Char Margolis is an American psychic medium and author who has parlayed a homespun "everyone is intuitive" pitch into a four-decade media career spanning TV, radio, books, podcasts, and Las Vegas residencies. She claims her abilities surfaced in childhood (she says she saw spirits and "read thoughts" from around age 8), and she got her start in North America on Canadian daytime TV in the late 1980s — The Dini Petty Show, plus Camilla Scott's and Vicki Gabereau's CBC programs — before becoming a fixture of U.S. and European talk shows. Below are dated summaries of her interview appearances, background, and her recurring collaboration with fellow medium John Edward.
URL: https://dai.ly/x71mva5 (Dailymotion mirror; original at OK! Magazine, https://okmagazine.com — the video is on and off YouTube/Dailymotion)
In this January 31, 2019 interview, Margolis gives an on-the-spot reading to OK!'s video host Joe Drake mid-interview — the "shocking mid-interview reading" of the title. A companion clip, "Psychic Medium Char Margolis Dishes About Her New Show 'Reading Queens'" (February 5, 2019), promoted her WOW Presents Plus series Reading Queens with Char Margolis (2019), which read for RuPaul's Drag Race alumnae.
Signature claim to fame: In a November 1, 2000 appearance on Live with Regis, she told a then-unknown fill-in co-host, Kelly Ripa, that her late grandmother was predicting "a new baby" — days before Ripa learned she was pregnant. Ripa has retold the story for years and hosted her again on Let's Talk Off Camera (August 6, 2025).
Books: Questions from Earth, Answers from Heaven (2000), Love Karma, Discover Your Inner Wisdom, The Universe Is Calling You (2020), and You Are Psychic (2022).
Career arc: Starred in her own Dutch prime-time show Char on RTL 4 from 2002 to 2010; hosted the CharVision podcast since 2015; ran the WOW Presents Plus series Reading Queens with Char Margolis (2019); appeared on RuPaul's Drag Race (March 12, 2021); and headlined a residency at Sahara Las Vegas (September 16, 2023).
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1adU2ph6Yo
Margolis, reading fill-in co-host Kelly Ripa, picked up the letter "D" (Ripa's grandmother, called "Dee"), then said her late grandmother was "watching over" her and that "there's another baby coming" — which Ripa, secretly two months pregnant, had not told anyone. Ripa recounted the story on Live with Kelly and Mark (February 12, 2020) and has hosted Margolis repeatedly since, including on her podcast Let's Talk Off Camera (August 6, 2025), where Margolis took listener calls live.
URL: https://cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/05/lkl.00.html
Margolis was a recurring Larry King Live guest alongside fellow mediums (James Van Praagh, Sylvia Browne) and skeptics (Dr. Marvin Farha, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach), doing live phone readings and defending mediumship. Larry King later said of her: "Char shared her gift on my TV show for the first time years ago and she was amazing... and I still don't know how she does it."
A prime-time Dutch show built around her readings, running multiple seasons. In 2005, Dutch TV personality Henk Westbroek wrote a column ("Char, Char, Charlatan") claiming she used cold reading and hot reading techniques during his appearance, which he said turned him into an unbeliever.
Co-headlined with John Edward (and medium Jonathan Louis) at Pollak Theatre, including a meet-and-greet and book signing with both.
URL: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rm407
Larry King interviewed John Edward and Char Margolis together; the pair connected with the studio audience and offered predictions. A central artifact of the Edward–Margolis relationship.
URL: https://staytunedmag.com/tv-news/2012/11/14/tv-medium-john-edward-char-margolis-katie/
Both mediums read studio guests and addressed criticism that mediums are frauds, alongside journalist Randall Sullivan (whose Untouchable book on Michael Jackson was also featured).
URL: https://www.spreaker.com/show/charvision
Her hour-long weekly podcast covering metaphysical, spiritual, and paranormal topics. Notable guests include John Edward (episodes October 9, 2015 and April 14, 2017).
See the referenced-interview section above; both clips promote Reading Queens, which premiered on WOW Presents Plus in January 2019 (first episode, Jiggly Caliente, January 3, 2019; James St. James, January 29, 2019).
Margolis appeared on the show, and later hosted the spinoff web series Reading Queens reading for drag performers.
A recurring guest on the show (previously Live with Kelly and Ryan), including the premiere episode of Live with Kelly and Mark on April 17, 2023.
Promoted as "internationally acclaimed intuitive psychic medium" connecting with audiences live in the Sahara Theater.
URL: https://globalnews.ca/video/10752480/discover-your-inner-psychic-with-char-margolis
Discussed her book You Are Psychic and gave a live reading to host Morgan Hoffman.
Margolis joined Kelly Ripa live to connect callers with deceased loved ones, offering dating and health advice "from the other side," with Ripa's daughter Lola Consuelos and a former RHONY cast member among the callers.
Margolis and Edward are longtime colleagues who have repeatedly shared stages, talk-show couches, and microphones:
See also: John Edward: Interviews