. I think they must have found
it amusing when Jane, thinking that they were young 'runners', sent
Robbie Williams off to fetch her a cup of coffee. Surprisingly
he obeyed without a murmur!
It's
times like this that you realise that you're getting older
B ut the star that impressed us most must be the boxer Frank Bruno.
When he cottoned on that we were the show's psychics he started
pulling Jane's leg about being the 'Vibe Lady'. Frank was pure gold
and had us all laughing at his witty quips that were as quick as
his punches
We also met the boxer Chris
Eubank on the show but he was a little more serious to say the
least. He nearly bit Jane's head off when she said "You know
money's not everything Chris". Clearly money is pretty important
to him. However, we had a very interesting conversation with him
about 'the warrior spirit' just before, in serious mood, he strutted
off for his interview with Paula Yates
Paula wiped the floor with him
Most
of the stars we met were as you would expect them to be. Oliver
Reed was looking for the drinks cabinet, Glenda Jackson
never lifted her head from the newspaper and Jason Donovan
was as immaculate as his posters. Kylie Minogue was a bit
of a shock though because you just don't expect a mega star to be
quite that small! And super model Naiomi Campbell looked
great until she opened her mouth. To camera she speaks in a convincing
transatlantic accent. Off stage, her accent is from deepest Streatham.
Tom
Jones and his manager son were surprisingly approachable and
we enjoyed our dressing room chats with Billy Joe Spears,
Rupert Everett and Brother Beyond. Only a few month's
ago we'd never been into a TV studio except to take part in Kilroy.
Now we were mixing with the stars every week. When Doris Stokes
had told me at my private consultation with her that I'd marry a
girl called Jane and that together we'd be two of the world's top
mediums
I never really believed it. But here it was. It had all started
to come true.
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The
Big Breakfast was tremendous experience for us. It was a groundbreaking
style of production that required supreme confidence of delivery.
The time allocated to do our bit was worked out to the second so
we had to get it right first time and, at the same time, let our
personalities shine through. We jumped in at the deep end and swam.
After the frantic live TV style of the Big Breakfast any other TV
we would do would be easy.
Soon our faces were familiar to viewers and there followed a flood
of television offers
interested in our psychic and mediumistic work. Working for regional,
network and cable companies, we soon found ourselves being driven
or flown all over the country to take part in various features with
a paranormal theme. Some of our predictions on Channel 4 were even
screened on Fox Television in America.
We did the chat shows. Comfy pink settees at the crack of dawn.
And inevitably we would be asked to demonstrate our psychic skills
to titillate the viewers. For This Morning with Richard Madaley
we demonstrated flower reading and psychometry successfully and
then gave psychic readings to people who rang the show. We were
told not to do mediumship as 'it may be a little too serious for
a light entertainment show' but considering the pressure to 'perform'
our accuracy on the phone was very good.
Richard Madeley felt quite armoured toward psychic phenomena.
He admitted that like most people with a journalistic or media training
he was taught to be sceptical but believed we 'have tremendous guts
standing up in front of a camera and doing what you do. I find it
all hard to believe.' On the same show to promote a new book was
the famous journalist and one time editor of the Daily Express Eve
Pollard who was, to my surprise, very sociable, humorous and
apparently open minded about the existence of extra sensory perception.
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