Colin Fry (19 May 1962 – 25 August 2015) was a British spiritualist medium and television personality. He was one of the best known mediums in Britain bringing comfort and entertainment to many.
Biography
Colin Fry was born on 19 May 1962 in
Haywards Heath, Sussex. He claimed to have discovered psychic ability from the age of four when he told his grandfather that his mother had “died and gone to heaven”. The next day his grandfather received a telegram that said his mother had passed away.
Fry hosted a number of television programmes dealing with the supernatural, including: ''Most Haunted,'' ''Psychic Private Eyes'' and ''
6ixth Sense with Colin Fry'', produced by
Living TV
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. Fry, who at one time performed under the stage name of "Lincoln", was exposed in 1992 when during a séance the lights were unexpectedly turned on and he was seen holding a
spirit trumpet in the air, which the audience had been led to believe was being levitated by spiritual energy.
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The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 February 2016. "Sceptics countered that Fry's main talent lay in basic “cold reading” techniques – the art of analysing body language in order to make high-probability guesses about a person. In 1992 Fry was caught out at a seance when the lights were turned on unexpectedly, revealing that he was still holding a “spirit trumpet” that was meant to be suspended in mid-air."
In April 2015, Fry was diagnosed with terminal
lung cancer
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.
He died in
Sussex
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on 25 August 2015, at the age of 53.
References
External links
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Colin Fry Interviewin
The Independent
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by
Marcus Williamson
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Campaigns
Phorm
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1962 births
2015 deaths
English psychics
English spiritual mediums
English television personalities
Gay entertainers
English LGBT people
21st-century LGBT people