Yvette Fielding

Presenter / Producer Most Haunted

Born : 23rd Sept, 1968

Yvette started her career in television at the age of just 13, starring in 'Seaview'.
She presented the children's television show, Blue Peter from 1987 to 1992. She is still to this day the youngest ever person to present Blue Peter, being just 18 when she started.
Since leaving Blue Peter in 1992, Yvette has worked on shows such as ITV's Whats up Doc?, Disney Adventures, Heaven and Earth, City Hospital, Baby Baby, Girls Talk and Karaoke Challenge.

Her credits include winning the SOS Award for most popular woman on television

However with her production company, "Antix", which she runs with her husband Karl, she produces her hugely popular show Most Haunted on LivingTV. On this show, viewers can see Yvette staying at a haunted house somewhere in Britain whilst checking for any ghostly activity that may occur.

Yvette and her husband have two children, William and Mary

Derek Acorah

Psychic Medium Most Haunted

Born: 27 January 1950

Derek Acorah's family discovered his enhanced abilities of clairaudience at the tender age of six, after Acorah relayed a message to his Grandmother from his Grandfather, a man who died five years before Acorah's birth. But Acorah's first passion as he grew older was soccer. By the age of 13, he was training with legendary Liverpool manager, Bill Shankly and was signed as a professional at 15. After he married and fathered two children, Acorah continued his professional soccer career in Australia, where he played for four years. A knee injury cut his career short and homesickness brought Acorah back to Liverpool, England.
Acorah's enhanced Psi abilities were always with him, therefore on his return to England in the early 1980s, he became a professional, full time spirit medium, based at his home city of Liverpool. Since that time, his amazingly accurate work as a professional clairvoyant in cases for both the private sector and police agencies (criminal cases), has propelled him into more public ventures. In recent years, Acorah achieved international success with his television, radio and personal appearances across Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. By invitation in October 1997, Acorah participated in a Middle East tour that took him to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the desert location of Al Ain. His time is sought after by celebrities on different continents. He has undertaken phone consultations for those in need as far away from Liverpool as India, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Acorah became a member of the ISPR in December 1998.
Acorah's groundbreaking work on the two television series, Predictions with Derek Acorah and Psychic Livetime, won him the British equivalent of the American Daytime Emmy Award. His first book The Psychic World of Derek Acorah, entered its 4th printing within 3 months of its initial September 1999 release. In March 1999, Acorah participated in the ISPR field investigations featured in the two award winning documentaries, ISPR Investigates Ghosts of England (Telly Award - 1999) and ISPR Investigates Ghosts of Belgrave Hall (Best Horror Documentary Award - 2002 Screamfest L.A. Film Festival / Hollywood). Both documentaries are distributed around the world in several languages and are utilized as a teaching tool in universities like UCLA and USC.
During the filming of ISPR Investigates Ghosts of England, the entire ISPR team was moved at the plight of Mr. Nicholas Geary, a recently bereaved Liverpool man. The team was even more moved when teammate Acorah decided to conduct a live stage performance with all proceeds going to Mr. Geary. The May 9, 1999 event was a resounding success.
In July 2001, Acorah shot the pilot of Most Haunted (LivingTV) - and now stars on this number one smash European hit.
Acorah resides with his wife Gwen, a German Shepherd and four cats.

Derek's last appearance on Most Haunted was the Live production from East London for Halloween 2005. He started his new series Ghost Towns in November 2005 on Living TV.

Read Interview from June 2004

Phil Whyman

Paranormal Investigator

Born: 13 January 1971

Phil Whyman is the former paranormal expert / presenter of Living TV’s much acclaimed flagship television series, ‘Most Haunted’.

His knowledge and views on all things paranormal have been called upon on numerous occasions for radio, television and newspaper articles and his fresh and rational approach to the subject has seen Phil become a respected figure in this genre.

In July 2002 he was chosen as one of the main on-screen cast members from 1500 applicants to investigate reports of occultism, ghosts and hauntings for Living TV’s successful 10 episode series ‘Scream Team’. Phil’s appearance on the show brought him to the attention of Antix Productions, the production team behind Living TV’s phenomenally successful ghost investigation show ‘Most Haunted’.

Here Phil Whyman became the resident paranormal expert / presenter working alongside Yvette Fielding and Derek Acorah for 3 series (30 episodes). He also adopted the same role for 7 ‘Most Haunted-LIVE’ events, each of which amassed viewing figures averaging almost 1 million.

