Love may be in the air this weekend, but for ‘love doctor’ Peter Corrigan, playing Cupid is an all-year-round role.

Peter, who performs under the stage name Ricci The Psychic Love Doctor, will be spreading ‘love and light’ – the catchphrase for his psychic mediumship – with a special live television broadcast.

Ricci broadcasts readings for viewers who phone in to Sky’s Psychic Interactive programme.

A regular viewer, he contacted the programme to tell them about his own psychic powers. Following rigorous tests by the programme’s own resident psychics, Ricci was given a slot doing readings for viewers via a webcam from his Bradford home.

Because the programme is interactive, he says he can be broadcasting every day. “It’s 24/7, even on Christmas Day or at 5am,” says Ricci. “But I can switch off. I do control it. It isn’t just that I’m getting messages all the time. I have a life.”

When he isn’t doing readings he’s an avid supporter of Bradford City. I ask whether he could put his psychic powers to the test to find out when the team will enjoy some significant wins – he says he could if he tuned into the team’s energy at the start of the season!

Ricci became aware of his psychic sensitivity at the age of seven. “I just felt energy around people,” he says. “I could predict what would happen to them, especially around love and relationships. I used to go up to teenage couples and predict whether they were compatible; whether they would stay together or not. I used to get a lot of premonitions.”

Ricci struggled to understand why he was susceptible to such feelings and premonitions. His mum was fascinated with tea leaves and crystals, but he doesn’t believe psychic power is inherited. He describes it as a gift.

Ricci remembers coming across a pack of Tarot cards in a bookshop and being able to read them without having to look at the instructions. “It came naturally,” he says.

Ricci began doing readings for family and friends. His accuracy led to recommendations outside the family circle.

In his 20s, Ricci was doing one-to-one readings and hosting ‘psychic parties’ in people’s homes in Bradford and Leeds. “I have a gift for doing very accurate readings,” he says.

Around that time Ricci began exploring mediumship. He says it developed from his psychic powers. “A psychic medium has different energies. At first you take energies off other people, telling them about their future. As I did more readings I tuned in and could hear the spirits of loved ones who had passed over.”

Ricci describes himself as ‘clairsensitive.’ “That means I feel things emotionally, which is why I am so good at love relationships. I can feel what that person is feeling at that moment.”

He claims that, while many men find it difficult to express their feelings, he doesn’t. Other than a stint as a school caretaker, Ricci has been a professional psychic for a decade.

“I am on a spiritual path. It’s all connected with the energy. I do want to spread love and light around the world,” he says.

He told one woman she would meet a man and was very specific in his description of her future partner, even down to his hairstyle and colour. He even described the type of tattoo he had. The woman couldn’t believe it, but Ricci had described the man she’d just met!

He knows instinctively whether couples are compatible, but says he’s bound by a strict code of practice not to tell people what to do or to divulge any trauma they may encounter in their lives. He tells me psychics don’t judge either.

I ask whether, as is often suggested by sceptics, psychics rely on clues such as wedding rings to tell them something about the person. Confidently, Ricci tells me he doesn’t need to do that. He claims his psychic powers are genuine. During our phone chat, he certainly had me summed up. “It’s tuning into energy. I can hear your voice, you can hear mine, now we have a communication link. We are spiritually linked,” he says.

Valentine’s Day will be the first time Ricci has broadcasted live from Sky’s London studio. He will be doing readings for viewers and answering text requests too.

Since he’s the ‘Love Doctor’, I ask Ricci whether he’s planning anything romantic for his wife. He met his ‘soulmate’ and the mother of his three children 20 years ago. She was a friend of his brother’s wife.

“We just clicked straight away,” says Ricci. He plans to spend a romantic day with his wife in London before heading off to the studios. “I practise what I preach,” he says.

You can tune in to Ricci on the Psychic Interactive Channel, 886 on Sky on Saturday from 9pm to 2am. He is also appearing on BCB (Bradford Community Broadcast-ing) on March 5 at 12 noon.