Introducing... Crystal O'Future

If you live in Stoke, there's no bigger player on the paranormal or celebrity scene than Crystal O'Future.

"Is there a Monty here?"

Born Bev Scaggs in Norton to parents Terry and Kendra in an unspecified year ("I don't view time as a linear concept," she explains), Crystal connected with spirit guide Alan at a young age.

After finishing school and obtaining a 2:2 in Media Studies at Stoke Polytechnic, Crystal started working as a spiritual adviser to several of Stoke's coal mines, where she met future husband Keith Coolio. (Keith changed his name to Scaggs after their marriage.)

Renaming herself at spirit guide Alan's insistence, Crystal quite literally poured her heart and soul into the paranormal, working as a psychic, medium, spiritualist and astrologer in the Stoke area for many years, eventually becoming a leading light in the local scene.

As well as being astrologer for local newspapers The Daily Gargoyle and The Evening Oatcake, Crystal has written several books including 'A Medium Life', 'Scaggs For The Memories', 'Scaggs To The Future', 'The Psychic Cookbook' and the best-selling 'Crystal O'Future: My Story'.

Crystal has appeared on many TV shows including her own ITV2 specials 'Crystal O'Future: Star Psychic' and 'Crystal's Christmas House Party', and she appeared in 'Peter Andre: Going It Alone' in 2009, where she investigated the Australian pop muncher's new property. She advised Mr Andre that his property was haunted and that he needed to bury some badger bones at a nearby pet cemetary to appease angry spirits, something he did gladly.

Crystal is also the personal spiritualist to local darts world champion "Fingers" Phil Taylor. Taylor, who was convicted in 2001 of indecently assaulting two female fans in a camping van (something Crystal has distanced herself from), owes much of his success to Crystal's guidance.

Crystal was also implicated in the recent phone-hacking allegations involving The Daily Gargoyle newspaper, something she vehemently denies. ("It's a big bag of hairy old man's bollocks," she says on the topic.)