Did we say scam artist? We meant “clairvoyant medium.” (No. We had it right the first time.)
For the blissfully uninitiated, Tyle Henry is the 22-year-old host of Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, in which he deftly employs hot and cold reading techniques to convince people he has psychic powers.
In 2015, the Independent Investigations Group awarded Henry’s show the Truly Terrible Television Award “in acknowledgment of the extraordinary ongoing deceit of the American public represented in this television program.”
You could argue it’s all in good fun, but critics like Neurologist Steven Novella say that “working with the grieving is very tricky. The potential for harm is tremendous.” He calls Henry a “grief vampire.”
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The show is about to begin its third season on E!, so who knows, maybe Henry really does have powers to contact the dead (he doesn’t), and maybe the best use of those powers is to tell Latoya Jackson who was in the room with Michael when he died (it isn’t).
https://www.instagram.com/p/BfeSuQDAvGP/?hl=en&taken-by=tylerhenrymedium
Whether he is the real deal (ha), delusional or just your garden variety scammer, Henry has opened up about what it’s like when his boyfriend Clint’s dead relatives “make contact.”
“One of the beauties of intuition is that if I was interacting with someone that didn’t feel right or they were kind of creeped out by what I was able to do, then they clearly weren’t the right fit,” Tyler explained to E!
“And I’m really thankful with Clint, he from the get-go understood this, was open to it and he respects it. And there’s still times where we’ll be hanging out at 11 o’clock at night and something will come through from his grandfather or I’ll get a message for his family and he understands that I kind of have to get it out so we can go about our evening.
“So it’s a little awkward but he understands how I work and when I see something I just have to share it so I can go back to focusing on whatever I was doing.
“I’m going to have to start charging him,” he joked.
DCguy
I blame E for having an obvious scam artist on and giving him a platform.
jaack
PREYing on the grieving is one of the lowest lifeforms there is. Having E! pay him and put this SCAM on the air shows how LOW networks will go to make MONEY!
I talk to my dead Uncle who I never met, he died at the Battle Of the Bulge Jan 6, 1945, But he never talks back to me. Greif Vampire is too kind. Money sucking SCAM ARTIST is too kind too.
E! lost my viewing time forever.
happiness17
The fact that Henry is still on the air is because there are people who actually believe his crap and keep on watching the show. It’s the same
thing with the Kardashians. The reason why that group of whores is
still on the air is because there are people who keep on watching the show.
There really are some very naïve people who believe Henry’s BS.
Onecaddy13
Call me skeptic,? Non-believer? I only believe in one person. The almighty!!! fake just like CNN..
Brian Lange
Oh hes just a fun little gay boy having fun lighten up a successful pussyboi nice for a change
ChrisK
Looks like he’s trying to be the next John Edwards. I’d watch his show sometimes and wonder where and how he’s getting his info. I don’t believe for a second it’s coming from dead relatives though.
ChicagoSteve
Have you ever seen the South Park episode called the biggest douche in the universe? It’s pretty funny and they pretty much show how John worked his “magic” on the audience.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=daWJTSvi97c
JaredMacBride
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
Polaro
Yeah, when it comes to truth, this is no worse than wrestling, roller derby, TV preachers or any right-wing talking head. So, I give him a pass; his gimmick is benign. As for the grieving people who agree to go on TV and do this kind of nonsense – they know exactly what they signed up for – their shot at 5 minutes in the spotlight.
jaack
Underestimating how hard people find it to let go of the DEAD loved ones make it easy for these CREEPS to prey on the grieving. The intelligence of the American people is an oxymoron.
ChrisK
When I first looked at the pic I thought it was some random lesbian and MaCaulay Culkin.
IanHunter
You are exactly right!!!
Polaro
Snap!
BearCityGreg
Same!
tham
Haha I was going to say Tig Notaro and MaCaulay Culkin.
