I quit my TV presenter job to become a professional WIZARD… I charge X-Factor stars £3,000 a pop for ‘healing sessions’
A FORMER presenter and model quit her career in TV to become a full-time “wizard” with celebrity patients.
Antonia Harman, 43, charges £3,000 to attend live video sessions where she helps clients heal from physical and emotional trauma.
Although she freely admits to being “bonkers”, Antonia has built up hundreds of clients while operating from her home in Cornwall.
Her career started off on a much different footing, though, and she was a regular on TV screens.
Antonia hosted quiz show Sweet and Sassy during the early 2000s before starring as a Sky gameshow host in a career that saw her work alongside the likes of Keith Lemon.
But despite having a “mainstream” upbringing, she recalls how she became “very alternative” overnight.
She told The Sun: “It was very unexpected, all of this. I was really not into healing or magic.
“Maybe I had a couple of books on crystals, and thought about it a little bit when I was much younger.
“When my my granddad died, I knew before I was first told as he came to me as I was sleeping. He sort of said goodbye to me in the night.
“Then I remember my mum came and woke me up in the morning and told me he’d passed – but I just already knew.
‘I told a police officer I was a wizard’
“That was that that was one of the earliest sort of things that happened to me, but it really sort of stemmed from.”
It acted as a catalyst for Antonia to begin delving into books on energy healing before embarking on a five-day course.
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She also recalled pulling a “foot-long energetic parasite” from her friend’s ear when in a restaurant toilet.
Now Antonia counts celebrities among her clients, including a former X Factor star whose throat she claims to have cleared of tonsillitis before removing a ghost from her London home.
Now the self-proclaimed wizard writes “healer” when filling in official documents.
She vividly remembers the first time she gave herself the title – to a police officer after being approached in her car.
Antonia said: “It was utterly ridiculous. I was stationary with my engine on and handbrake up while checking my maps app, but there had just been a change in the law so I was looking at my phone illegally.
“I got a ‘ratatat’ on my window and it was a police officer. They gave me some points and a fine and then I got sat in the police car and had to fill in these forms.
“The officer asked what I do for a living and I just said I was a wizard.
‘I was never really into magic’
“I just thought ‘do you know what, I’m gonna own it now’, so I’m legally down on some forms as being a wizard by the police.”
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Antonia also published her first book last year, Energy Secrets: How to Live to Your Full Potential, and runs her company Divine Empowerment.
She charges £3,000 for clients to undergo her healing processes, or £55-per-month for clients to receive multiple informational videos.
Antonia continued: “I’m very cutting edge in the work that I do, so I think I’m always going to be slightly fringe.
“But a lot of people are open to this, and things like ‘Reiki’ and ‘chakras’, and even yoga.
“In 2007, was sort of on the fringe side, so it’s really wonderful that people are now much more open to this sort of work and and exploring different things.”