Comedian Omid Djalili is full of surprises. Especially when it comes to Donald Trump, who shares his passion to fight fake news. Only Omid’s quest is restricted to shattering just one myth - that Richard III, whose remains were discovered under a Leicester car park, was a hunchback and a tyrant.
Somewhat counterintuitively, he is hoping to rewrite history, establish the truth of what happened at the Battle of Bosworth and prove King Richard to be a hero and not a villain, with the help of a psychic, Konstantin Pavlidis. He calls him a “metaphysical Sherlock Holmes.”.
But that’s Omid all over – a mass of contradictions and tales of the hilariously unexpected. A desire to debunk fake news is not the only thing he has in common with Donald Trump either …(more later!) In a rather alternative Sky History show called Battlefield Healers, Omid examines how the Battle of Bosworth - fought as part of the Wars of the Roses - changed England forever.
And Konstantin uses his powers to discover where the last king to die in battle fell and to heal the blood-soaked earth from the ghosts of a 400-year-old war. Speaking exclusively to The Mirror, during a break from his sell-out stand-up UK tour, Namaste, Omid says the whole experience, working with spiritualists, historians and archeologists, banished his skepticism.