Hussain-TheCanadian
ROFL!!! Oh F*ck my stomach.
happiness17
ChrisK-I thought it was Macaulay Culkin. It’s hard to believe that Henry and his boyfriend are 22. My god they look like they’re 15. What this guy Henry
does is cruel. To claim that he can reach people’s loved ones when he’s full
of shit is wrong. Unfortunately a lot of people are so desperate to have
contact with their deceased loved ones that they believe Henry.
BigDaddy58
Ditto.. LMAO!.?
IanHunter
Do they eat? Or, are they just trying to become one of those living Barbie couples.
Polaro
Twinks – it’s a look; one I highly approve. Age will catch them though…as it will catch us all.
jaack
Looks like porn pays a well as the Medium Scam.
But lying down with your clothes off and legs in the air, bare-assed, moaning occasionally makes good money with good skin & a mouthful of teeth..Doesn’t require much effort!
These twinks have a career in the PORN industry, which I can be their agents. Maybe sample the goods on the way to the casting couch.
joseph_buscarino
I guess it really isn’t all that different then the televangelists who make money off the guilible and people and desperate, except unlike him they probably cause real damage. I actually believe in channeling, psychic ability etc, do I believe he has it? probably not, doubt anyone with any true gifts would market themselves in such a way as opposed to actually trying to help people. But in the age of consumerism, are we really surprised at anything at this point.
batesmotel
I’m with you on that. I’m open minded to all psychic phenomena, but I’ve watched a few episode clips of this guy and something just feels off. I can’t place my finger on it, but apparently others feel the same way. It’s like you said those that have gifts aren’t running around trying to be on T.V. Readings are supposed to be an intimate thing. You don’t have cameras rolling.
macahec
Has anyone of the ones that are commenting take a session with him? David Grant by first hand have you?
MikeE
One doesn’t need to “take a session” with a scam artist to know that they are a scam artist.
If someone says they are contacting your dead relatives, you KNOW they are frauds, since no one can contact dead people. Ghosts don’t exist except in the heads of feeble-minded idiots.
batesmotel
Not true MikeE. Feeble minds are generally closed minds. Closed minds have no access to anything outside of themselves. You’re too bitter and self involved to have connection to have a say in it. You don’t have the market cornered on it, so sit back down.
jorgecruz
I don’t need to have sex with Roseanne Barr to know that it would make me vomit. Do you need to spend time in prison to know that it is an unpleasant place to live?
Doug
Watch how this guy uses emphatic listening while the host is talking (“Sure…” “Right…”) It’s funny.
Brian Lange
oh hes is a likable sissy that old women just love why are you idiots so hard hes 22 OK a kid
edc
Guaranteed she is a big power bottom who must get plowed with his legs rotating like a helicopter blade!
Hillers
There was a comment on Jezebel some time ago posted by some Hollywood insider about how this kid and his mom had shopped this scam of a show (openly acknowledging that it was a scam) to multiple networks before they landed on E!. I’d just assumed he was some bigwig’s butt buddy in order to get the gig.
irbaboon
He needs a long hard spanking
Daniel-Reader
Easy to prove him one way or the other. Take him a federal or state prison. Surround him with inmates and he should be able to tell everyone which inmates have victims and who those victims were/are.
mirosa25
Leave that dude alone. If these celebs what to pay him so be it. He’s making bank. Why does anyone care.
P.S. I’d bang him while he’s telling me about my dead relatives.?
BGinBigD
Ewwww! How hard up are you?
Greg
A guy from work went to see Tyler Henry at a book signing last year. It was around the time that the episode with Corey Feldman aired where Tyler claimed to have had a connection with Feldman’s deceased friend, Corey Haim. I thought it was fake. Tyler would make a vague statement and Feldman would fill in the blanks. Anyways, back to the office co-worker. He went to see Tyler at a book signing and when it was his turn, Tyler told him something about his birthday. Which happened to be that day of the book signing.
I used to think the Long Island Medium was legit. But recently I heard that she is a fraud.
hellinhaven
who the hell is this ridiculous twerp??? LOL
jorgecruz
Kudos to E Television for finding someone with less talent and personality than the Kardashians. That wasn’t easy to do.