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== Early life and career == | == Early life and career == | ||
Stockwell was born in Walthamstow, East London.<ref name="wiki-stockwell" /> His career as a medium began at age 16, after a friend invited him to a local Spiritualist church to watch another medium at work; the experience convinced him he wanted to become a medium himself.<ref name="wiki-stockwell" /> He practised mediumship early in his career at the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain, and later held a certificate from the Spiritualist National Union for Teaching, Demonstrating and Speaking.<ref name="wiki-stockwell" /><ref name="collegeofpsychic">{{cite web |title=Tony Stockwell — Psychic Medium |url=https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/about-us/our-consultants/tony-stockwell/ |website=College of Psychic Studies}}</ref> He teaches at the College of Psychic Studies in South Kensington, London.<ref name="hachette">{{cite web |title=Tony Stockwell |url=https://www.hachette.co.uk/contributor/tony-stockwell/ |website=Hachette UK}}</ref> | Stockwell was born in Walthamstow, East London.<ref name="wiki-stockwell" /> His career as a medium began at age 16, after a friend invited him to a local [[Spiritualist church]] to watch another medium at work; the experience convinced him he wanted to become a medium himself.<ref name="wiki-stockwell" /> He practised mediumship early in his career at the [[Spiritualist Association of Great Britain]], and later held a certificate from the [[Spiritualist National Union]] for Teaching, Demonstrating and Speaking.<ref name="wiki-stockwell" /><ref name="collegeofpsychic">{{cite web |title=Tony Stockwell — Psychic Medium |url=https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/about-us/our-consultants/tony-stockwell/ |website=College of Psychic Studies}}</ref> He teaches at the [[College of Psychic Studies]] in South Kensington, London.<ref name="hachette">{{cite web |title=Tony Stockwell |url=https://www.hachette.co.uk/contributor/tony-stockwell/ |website=Hachette UK}}</ref> | ||
== Television career == | == Television career == | ||
Stockwell has fronted three of his own television series for Living TV: ''The Psychic Detective'', ''Street Psychic'' and ''Psychic School'', along with two one-off specials, ''Street Psychic San Francisco'' and ''The National ESP Challenge''.<ref name="wiki-stockwell" /> He also appeared in a 1995 ITV series, ''Psychic Private Eyes'', alongside fellow medium [[Colin Fry]], and later guested on Fry's own show ''6ixth Sense''.<ref name="colinfry-article">{{cite web |title=Colin Fry's Butlin's Wire Scandal |url=https://dyerbolical.com/colin-fry-the-celebrated-british-medium-and-his-enduring-link-to-the-spiritualist-tradition/ |website=Dyerbolical}}</ref> Stockwell has separately appeared alongside [[Derek Acorah]] and Colin Fry as one of "The Three Mediums", and made a guest appearance on ''Most Haunted Live 4''.<ref name="southendtheatre">{{cite web |title=Tony Stockwell |url=http://www.southendtheatrescene.com/tonystockwell.html |website=Southend Theatre Scene}}</ref> In 2009 he toured the UK jointly with American medium James Van Praagh.<ref name="wiki-stockwell" /> | Stockwell has fronted three of his own television series for Living TV: ''[[The Psychic Detective]]'', ''[[Street Psychic]]'' and ''[[Psychic School]]'', along with two one-off specials, ''Street Psychic San Francisco'' and ''The National ESP Challenge''.<ref name="wiki-stockwell" /> He also appeared in a 1995 ITV series, ''Psychic Private Eyes'', alongside fellow medium [[Colin Fry]], and later guested on Fry's own show ''[[6ixth Sense]]''.<ref name="colinfry-article">{{cite web |title=Colin Fry's Butlin's Wire Scandal |url=https://dyerbolical.com/colin-fry-the-celebrated-british-medium-and-his-enduring-link-to-the-spiritualist-tradition/ |website=Dyerbolical}}</ref> Stockwell has separately appeared alongside [[Derek Acorah]] and Colin Fry as one of "[[The Three Mediums]]", and made a guest appearance on ''[[Most Haunted]] Live 4''.<ref name="southendtheatre">{{cite web |title=Tony Stockwell |url=http://www.southendtheatrescene.com/tonystockwell.html |website=Southend Theatre Scene}}</ref> In 2009 he toured the UK jointly with American medium [[James Van Praagh]].<ref name="wiki-stockwell" /> | ||
