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Colin Fry (19 May 1962 – 25 August 2015) was an English
television personality Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group due to the attention given to them by mass media. The word is also used to refer to famous individuals. A person may attain celebrity status by having great w ...
, entertainer and self-proclaimed
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. He consistently professed his beliefs as a psychic and garnered a following across his career, whilst critics said his capabilities came from cold reading. Examination of Fry's cold-reading techniques during a live performance."Colin Fry, medium - obituary"
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 séance 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."


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 died. Fry hosted a number of television programmes dealing with the supernatural, including: ''Most Haunted,'' ''Psychic Private Eyes'' and ''
6ixth Sense with Colin Fry ''6ixth Sense'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British television series aired on Living (channel), Living TV. Hosted by Spiritualism (beliefs), spiritualist Mediumship, medium Colin Fry, it features him giving Psychic readings to a stud ...
'', produced by
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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. In April 2015, Fry was diagnosed with terminal
lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung. Lung cancer is caused by genetic damage to the DNA of cells in the airways, often caused by cigarette smoking or inhaling damaging chemicals. Damaged ...
. He died in
Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...
on 25 August 2015, at the age of 53.


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Colin Fry Interview


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