Paul Zenon on 'Psychic' Sally Morgan, BBC News

[california1991cation]

at 8.55 am when kids may be watching he goes "we'd all like to believe in the the tooth fairy or santa" some kid just got destroyed before going off to school lol but he makes excellent points only just discover paul zenon somehow :S fantastic!!

[chestypants78]

My dead relatives are watching me? What about when I'm polishing my rhubarb?

[acidlip]

Totally agree with Paul Zenon !

[scaffolderrrr]

Physic Sally is a big fraud who preys on the gullable and the stupid.

[Houdini2323]

@scaffolderrrr - but sadly on the elderly, bereaved and grieving too.

[checkoutgirl]

@Houdini2323 A person can be elderly and gullible at the same time.

[Houdini2323]

@checkoutgirl No shit?!

[danbower88]

Well said Paul Zenon!

[thefrogger18]

@bettyboolfc maybe you just need a new outlook on death, if indeed there is an afterlife it also means there are infinite possibilities of what they is, it's almost more comforting to believe there is nothing than, as some believe, just soles just flying around until they have the chance to contact someone

[bettyboolfc]

I am grieving at the moment, thought looking at clips would help me. My heads a mess and I just wan't to believe that spirits exist and that we dont all just end up in the ground rotting away :-/

From watching clips and comments on here though it's putting me off

[Houdini2323]

@bettyboolfc Unfortunately the truth is often not what we want to believe, and that is what makes people like you particularly vulnerable to exploitation by so-called mediums. What you have to consider is that anyone actually had 'the gift' of being able to communicate with the dead, how would they ever justify charging money for it? And why aren't they all rich from finding lost treasures, etc, rather than having to claw their money from bereaved people?

[Benjiinsanity]

@bettyboolfc If the people you have lost want to contact you they will, but they'll cut out the middle man..... They wouldn't want you to spend your hard earned cash on any of these people.

[nbrado]

you might find this one amusing watch?v=mb38MDqFcH8

[pwuk]

anyone can talk to the dead, just the talking back bit is a bit tricky.

[thedeeliciousplum]

Thank you so much for sharing this vid.

[bettyboolfc]

I think this guy is very bitter in my view!

[Houdini2323]

@bettyboolfc Indeed - fancy being upset about about something as trivial as old, lonely and grieving people being exploited by parasites.

[nbrado]

@Houdini2323 couldn't agree more with your statement! spiritual parasites the lot of em!

[synsei1]

I saw she refused a Million $ to prove her psychic powers but sued him for 150,000 instead. She gave no specific reason why. The psychics' typical excuse is that staining their hands with the dirty materialists' money would corrupt their gift but she can keep the 150,000 she asks for and give the other 850,000 to someone else, like Red Cross or whatever charities she wants. How cruel is it to refuse such a benevolent gesture when you have the opportunity to do it?

[FlowersInHisHair]

OF COURSE psychics are making it all up - they claim to be talking to dead people, right?

[Houdini2323]

30th January 2012 - 'Psychic' Sally is taking legal action against the Daily Mail over Paul Zenon's article written immediately prior to this interview in September 2011.

[spookycheeseballs]

Are you trying to tell me that the dead don't talk to the living from beyond the grave ? I'm gobsmacked lol

[Annihilatenow]

He is 100% right. It's disgusting.

[llwayneio]

I am suprised at the amount of people that actually buy into mediums and psychics.

[dew02005]

Yeah.. a little knowledge can do alot of harm in the wrong hands.

[thepostal15]

What pisses me off is that, shes got lots of money from this, for fucking acting contacting the dead, what a load of bull.

[MrSamdexter]

Sally Morgan Is very much a fake. No real mediums just very greedy people who use gullible people to feed them.

[salerio61]

@MrSamdexter there are no real mediums

[MrSamdexter]

Sally Morgan has greed coming out of her ears. hate her and her fat husband...fake,fake,fake

[DanJCunningham]

zenon's description of cold reading is quite unsophisticated.