== Books and other work == | == Books and other work == | ||
Stockwell has written several books about his experiences as a medium, including his autobiography ''Spirited'', ''The Psychic Case Files'' and ''Walking with Angels'', alongside a number of instructional audio programmes on mediumship development.<ref name="peoplepill">{{cite web |title=Who is Tony Stockwell? |url=https://peoplepill.com/i/tony-stockwell |website=PeoplePill}}</ref> He runs his own training courses for aspiring mediums, teaching regularly both in the UK and at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.<ref name="tonystockwell-about">{{cite web |title=About Tony |url=https://tonystockwell.com/about/ |website=tonystockwell.com}}</ref> | Stockwell has written several books about his experiences as a medium, including his autobiography ''[[Spirited (book)|Spirited]]'', ''The Psychic Case Files'' and ''Walking with Angels'', alongside a number of instructional audio programmes on mediumship development.<ref name="peoplepill">{{cite web |title=Who is Tony Stockwell? |url=https://peoplepill.com/i/tony-stockwell |website=PeoplePill}}</ref> He runs his own training courses for aspiring mediums, teaching regularly both in the UK and at the [[Omega Institute]] in Rhinebeck, New York.<ref name="tonystockwell-about">{{cite web |title=About Tony |url=https://tonystockwell.com/about/ |website=tonystockwell.com}}</ref> | ||
== Reception == | == Reception == | ||
Reviewing a live Stockwell demonstration in 2023, ''The Skeptic'' magazine noted the venue's disclaimer that the event was billed "for entertainment purposes" — a framing generally understood to reference the UK's Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951, which prohibited obtaining payment through claimed psychic ability except where clearly presented as entertainment.<ref name="skeptic-stockwell">{{cite web |title=Tony Stockwell on tour — the dying embers of the celebrity psychic era? |url=https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/08/tony-stockwell-on-tour-the-dying-embers-of-the-celebrity-psychic-era/ |website=The Skeptic}}</ref> The reviewer described what they characterised as competent cold reading technique, combined with what they suggested might be some pre-established knowledge of attendees, and observed that audience members' apparent threshold for accepting a reading as genuine evidence of an afterlife often appeared to require little more than a correctly guessed gender followed by general, broadly-applicable statements.<ref name="skeptic-stockwell" /> | Reviewing a live Stockwell demonstration in 2023, ''[[The Skeptic]]'' magazine noted the venue's disclaimer that the event was billed "for entertainment purposes" — a framing generally understood to reference the UK's [[Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951]], which prohibited obtaining payment through claimed psychic ability except where clearly presented as entertainment.<ref name="skeptic-stockwell">{{cite web |title=Tony Stockwell on tour — the dying embers of the celebrity psychic era? |url=https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/08/tony-stockwell-on-tour-the-dying-embers-of-the-celebrity-psychic-era/ |website=The Skeptic}}</ref> The reviewer described what they characterised as competent [[cold reading]] technique, combined with what they suggested might be some pre-established knowledge of attendees, and observed that audience members' apparent threshold for accepting a reading as genuine evidence of an afterlife often appeared to require little more than a correctly guessed gender followed by general, broadly-applicable statements.<ref name="skeptic-stockwell" /> | ||
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* [https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/08/tony-stockwell-on-tour-the-dying-embers-of-the-celebrity-psychic-era/ The Skeptic — Tony Stockwell on tour] | * [https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/08/tony-stockwell-on-tour-the-dying-embers-of-the-celebrity-psychic-era/ The Skeptic — Tony Stockwell on tour] | ||
* [https://tonystockwell.com Tony Stockwell — official site] | * [https://tonystockwell.com Tony Stockwell — official site] | ||
