R.I.P. Miss Cleo, late-night TV psychic

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Cleo Harris, the TV and radio personality better known by her alter ego Miss Cleo, died earlier today in Palm Beach County, Florida, according to a report from TMZ. She had been battling colon cancer and was released to hospice care last week, according to her rep. She was 53.
Born Youree Dell Harris, she began her career as a stage actress before joining up with the Psychic Readers Network. That’s when she adopted the name “Miss Cleo” and a Jamaican accent for a series of late-night TV psychic infomercials that became a pop-culture talking point in the late ’90s, inspiring parodies on sketch-comedy programs like Chappelle’s Show: