Derek Acorah: I’m not afraid of the next life TV mystic’s message before sudden death at 69
PSYCHIC medium Derek Acorah has died at the age of 69, just a year after saying he was looking forward to passing into the spirit world.
The Most Haunted and Celebrity Big Brother star died in intensive care after falling into a coma.
On New Year’s Day he posted he had spent it “quietly at home” with wife Gwen, saying: “We’ve both had the awful flu bug which has brought us down so low.” He died two days later with Gwen telling his 214,000 Facebook fans: “Farewell my love! I will miss you forever! I’m devastated to announce my beloved husband Derek has passed away after a very brief illness.”
A year ago, Acorah told Celebrity Radio: “Death is a transition, it’s letting go of a way of life in the physical to go and see a broader scope of what is the intention for all us human beings. Life is continuous but in a different way. We are eternal. We can never be snuffed out.
“I know I will join my mum and dad and all my relatives. It is just a matter of time.”
Acorah, born Derek Johnson in Bootle, Merseyside, sprang to fame on TV series Most Haunted alongside Yvette Fielding.
But he left the show in 2005 after being tricked by crew members about a dead South African warden at Bodmin Jail in Cornwall called Kreed Kafer.
He failed to realise the name was an anagram of Derek Faker and became possessed by the imaginary gaoler.
Fielding and husband Karl Beattie, who also worked on the show, yesterday sent condolences to his family, but said nothing in tribute to Derek himself.
In 2009 his live seance with Michael Jackson was panned, and he was also forced to apologise to the McCanns after he was reported saying their daughter Madeleine was in the “spirit world”, although he said he had been misquoted.