His wife, Gwen Acorah Johnson, announced the news of Acorah’s passing on her Facebook page.

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“Farewell my love! I will miss you forever!” she wrote, adding that he passed away after a “very brief illness.”

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Days before his passing, a post on his Facebook page said Acorah was suffering from the flu.

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Acorah was best known for his work as the guest medium in the British paranormal reality TV series “Most Haunted” from 2002 to 2005.

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Yvette Fielding, his co-host on “Most Haunted,” tweeted, “Our condolences go out to Derek’s family at this time x.”

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Born in Liverpool in 1950, Acorah was a professional football player in Australia until his late 20s when a leg injury forced him to leave the sport, according to a bio on his website.

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Acorah returned to the England and became a popular spiritual medium, appearing on radio and TV shows since the early 1990s.

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In 2017, he appeared on the British reality television series “Celebrity Big Brother” and finished in fourth place.

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Acorah was planning several live performances in the UK for February and May, according to his website.

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