[Houdini2323]

@DanJCunningham Yes, despite the hours or air time given to him for the points that he was trying to get across. Very much looking forward to seeing your (hopefully similarly interrupted or discouraged) sophisticated version on the BBC.

[DanJCunningham]

@Houdini2323 what a silly thing to say.

[Houdini2323]

@DanJCunningham That's okay; you're forgiven.

[moralreef]

@Houdini2323 hahahahaha, showed him

[mrwebb195]

if the dead could talk y dnt people ask what its like to be in heaven its all bullshit

[zimmoframen]

...you mean santa and the tooth fairy aren't real? :(

[Houdini2323]

@zimmoframen If they were, at least they would be doing something benificient.

[Houdini2323]

(Or even benificent!)

[ElledieWildAndFree]

@Houdini2323 Or even beneficial

[Houdini2323]

@ElledieWildAndFree - although that would also be true, I actually did mean benificent.

[ElledieWildAndFree]

@Houdini2323 OK,Sorry,I'll mind my own business,then.

[Chez71rottie]

Check out "Hitler is informed Psychic Sally is a fraud" also on youtube :)

[roxyqueen2]

the worst thing is that she's exploiting peoples' grief to make a living.

[theguywholaughed]

I HEARD IT! SHE'S A FAKE END OF

[TheRuiMartins]

MAGICIANS and the sort, do not attract as much interest as mediums and psychics. And they simply see their ART being mocked and reduced to "entertainment" rather than something real, definitely more important than card tricks. I am sure the greedy ones are not the mediums or the psychics but the "wanna-be"'s.

[Houdini2323]

@TheRuiMartins Ah yes, all those wannabes like Paul, Derren Brown, David Blaine, David Copperfield - how I bet they wish they could be as successful as all those internationally famous psychics like...er...

It isn't 'art' dicksplash, it's morally bankrupt claptrap which preys on the vulnerable. You don't seem to be able to grasp the concept that the point of doing magic is for entertainment. If you don't consider 'mediums' to be greedy, ask yourself why they charge money at all for their 'gift'.

[TheRuiMartins]

@Houdini2323 - You are a looser and a fucking coward. Your control of my comments proves just that. Get a backbone and a life. A critic is what I said it is and you are just one!

[Houdini2323]

@TheRuiMartins Spelling hasn't improved then? I agree with you - Paul Zenon is one of the best critics, but not for those reasons. Re control of your comments, they are still here whereas you block your profile before posting - very brave from someone describing me as a coward - apparently though you're not 'The Rui Martins' that your username suggests, you are one of the less successful of many. I am going to block you now though, purely because you are an abusive thick turd. Get an afterlife.

[calumacky]

@TheRuiMartins

You would really benefit from reading Derren Brown's book 'Tricks of the Mind' or Carl Sagan's 'The Demon Haunted World'. Derren more so if you're interested in psychics. When you see the cheap techniques used and the complete lies that these psychics are guilty of it's a real eye opener. Especially funny when Derren rips it into Colin Fry and his trumpet!

Amazing how someone can be shown to be a fraud (Colin Fry, Peter Popoff, Uri Gellar etc) and go on with no repercussions.

[linlinro2012]

@TheRuiMartins Bloody hell you're boring...

[TheRuiMartins]

THE BEST CRITICS ARE THE ONES WHO FAILED TO PERFORM THEIR ART. Magicians criticize mediums and psychics the same way poor people criticizes the wealthy. Not all millionaires were dishonest and, certainly, not all mediums and Psychics were as well. But criticism is good because it helps poor people to accept their condition and failed mediums/psychics to accept their failure. This analogy should help understanding the criticism/envy among us!

[Houdini2323]

@TheRuiMartins That is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. No comparison: for one, you are assuming that magicians want to be regarded like 'psychics' - Paul Zenon has clearly stated that he wasn't comfortable manipulating people in that way for money. If he was he would have clearly carried on doing it as he's good at it (see the 'This Morning' clip). Secondly, magicians are very honest in the sense that they freely admit that they use tricks for entertainment purposes...