* [https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/about-us/our-consultants/tony-stockwell/ College of Psychic Studies — Tony Stockwell] | |||
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1648438/ Tony Stockwell on IMDb] | |||
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Revision as of 23:08, 1 August 2026
Tony Stockwell is a British psychic medium, author and television personality, one of the best-known touring mediums in the UK.[1] He currently lives in Wickford, Essex.[1]
Early life and career
Stockwell was born in Walthamstow, East London.[1] His career as a medium began at age 16, after a friend invited him to a local Spiritualist church to watch another medium at work; the experience convinced him he wanted to become a medium himself.[1] He practised mediumship early in his career at the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain, and later held a certificate from the Spiritualist National Union for Teaching, Demonstrating and Speaking.[1][2] He teaches at the College of Psychic Studies in South Kensington, London.[3]
Television career
Stockwell has fronted three of his own television series for Living TV: The Psychic Detective, Street Psychic and Psychic School, along with two one-off specials, Street Psychic San Francisco and The National ESP Challenge.[1] He also appeared in a 1995 ITV series, Psychic Private Eyes, alongside fellow medium Colin Fry, and later guested on Fry's own show 6ixth Sense.[4] Stockwell has separately appeared alongside Derek Acorah and Colin Fry as one of "The Three Mediums", and made a guest appearance on Most Haunted Live 4.[5] In 2009 he toured the UK jointly with American medium James Van Praagh.[1]
Books and other work
Stockwell has written several books about his experiences as a medium, including his autobiography Spirited, The Psychic Case Files and Walking with Angels, alongside a number of instructional audio programmes on mediumship development.[6] He runs his own training courses for aspiring mediums, teaching regularly both in the UK and at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.[7]
Reception
Reviewing a live Stockwell demonstration in 2023, The Skeptic magazine noted the venue's disclaimer that the event was billed "for entertainment purposes" — a framing generally understood to reference the UK's Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951, which prohibited obtaining payment through claimed psychic ability except where clearly presented as entertainment.[8] The reviewer described what they characterised as competent cold reading technique, combined with what they suggested might be some pre-established knowledge of attendees, and observed that audience members' apparent threshold for accepting a reading as genuine evidence of an afterlife often appeared to require little more than a correctly guessed gender followed by general, broadly-applicable statements.[8]
VAULT PROFILE ASSESSMENT
CATEGORY
Psychic Medium / TV Personality
VAULT RELEVANCE
Moderate
CONNECTION
Televised and touring mediumship, and the wider British "celebrity medium" television genre of the 2000s
ASSESSMENT
Tony Stockwell represents a long-running, still-active strand of British televised mediumship distinct from the more overtly investigative framing of shows like Most Haunted — his work centres on direct audience readings rather than location-based paranormal investigation. Contemporary sceptical coverage of his live shows applies the same broad critique (cold reading, audience-narrowed statements) levelled at most touring mediums, though he has attracted comparatively less sustained controversy than contemporaries such as Derek Acorah.
See also
- Colin Fry
- Derek Acorah
- James Van Praagh
- Most Haunted
- Mediumship
- Cold reading
- Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951
- Spiritualist Association of Great Britain
- College of Psychic Studies
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Tony Stockwell."Wikipedia.
- ↑ "Tony Stockwell — Psychic Medium."College of Psychic Studies.
- ↑ "Tony Stockwell."Hachette UK.
- ↑ "Colin Fry's Butlin's Wire Scandal."Dyerbolical.
- ↑ "Tony Stockwell."Southend Theatre Scene.
- ↑ "Who is Tony Stockwell?."PeoplePill.
- ↑ "About Tony."tonystockwell.com.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Tony Stockwell on tour — the dying embers of the celebrity psychic era?."The Skeptic.