He's the world's most famous psychic medium, a man who claims he has the ability to speak to the dead and if his fans are anything to go by John Edward is the real deal...
John Edward was born in Long Island, New York in 1969. From the time he was very young he experienced strange phenomena that he assumed was normal. He would know things about relatives he had never met and who died years before he was born; sometimes he would imagine himself leave his body and hover outside the window looking in. His large family - and primarily his mother - were very accepting of this "gift" and as such he grew up just like any other child.
When he was 15 his mother invited a psychic Lydia Clar to their home for a session with many of his family members. This was not unusual as John's mother often had psychic readings. What WAS unusual about this occasion was that John - a very sceptical person - was eventually persuaded to have a reading done of his own. His intention was to debunk Lydia, but she was the first to tell John that he had a psychic gift of his own and encouraged him to develop it. Over several years John slowly started to perform psychic readings and learned how to control his abilities.
John studied Public Administration and Health Care Administration at college and worked in a hospital for many years. Eventually his career as a psychic medium became his full and total focus and he now devotes 100% of his time to this work.
John has appeared many times on Larry King Live and much of his early fame is attributed to his many appearances on radio shows across the USA doing live readings. He went on to publish the book "One Last Time" in 1998 which was a moderate success (...at the time, but a bestseller now!) and participated in the HBO special "Life After Life". He also appeared on many other talk shows during this time including Leeza, Sally, Entertainment Tonight, Roseanne and several other US talk shows.
In June 2000 he began production of his very own talk show "Crossing Over". At first the show was picked up solely by the SciFi channel - but before long the show took off and John became a bone-fide star. The show has since been Syndicated by CBS in the US - and is now also shown on TV in the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and Australia! The show is now filming it's fourth season - on it's third new set - and with hopefully many more years of success to come...
John Edward Australian Tour 2009
7 Nov Hordern Pavilion NSW
8 Nov Hamer Hall - The Arts Centre VIC
10 Nov The Sleeman Centre QLD
14 Nov Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre WA
16 Nov Her Majesty's Theatre SA