A YouTuber in the U.K. is earning a wide rangeof online reactions after tricking several celebritiesinto appearing on a fake talk show.Josh Pieters, who has becomeinfamous for his elaborate onlinepranks, shared a video on May 1.
In where he revealed that he’d convinced severalfamous people that they were appearing on anepisode of “The Late Late Show with James Corden”.In the clip, Pieters interviews Britishcelebrities over a video call, usingold recordings from Corden’s showto simulate a real conversation.The YouTuber also got some helpfrom his friend, Archie Manners, whopretended to be the show’s producer.Manners, who set up the “interviews” withpeople like Grammy-winning musician Craig David,magician Julius Dein and “Love Island” it couple Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury.told the guests that Corden, calling infrom his home, could see them on video.
However, he managed to convinceeach of them that, for technical reasons,they could only hear his audio.“Obviously, they’re filming [Corden] on the properCBS cameras in his house,” Manners explains.Pieters then conducted full interviews with eachunknowing celebrity, simply by queuing up old clipsof Corden asking questions on his show.Thanks to audio from a David Blaine performance on the “Late Late Show” Pieters even convinced Dein, the magician, to put on a full at-home magic routine.The stunt, which has earned hundreds ofthousands of views between two videos, receivedboth praise and criticism from YouTube users.Many said that Pieters, who has a history of pushinghis pranks to elaborate extents, was going too far.“This is just sad, what have these people ever doneto you?
What’s the point of wasting their time,making them disappointed and probably embarrassedthat they weren’t actually on the show”.“[Pieters] is gonna get sued one of these days butuntil then, we need more of this asap,” another added.Others were less upset by the idea and arguedthat, despite the embarrassment, the celebritieswere still getting some kind of exposure.“To be fair, they did get interviewed and plenty ofpeople are going to see it,” one user commented.Just a few days after his “Late Late Show” prank,Pieters went viral for a similar stunt, in which hetricked “Tiger King” star Carole Baskin into her firstpublic interview since the Netflix documentary aired.This time, Pieters used audio from old episodes of“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” to convinceBaskin she was appearing on Fallon’s show