12 Facts About John Edward

Later, John Edward worked as a phlebotomist while pursuing a degree in health care administration at Long Island University.

John Edward met his wife, Sandra McGee, when he was a student in a dance studio, and he became a ballroom dancing instructor.

John Edward published his first book, One Last Time, in 1998.

John Edward's related appearance on Larry King Live later in the year prompted enough phone calls to overload the show's switchboard.

From 2001 to 2004, Edward was the producer and host of the show Crossing Over with John Edward, which has been syndicated and was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States and on Living TV in the UK.

In Crossing Over, John Edward gave psychic readings to audience members.

Readings in Crossing Over involve John Edward questioning audience members with what is presented as information being supposedly "communicated" by deceased friends and relatives.

John Edward says he receives images and clues from "the other side" which the audience must try to interpret.

In other instances, John Edward conducted private sessions away from the studio audience.

In each episode, after a reading, John Edward is filmed visiting the person or people whose reading was televised, along with their families, to see how the experience had changed their lives.

Critics of John Edward assert that he performs the mentalist techniques of hot reading and cold reading, in which one respectively uses prior knowledge or a wide array of quick and sometimes general guesses to create the impression of psychic ability.

In October 2007, John Edward appeared on Headline Prime, hosted by Glenn Beck.