[Houdini2323]

@TheRuiMartins ...Thirdly, who actually said that anyone 'criticizes' [sic] the wealthy here? Zenon is very successful as a magician (and obviously with no desire to pretend that he has 'psychic' or 'supernatural' powers), and actually he is a millionaire (Sterling rather than Dollars). So in terms of 'THE BEST CRITICS' (your childish capitals), he's about as well informed as you're likely to get, and certainly not one who's 'FAILED TO PERFORM THEIR ART' - pretty much the opposite.

[alanthe2]

@TheRuiMartins to use the immortal words of the amazing character that is Malcolm Tucker (whom you may or may not know) "YOU MASSIVE GAY SHITE, FUCK OFF"

[soilb0y]

Well said Paul. Let's see how much difference it makes. Hmmm I'm getting something...SOD ALL!

[MusicGandhi]

stupid bitch

[pookomoo]

most of us already know that she is a fake automatically because you cannot speak to dead people. hopefully this video will stop everyone else believing in that fraud

[hanomac1]

Ive known for years that this woman is a fraud,No one can speak to the dead end of.Maybe all the people who have paid to see this women should sue her and get their money back.I noticed the ear peice over year ago and their was no microphone attached to it.Shame on living tv for showing this woman conning people!

[culturebully3]

well said paul

[culturebully3]

she is full of shit and she knows it

[smallblueclouds]

@culturebully3

"she is full of shit and she knows it"

Hey, come on, that's a little unfair, she's not entirely made of shit, there is a thin covering of what appears to be a decorative skin like material keeping the shit in the shape of a fraud.

[AndTheBeatStaysOn]

Thank you BBC for not feeling the need to "Balance" this interview with a evil fuckwit psychic.

[scherzomortale]

in a nutshell.......dead people can not talk.......end of.

[docpaul]

Being open minded, I am yet to be presented with compelling evidence for any psychic or supernatural powers, but I am open to hear it.

Project Barnum would be happy to help Sally Morgan clear her name. Get in touch at info@projectbarnum.co.uk and they can arrange testing under controlled conditions.

[nowimgivingup]

I watched Sallys shows on tv..looked forward to tuesday evenings...told my daughter to watch.....thought she was great...we booked tickets to see her at Folkestone Kent...sat there in dis-belief how BAD the show was...everyone was complaining leaving the theartre...near us anyway...she obviously had no prompting cause show was a disgrace ..total guess work..nonsense and fishing with a buit of comedy..my daughter was so upset..now thinks theres nothing after life..cause of this fraudster

[Houdini2323]

@nowimgivingup That will be because she's not wearing an earpiece this week after the allegations and therefore has to rely on memorising things from the questions written down before the show. The second half should be better as her crew will have had plenty of time to use the Internet for research. She should still be okay though; the old timers had to rely on local newspaper obituaries rather than Google!

[Smithpolly]

@nowimgivingup All those types of psychic shows are edited to make the "psychic" look good.

[LeySun]

@nowimgivingup There IS an afterlife, namley, the life that comes after ours. A healthy planet, the skills we teach our kids and the love we surround their hearts with IS the legacy and the ONLY legacy that a noble, brave and honorable person could hope to have. We are part of the after-life of those who fought for our privileges, technology and freedoms and we would do well to contribute and protect them. Abandon superstition and embrace the noble task of forging a world worth living in.

[smallblueclouds]

@LeySun

Well said !

[ifedthehorse]

@nowimgivingup

Oh no, that's terrible! What will she do now? Appreciate her time alive on the planet instead? Poor girl.

[mufc4527]

@nowimgivingup

there isn't an afterlife, so if sally morgans shit show taught you that the night wasn't a complete loss.

[DjmaladineAbdujaporo]

amazing interview Paul