I went along to an evening with Sally Morgan last night in Birmingham. I have never seen her show on TV but have heard many positive things about her from my friend. I have always maintained an open mind about 'life after death', and I do believe in God. However, I do not necessarily believe that dead people walk the earth etc. I went with an open mind and what I saw was, in my opinion, a poor attempt by a dressed up old women (with an extremely patronising voice) to guess names from the top of her head until someone put their hand up to say 'yes, the had a family member or friend of that name that was dead etc.'. The whole thing was an absolute joke although I found it quite entertaining. Most of the audience was made up by the type of people you would see on Jeremy Kyle. Towards the end of the show as I continued to watch Morgan get a couple of things right here and there I started feeling guilty for finding it so entertaining. It became obvious to me that most of the people there actually believed this women and were hanging on to every wrong word she was saying. It was almost like they wanted her to find words that could connect them with their lost loves one in order to confirm that the dead were definitely on stage in spirit form. In my opinion, someone who exploits vunerable people in this way is evil and should be strung up - giving people false hope must surely be the lowest of the low (and making a fortune from it). One of my friends raised the point that you could look at this in two ways a) that she is evil by messing with their lives and cons people out of money and b) that she is at least giving vunerable people that have lost someone a chance to feel they can connect with that loved one again and therefore what she is doing could seem as not so bad. Is false hope better than no hope at all? She even had children that had died on stage with her and it was at this point that I wanted to jump from my chair and knock her out. What is you're opinion (for those who think she isn't a fake, I would love to hear from you too). Evil or not? I couldn't believe how she could feel around with the names i.e. "I'm getting the name....... Sam, Samual, Sammy, could be Sara, Sandy etc etc.". It was a bit like watching Clinton Baptiste from Phoenix Nights. "Is there a John in the audience?" Your views please YA people.
March 11th 2010 Posted to
QanA