For those of you that don’t know, Channel 5 host a show called “The Baby reader”, Paisley’s own “Psychic” Derek Ogilvie proceeds to “read” baby’s minds and tell parents what the baby is thinking, sounds marvellous doesn’t it??? EXCEPT HE IS A LYING, MANIPULATIVE, TWISTED, SOULESS FAKER!!!!

This is a clip I found from You Tube, I have planned to do post as part of my Flim-Flam series about this poor excuse for an entertainer for some time now, but after viewing this clip all of my distain for people like him cam flooding back and I have began to manically type on the keyboard. The only downside to this clip is that there is someone already ripping Deek to shreds, but I still want to add my sixpence.

Ogilvie, for my money uses a method known as cold reading, which in essence is a way of extracting information from people’s appearance, body language etc while making you think you have supernatural powers by adding a bit of showmanship.

Let’s start at the beginning Derek says to this woman;

“Now she’s at a stage she is almost scared to, instead of using a spoon, use a fork, right? You’ve noticed this haven’t you?”

Ok, so, not being a parent myself I can only assume here but when you are teaching to baby to eat by themselves you start off using a spoon. The baby grows accustom to this releasing that they can get his or her needs met (in this case to eat) using this item, so when you introduce a new eating implement and have a spoon available as well, and baring in mind that we as people are naturally resistant to change, what do you think the baby is going to pick up???? The entertainment side is added by the using of the whinny voice when he say “fork” as if to indicate that something is wrong. Interestingly enough he looks for confirmation from the mother as to whether or not his “shot in the dark” worked.

Derek then says:
“she is so scared to grow up, she doesn’t want to grow up”

Ok, I think we can safely say that a baby has no concept of getting older, all he she wants is love, care attention, feeding, toileting and rest so how he knows this one is a real noodle scratcher to me… no wait it isn’t HE’S MAKING IT UP!!!!

Ok, so Derek is convinced that the baby is scared of something (imagine that, a baby being scared of something) so its down to the cold reading to discover what that is and interestingly enough, despite the title of the program, Derek appears to be cold reading the mother!!!!

“You’ve got a problem with Lily burning herself with water, there’s a problem with hot water with you as a kid, do you remember?”

In 2002 in the UK
• Over 42,000 children under 15 were injured in burn and scald
accidents
• The majority (over 28,000) were under 5 years old
• 95 per cent of thermal injuries to children happened at home.
• Over half of all severe burns and scalds happened in the kitchen
• 32 children under 15 years died as a result of house fires.
(sourced from www.capt.org.uk)

So, the above stat shows that there is a good possibility of this happening.

Unfortunately for Derek, the mother does not agree with the “Psychic”. STRIKE 1

“Was anybody’s house broken in to?”

Ok, not sure where this woman stays but to give an idea of how common house break ins are I searched he net and pulled this one from 2002 from www.findaproperty.com

Last month the Metropolitan area notched up 5,779 home break-ins, down, admittedly, from the 6,272 recorded in August but still a lot of misery and distress for a lot of households.

So it’s another stretch which doesn’t pay off as the woman once more disagrees with Derek. STRIKE 2

“She’s telling me now about a man shouting, a man upsetting you Gemma, a man SHOUTING at you Gemma”

Judging by the woman’s facial expression, Derek has found his “connection” as the host of the show clearly points out that she is a victim of domestic abuse. So is this a psychic prediction? Well, no when you read the following statistic:

At least one out of every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime, according to a study based on 50 surveys from around the world - amnesty.org.uk

So it is sad to admit that Gemma is another victim of a despicable crime which is all too common in the world we live in. But he doesn’t stop there, oh no, he has got his hook and after already bringing up the woman’s past he wants to continue showing off his apparent power by making a further educated guess

“The man who wants to touch mums private, and bruise mum, bruise mum, BRUISE MUM”

Yes Derek makes the “educated guess” that the woman was also sexually abused, and he is right, but come on that is hardly a demonstration of “psychic powers” give the state that Gemma is now in.

“Who the fuck are these people in my house she says. She’s swearing, she’s swearing, she’s swearing at me” Derek goes on.

As the host points out, despite the fact that Lily probably at best only knows a few words, apparently she has an understanding of the swear words and how to use them in the English language. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

So let’s sum up, the baby is upset because the mother has been or is still being abused. Now I think it is safe to say that children and babies can pick up on how mothers are feeling and reacting. So Derek has in the most callous, despicable method ever, raked up the mothers tragic past, reduced her to tears, but is proud that he has “found the problem”. Wow Derek, you truly are a F*cking hero!!! Thanks to you, Gemma has had to face up to her past in front of a TV audience, with an unqualified mental health Muppet pretending to be a psychic being her only support. All you have to say to her is that she needs time to herself?!?!?! Mate after you finished with her, without proper counselling or some sort of psychiatric help, Gemma may fall into a very unhealthy mental state.

Nice one Deek, at least you got paid for that!!

BABY READER, YEAH RIGHT!!!

I can safely say that I will be publish other posts about this man until he stops his charades and finds a real job as a paper weight or something!

GI

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