Stephen promises lots of tears and laughter in emotional show

Source: Whitehaven Times, Published on 14/06/2007

STEPHEN Holbrook was reaching for a pizza in his local supermarket when he accidentally tapped a woman on the hand and then heard voices.

He thought that there was something wrong with him and went to the doctors.

That was when he was just 16 years old. Now, aged 40, he is said to be one of Britain’s top clairvoyants and is bringing his show to Whitehaven this month.

He is best friends with stage and TV star Jane McDonald, who he predicted would go on to fame and fortune on the night he saw her singing in a working men’s club.

Stephen had his first experience with the spirit world when he was nine years old.

“My granddad came into my bedroom tapped me and said ‘Ive gone’,” said Stephen, pictured. This was in the early hours of the morning and Stephen’s mum thought he must have been dreaming.

However, Stephen’s granddad had died during the night, five minutes after the experience had occurred.

“My mum thought it was a bit strange and said promise me that you will never tell anyone about it,” said Stephen.

He then experienced nothing else until the supermarket incident some years later. He says after tapping the woman accidentally, he heard a message for her from her dead son. “I thought there was something wrong with me so I went to the doctors and said I’m hearing voices.”

After a couple of visits to the doctors he was told he had a very special gift and that he should go to a spiritualist church.

And it was at the spiritualist church where he met Jane McDonald. Watching her sing on stage, he saw an American flag behind her and told her that she would be going onto a cruise ship to sing and become famous.

The rest, as they say, is history. Anyone who watched television series The Cruise, will remember Jane being the star and it became her springboard to go on to bigger and better things.

“Jane dedicated her book to me and we have stayed best friends and text each other every other day,” he said.

Now discussions are in the early stages for a television programme starring Stephen and Jane.

So what can Whitehaven’s audience expect from An Evening of Clairvoyance with Stephen Holbrook?

“It will be an emotional rollercoaster of an evening,” said Stephen.

“I aim to produce evidence by proving the survival of the spirit after bodily death. I will be acting as a telephone exchange, passing messages from people in the spirit world to people in the audience.”

Stephen has been touring for the last 21 years with his two hour show.

He invites any sceptics to go along and see the show and says 99 per cent of them will “leave uncomfortably challenged”.

The audience, he says, can usually be divided into three categories – A: the ‘give me a message if you dare’ men who sit with their arms folded; B: the ‘if he talks to me I’ll die’ people and C: ‘come on, please give me a message’.

He promises a lot of laughter and possibly a lot of tears of joy.