Phil is also a keen musician and used to play keyboards in a band called PESKY. He has his own CD, 'Within the Matrix', which is for sale via his website.

Phil is now working freelance while running Dead Haunted Nights

Richard Felix

Historian

Richard was born in Derby and educated at Stanley College. He spent nine years in the Territorial Army, commissioned into the third battalion of the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters. In 1965 he joined the family business selling pop records in the local market, until in 1988 after a trip to York, Richard decided to sell Derby instead. After six months he was the chairman of Derby and Derbyshire Tourism Association, where he remained for three years.
For the past twelve years Derby based local historian Richard Felix has been proprietor of the Derby Heritage Centre. His investigations into Derby’s local history, lead him to discover a multitude of haunted houses and ghostly apparitions haunting Derby, from child caring spectres to screaming Viking skulls. As such he has proclaimed Derby to be the ‘Dead Centre’ of Britain, and created a now world-renowned ghost tour of the city. This tour has attracted thousands of visitors to the city, and has scared its fair share of locals, the highlight of the tour being in the old Derby Gaol recently purchased by Felix.
Having realised the vast interest the public has in ghostly goings on; Felix began to look further a field, to the ghosts of other counties and cities. Seeing that Derby was not on it’s own in terms of hauntings, he has established the Nationwide Ghost Hunting Tour of Britain.
This has resulted in a series of videos in conjunction with Past in Pictures, which are exclusive to each area. From the North East to the South West, Felix is travelling the country filming his own experiences at haunted sites and interviewing those local to the areas that have witnessed ghostly occurrences.
On several occasions these films have been featured on both cable tv and the BBC, and are currently a part of a ‘Most Haunted’ series on Sky. The Ghost Hunting Tour is still going with many areas still not covered, and Felix is constantly looking for your help with his research, either by mailing him photos or stories, which hint toward the supernatural, which he can investigate for use in further videos.

Richard left Most Haunted at the end of series 8. He held a web chat and left this message

"Apologies for the web chat crashing this evening, we've never had such a response, I should get sacked every week! Just so you all know its official, last week I was told that Living TV no longer require a historian on Most Haunted. Can I just thank everyone for their kind words of support that I have received over the last few days, I am absolutely overwhelmed. I would also like to thank Karl and Yvette for giving me the exposure which has resulted in all of you out there. I would also like to congratulate them on creating the best ghost programme in the world, to date! See you all very soon, don't go away cus I'll be back! xxx"

Karl Beattie

Director Of Photography

Born: 20th May, 1963

Karl Beattie started his career in television on the set of BBC's live children's show 'Parallel 9' as a camera assistant. He was quickly snapped up by an outside broadcast company, Visions, and trained there as a cameraman.

Karl has worked on some of the top television shows in Britain: 'Gladiators', 'Blind Date', 'TFI Friday', 'Robot Wars', Disney, Jim Henson and the World Music Awards to name but a few. His music credits speak for themselves: Madonna's Frozen Video, Motown Mania, Sting, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Whitney Houston, Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson to name but a few - and he's no stranger to festivals either, working at Glastonbury, Reading, Phoenix and Brighton.

On a mission to experience the variety of television camera, he had gone as far as Bosnia and with a background in outside broadcast, he has amounted 1000s of hours of live broadcast in all television genre from sport to music, current affairs to light entertainment.

It was while working on a live show, BBC's 'City Hospital', that Karl met Yvette Fielding. They were engaged within 6 weeks and married within 6 months. Both Karl and Yvette had wanted to start a production company to put their ideas into practice and so Antix Productions was born - and their first idea was 'Most Haunted'.

Karl's expertise does not only lie in television. He started Martial Arts training under the legendary Otsu Maeda Sensei at the age of 7 and is the current World Traditional Full Contact Martial Arts Champion. He won the title in 1994 and holds it to this day after knocking out the then undefeated champion Tiju Fukura. Karl has never been beaten and holds an impressive record of 85 official fights, 85 wins and 75 KO's. He is the only person to take the title out of Japan and for his efforts has been awarded a Samuraiship, one of only eight honoured outside of Japan.

