Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)

I STILL NAG DEREK ..HE HASN’T GONE

Most Haunted star’s widow reveals she’s already in touch with him

- EXCLUSIVE BY JANINE YAQOOB TV Editor janine.yaqoob@reachplc.com BY KAREN ROCKETT

TV psychic Derek Acorah’s widow says she’s already talking to him beyond the grave just a week after his death.

Heartbroke­n Gwen, 71, said: “People may think I’m mad. But I’ve nagged him all his life so why shouldn’t I continue?”

She revealed she was “still in shock” over the Most Haunted star’s death

OFF FOR A SPIN Ben and son Layton

PSYCHIC TV’s Derek

NICE RUN OUT In top of the range Ferrari after flu symptoms turned into double pneumonia and sepsis.

“Derek never gave any indication he thought the time was nigh – he was so strong,” said Gwen who had been planning his 70th birthday with him. “He believed life goes on in another dimension. There’s comfort in that because it’s not a big blank wall and he’s gone. I keep thinking I must pick up the phone and tell Derek. I talk to him.” The Liverpudli­an

THIRD MAN Hero Ben with cricket fans rose to TV fame in the 90s as a self-styled medium and launched paranormal reality show Most Haunted in

SHOCKED Gwen 2002. He appeared on I’m A Celebrity in 2017. Gwen insists she’d never try to contact him using a medium. “I don’t need anyone to tell me Derek loved me,” she said.

IT’S red and it moves very quickly – rather like a cricket ball whacked by the star about to take its wheel.

England superhero Ben Stokes took his five-year-old son Layton for a spin in this £250,000 Ferrari F8 Tributo after landing man of the match for his performanc­e in a thrilling Second Test victory over South Africa at Newlands in Cape Town.

The 28-year-old all-rounder also lived up to his 2019 Sports Personalit­y of the Year award by posing for pictures and chatting to fans who spotted him behind the wheel.

It was Ben’s skill with the ball that clinched victory for England, taking the last three wickets. And he certainly knew just what to do to bowl his son over on his day off.

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