Derek
Acorah
Derek
Acorah, was born in Bootle a suburb of Liverpool, in the 1940s, and has been
aware of his spiritual gift from a very early age. When he saw his Grandfather, who was in
spirit, he told his Grandmother of this, but she was not surprised and
encouraged him with his gifts.
However,
like all young boys in Liverpool, Football was a bit of a priority, which also
got him into some trouble when his friend Jimmy Jones broke one of the windows
of his house and ran away and left Derek to take the blame. However, his ambitions edged him towards a
football career with Liverpool Football Team.
He was successful and actually got on to Bill Shankleys Golden
Team. Regrettably he never got to play
in the first eleven and remained a reserve player. He then moved to Australia were he played
professionally for a number of years, but due to injury, he had to give up
football.
During
all this time he never lost his ability as a medium, and often scared the pants
of some of his team mates, giving them little messages from spirit.
After
moving back to Liverpool, Derek was conducting
one-to-one sittings, initially from a small shop premises in the Wavertree area
of Liverpool and then subsequently from his office in Liverpool City Centre,
nobody dreamed that the cheeky, cheerful Scouse medium would one day grace
their television screens. One or two noted mediums on Liverpool circuit knew
that Derek "had something special" and what spirit had lined up for
him. It was Lilian Star who first told
him "I can see your name in lights". In those days Derek was surprised
and wondered what on earth she meant. He had no idea that Mrs. Star's words
would one day come true.
It
was a number of years later, as Dereks popularity grew, a researcher
for Granada Breeze, the satellite arm of Granada Television in Manchester, telephoned
Derek. She
said that she worked on a programme called "Livetime". That it was National Tea Week the
following week, and she thought that it would be a good idea to have a psychic
on to the programme to talk about the reading of tea leaves. "Sorry, I
dont read tea leaves" was Derek's response. The researcher, deaf to the
finer points of Spiritual, or psychic abilities, explained that her aunt had
visited Derek at his office and had received a superb, one-to-one reading. In
her aunts opinion, Derek was the only one who would be able to do the
programme any justice.
From that small
show, which actually went on for five years, Derek Acorahs life changed, He
went on to be ITVs Medium of Choice for many shows, and then on to became the
international super star and medium that we all know today.
Credits: The
Derek Acorah Website: www.derekacorah.org
The Psychic World of
Derek Acorah (His First Book)