He holds a 4th Dan in Ryukyu Kempo and Wado Ryu Karate, is a master swordsman and has trained extensively in Goju Ryu, Iaido, Aikido, Jujitsu, Wing Chun and Silum Kung Fu

Jason Dexter Karl

Presenter

Jason starred in the first series of Most Haunted as the resident presenter, in this series it was a regular event to start the investigation with Jason going over what methods and equipment he would be using in the programme.
Jason started his television career at the age of 14 in Anglia’s Knightmare along with other smaller roles on theatre and TV. From here he took time out to attend North Oxfordshire School of Arts where he studied media, photography, television and film.
He returned to the public eye working in various shows for the Tussaud’s group starring in numerous shows at Alton Towers and Chessington World Of Adventures, as well a numerous theatre roles throughout the UK.
Since Most Haunted Jason staying in the paranormal world presenting numerous programmes including Haunted Halloween Live, Jason Karl’s High Spirits and Phenomena, as well a starring in other television programmes in Europe and America. Most recently Jason has reached the public via his regular articles in Prediction magazine and a numerous of books including Jason Karl’s Great Ghost Hunt.
Presently Jason acts as Creative Director for his production company Pure TV, while relaunching Jason Karl's Ghost Research Foundation, organising vigils for the public to haunted locations in the UK.

Jason is now presenting live TV on various cable channels including QVC and is set to begin filming a series for Belgian TV next year, he has also just signed 3 new book deals!
Jason’s website is full of up-to-date information on his latest project and achievements and well worth a look.

Many Thanks to Jason for keeping us up-to-date with his latest activities.

Ciarán O'Keeffe

Parapsychologist

Ciarán’s diverse background begins in the US, where, in 1994, he graduated with a Liberal Arts degree at Washington College, majoring in Music & Psychology. There he completed an honors thesis on paranormal experiences in conjunction with a representative from the Institute of Parapsychology (now Rhine Research Center).

Following several years of nursing experience, an occasional foray into spontaneous cases, and a brief stint in Spain, he returned to academia, in 1997, with an MSc. Investigative Psychology at Liverpool University. Whilst there, independent research encompassed the geo-spatial behaviour of serial killers, hypnotism and the legal system, mental maps of computer criminals, and various aspects of the psychology of fraud: self-perception and social identity; risk-taking and decision making; situational factors and probability bias. The Master’s dissertation examined the utility of psychic detectives and the style of their narratives.

In the past few years Ciarán has been researching a Doctorate entitled ‘Assessing the content of advice given by practitioners claiming paranormal ability,’ (focusing on psychics and mediums) at the University of Hertfordshire. The PhD is supervised by Professor Richard Wiseman and Professor Julia Buckroyd.

Professor Wiseman, primary supervisor, has provided advice on the assessment of claimants; Professor Buckroyd has offered input on how such interactions relate to the dyadic interaction of counselling scenarios.

During his time at University of Hertfordshire, Ciarán was fortunate enough to be involved in several Perrott-Warrick Research Unit projects (e.g. ‘ghost’ projects at Hampton Court and Edinburgh), also taking time off for other spontaneous cases and unusual assignments (including a dream project, and exorcism research), and returning to the Rhine Research Center for their Summer Study Program in 2000.

Currently, he is employed as a psychology lecturer at Liverpool Hope University College, assisting with both criminal psychology and parapsychology teaching. In addition Ciarán can be seen appearing on paranormal TV shows such as Living TV’s Most Haunted and Jane Goldman Investigates where he regularly battles with all manner of mediumistic communication.

David Wells

Psychic Medium

Website

David was born in a village north of the Border’ stuff and was brought up in a small Scottish village, where his mother worked in a knitwear factory and my father was a coal miner.

Hejoined the Royal Navy aged 16, left when hr was 24 and began a career in catering within hotels and leisure clubs.
In 1991 he decided to go back to college as a mature student to study leisure as a career, funded by working 40 hours a week as a chef and a waiter in a small hostel in the south of England.

Whilst on a Christmas Holiday in Scotland in 1992 he found hisself in hospital, unconscious suffering from pneumonia. On the second night in hospital he found myself in the corridor being told to go back to bed by an old lady – he did as she asked only to find he was already there! Thinking nothing more than he had been dreaming he forgot the incident and was released a few days later when improvements to his health were great enough.

He returned to England and was convalescing when he started to experience odd happenings in my home, so odd that he found it impossible to sleep. A friend suggested that he visited a woman who ‘knew about these things’ and he duly did.

