Derek Acorah's bitter feud with Most Haunted's Yvette Fielding after she exposed fakery

Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding's professional relationship never recovered in the wake of his controversial exit from their show Most Haunted, after she exposed him for 'faking' a spiritual possession.   The 69-year-old self-styled medium, who died last night after falling into a coma , branded his former co-star "egotistical" and "big-headed" after she revealed how he had fallen for a set-up scene.  During the filming of a 2005 Most Haunted episode at Bodmin Gaol, the show's resident sceptic Ciaran O’Keeffe left the name of a notorious South African jailer, Kreed Kafer, on a piece of paper and had spoken of his identity within Derek's earshot.   When the cameras started rolling, Derek claimed to be possessed by Kreed - but Ciaran later revealed the man was totally made up and his name was an anagram of 'Derek Faker'.  When the sting was uncovered, Derek left the show, and Yvette said the following year: "We tell people everything is real, then it turns out he was a fake, so he had to go."  Her comments sparked a war of words with Derek, who said: "She decided when I left the show that she didn't want to talk to me any more. There was no need for it and it was very sad."   He attempted to backtrack on the Kreed Kafer scandal, pinning the blame squarely on his 'spiritual guide' Sam , a ghostly presence who helped him contact the spirit world.  "I'd just like to say on virtually all psychic activity, I rely on my spiritualist guide I call Sam, but sometimes I rely heavily on my own spiritual guilds that are a custom to my surroundings and the atmosphere that I am upon," Derek said in 2006.  "When I get possessed, I cannot remember any of the actions of who has taken over me or that of my surroundings. On this occasion where the spirit Kreed Kafer came to me, I can say that I had, yes had been taken over by an entity, but the identity would have been other than that of the name that came from me.  "One explanation of what could have occurred is that the spirit that took on board myself had heard one of the crew members mention the character Kreed Kafer and this individual took on that name by means of fraud or because many people in the very distant past did not have names so this entity decided to use the one he had overheard.  "Another explanation is that I did hear in passing the name Kreed Kafer, and when I did take on board the spirit I made a genuine mistake and wrongly associated this name with the spirit. I am human and can make mistakes, especially when I am under the pressure of a reading or being taken over by an overbearing entity.  "I do however have a strong successful following in the spiritualist field and I do believe that I am a genuine medium. I am sorry if any of my lovely fans were offended by this mistake."  To make matters worse, Derek then fell for another of Ciaran's tricks in the very next episode when he claimed to communicate with a ghostly presence called 'Rick Eedles' - an anagram of 'Derek Lies'.  Derek was