LONDON, March 23 (UPI) -- John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, has denounced a TV producer's plan to conduct a pay-per-view TV séance to contact the deceased rock star.
Ono, who refused an offer from producer Paul Sharratt to appear on the program, called the show "tasteless, tacky and exploitative," The Independent reported Thursday.
Elliot Mintz, Ono's spokesman and a friend of Lennon, said the séance, to be broadcast in April via In Demand is "another example of the misuse of John's affirmation of life as opposed to the preoccupation of his death."
Lennon was "an amazing communicator of heart, mind and spirit," Mintz said. "He still speaks to those who choose to listen to his recordings. That was the medium he chose to speak with us. A pay-per-view séance was never his style."
Sharratt produced a similar program in 2003 aimed at contacting the spirit of Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