This remarkable woman was to be his teacher, mentor and friend through an extraordinary journey that was to unfold over the next ten years.
David has become a regular to Most Haunted

Gordon Smith

Psychic Medium 

Website

Gordon Smith is an astoundingly accurate medium, renowned for his ability to give exact names of people, places and even streets during readings. His outstanding abilities as a medium or messenger from the spirit world have brought comfort and healing to thousands of people
worldwide. Even as one of the UK’s most prestigious mediums he still works as a hairstylist at his salon in Glasgow where he keeps his feet firmly on the ground, giving him his famous nickname The Psychic Barber.
The groundbreaking Everyman documentary Mediums: Talking To The Dead which aired in September2004, left critics speechless and provided unparalleled insight and groundbreaking objective reportage ofGordon’s abilities as a Medium. Following Gordon around the world, the programme documented hisastonishing debut appearance in the trans-atlantic psychic circles of San Fransisco and witnessed the heart-warming and unexplainably accurate personal messages he gave to grieving parents in London
during one of the free one-to-one readings for which he has become so highly sought.
Even amidst the scepticism that surrounds mediumship, Gordon has dispelled any doubters with his unrivalled ability to deliver proof of life beyond death. He acknowledges how imagination, grief and distress can affect people’s perceptions and how charlatans and frauds have added to the confusion.
Working with Professor Archie Roy, Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at Glasgow University and Tricia Robertson of the Scottish Society for Psychical Research, Gordon has significantly contributed to the development of a scientific approach to studying the evidence given by mediums to their recipients.
'I have allowed my mediumship to be subject to experiments in the hope that knowledge will grow from them. I have assisted the true seekers in tests, blind tests and double blind tests. It matters not to me whether people believe that what I do is genuine. All I can say is that I try my best.'
Over the years his experiences and research have led him to know the reality of the unseen world and have
inspired him with the passion to reveal the unbelievable truth.

Gordon joined the team as psychic medium for Series 7

Dr. Matthew Smith

Parapsychologist

Matthew Smith is a British parapsychologist, who in 2005 teaches at Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England. He is a Council Member of the Society for Psychical Research and is best known to the public for his work on LivingTV's popular ghosthunting programme Most Haunted. His previous research includes work on the psychology of luck and the psychology of deception, both with Richard Wiseman, and as of Summer 2005 he is involved in ganzfeld ESP research in the field of parapsychology.

Whilst his views remain logical and reflects an opinion that seems the most plausable in an investigation, not 'everyone' in the crew will agree.....and even the audience used too 'disagree' with Mr Smith's opinions in the early Most Haunted Live shows......but opinions change. I personally find Dr Smith the most genuine 'crew member' of the whole team - even if I disagree with his comments!

Dr David Bull

Anchorman on Most Haunted Live

Born :: 9th May, 1969

Dr David Bull is a qualified medical practitioner who worked as a full time doctor in Britain’s National Health Service for three years before turning to his first love – broadcasting – and is today a television presenter and co-founder of IncrediBull Ideas, a fast growing creative communications agency in London.
He was born in Kent and moved to London when he was 18. He completed his medical education in 1993 at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, University of London with first class degrees, and then started to work in the NHS.
His first job in television was the on the Sky Travel channel giving medical advice to people travelling abroad, but the big break was giving health advice to children on John Craven’s Newsround. He won a Royal Television Society award for best children’s factual programme in the first year and made the first ever documentary for children about kids infected or affected by HIV.
The next big break for him was when he was approached by Anne Robinson to work on Watchdog.From there he hosted Watchdog Healthcheck, the BBC’s only prime-time health show and Tomorrow’s World Live.
We know him best as the anchor on Living TV's Most Haunted Live, his last appearance was for Most Haunted Live Halloween 2005.

Ian John Shillito

Psychic Medium 

Ian John Shillito, aged 38, now lives in central London but was orginally from Braintree in Essex. He studied art for four years and was a goth in the 80's!!!! He worked as a stage manager in west end of London for 17 years.
For the last two years he has been working as a psychic medium. He had many psychic encounters as a child although didnt he really pay too much attention to them.
His sister Tina is a medium and other sister Justine is big sceptic - so it leads to some very interesting dinner table converstions.
His nana- read tea leaves and so did her mum.. Ian has just completed a book about the haunted theatres of the west end with co-author and medium Becky Walsh and is currently compling a new book about residual energy.
He also runs the UK's first ever gay psychic circle

He is the first psychic to be buried alive on national television in an experiment to discover whether a psychic can pick up on residual energy deep within the earth. During Living TV's Most Haunted Live investigation of Portsmouth, Ian and director/producer Karl Beattie were buried in a coffin under 3 tonnes of soil in the haunted moat of Southsea Castle for 2 hours.

Our thanks goes to Ian for providing Tribute To Most Haunted with this biography and we wish him every success above and below ground!

Ian Lawman

Psychic Medium

Ian Lawman hails from a normal, working class family, but broke from following a traditional career path at the tender age of 16, when he become a top Dancer and Fashion model. His modeling won him the accolade of being the Face of 97. Later, after many years of fighting his natural abilities, Ian succumbed to his role as a gifted psychic. He is now a well-known figure in the world of the unknown and paranormal.

Ian’s work in 2004 went much more public with his appearances on I’m Famous and Frightened 1, 3 and 4 in which Ian was screened holding the world's ever live Séance and the worlds first live Ouija board session. Ian has also worked on Most Haunted in series 3, 4 and 5 and has many other well know TV shows under his belt. Ian now also writes for top Magazine It’s Fate, in which he’s there resident Ghost Doctor columnist, and now a columnist for Prediction Magazine which have even gained him fans in traditionally sceptic circles.

The Exorcist

Ian Lawman is well known as one of the worlds leading Exorcists. After Being asked to work on shows such as Most Haunted, Ian successfully helped trapped Spirits move into the light, and in some cases he was required to do a full Exorcism, and as this was televised, this became the first ever Exorcism shown on UK TV.

Ian’s approach is very different from others, giving him that leading edge, and after being taught by the Church for over three years, this also gives him the rights over others. Ian has worked very closely with many Churches, and is still called upon as a last resort, to respectfully help move trapped souls on, giving them the love and light required.

Despite many requests to be Patron of other websites, the only one that Ian has thus far endorsed with patronage is www.walkwithspirit.co.uk

Ian's fan's run Ians Official fan site: ‘thepsychicbadboy.org'

The official Fan site is dedicated to Ian Lawman and his work as truly gifted and talented psychic medium. Despite his fame Ian has always made time for his fans, and when he’s not rubbing shoulders with ‘A’ list celebrities, Ian is a regular visitor to the forum. Celebrities and the public cannot help but warm to Ian’s down to earth approach, and he continues to amaze people with the consistency of his frighteningly accurate readings.

Information taken from Ian's site with his permission

Paul Ross

Anchor On Most Haunted Live

Paul John Ross (born "John Ross", December 31, 1956 in Leytonstone, London) is an English journalist, television editor, and media personality. He is the brother of presenter Jonathan Ross. He is also an up and coming film reviewer.

Ross was trained as a journalist, and worked as an editor on Channel 4's controversial youth show The Word, having originally cut his teeth as a researcher at London Weekend Television. He worked as an 'on-your-doorstep' outside broadcaster, and also as co-host in The Big Breakfast. In the mid 1990s, he also worked as a game show host on Telly Stacks and the British version of the popular American game show Jeopardy.

From 1997 to 1998 he hosted The Paul Ross Show, a late-night programme on ITV. He also made appearances on programs such as Bo' Selecta and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Ross was one of the launch presenters at the then-innovative satellite shopping broadcaster Bid-up.tv, and fronted the BBC1 lunchtime quizshow No Win No Fee, where contestants would directly compete with Paul for his four-thousand pound fee for the show. He took part in the third series of popular ITV1 reality show, Celebrity Fit Club, losing 2 stone and a pound, and was made team captain. Ross was the first contestant to be eliminated on Comic Relief Does Fame Academy (2003) after his singing failed to impress voters.

His film roles have included "Mr Sit-up Britain" in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and Colonel Mattel in Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989).

In 2005 he presents a Saturday morning show for London's LBC 97.3 radio station, as well as being a show-business reporter for the television programme, This Morning. He also writes a weekly column, Paul Ross at the Movies, for a leading Sunday tabloid newspaper, which has been widely criticized for "quote whoring". He also introduced movies on the short lived Sky movie channels Matinee and Bad Movies

In 2005 Paul was also one of the the main presenters for ChoicesUK TV on Sky TV a film review/shopping channel also hosted by Rustie Lee

Paul Ross has also appeared on a celebrity edition of "Mastermind" where his specialist subject was "The Life and Works of Ezra Pound". He is now since the Most Haunted Live in Portsmouth 2006, the host of Most Haunted Live.

Julian Clegg

MH Live Access All Areas

His first break was with BBC Local Radio in Sussex. But he moved back to his roots to join BBC Radio Solent and set up house a few miles from his boyhood home near New Milton.

Jon Dibley

Dir. Of Photography

Jon Dibley quickly become a favourite among Most Haunted fans not just for his skilful camera and lighting work on the show, but his quick witted, level headed approach to the paranormal.

One of Jon’s first appearances on Most Haunted was the filming at the Station Hotel where he was credited as Director of Photography (D.o.P.)