I normally hate Youtube prank channels, but I’ll make an exception for once.
Tucker Carlson has been pranked over Kate Middleton‘s infamous edited photo.
The former Fox News anchor was duped by British YouTubers Josh & Archie into interviewing a fake Kensington Palace whistleblower, who was prepared to dish the dirt on the doctored image.
Archie Manners posed as the Prince and Princess of Wales’ former digital content creator, who claimed he had been fired for altering the Mother’s Day image so poorly it was rumbled by the public.
The former Fox News anchor was duped by British YouTubers Josh & Archie into interviewing a fake Kensington Palace whistleblower, who was prepared to dish the dirt on the doctored image.
The whole Kate Middleton business has been a bizarre story unto itself, and I’ll let Slate summarise it:
In case you need a refresher on the biggest tabloid story of the year, Middleton, the wife of heir apparent Prince William, has been out of the public eye since Christmas. The supposed reason for this absence was a scheduled abdominal surgery, which the Crown said would sideline her until Easter. The royal gossip apparatus tends to grow ravenous in silence, and the internet surged with all sorts of wild conspiracy theories speculating on the real reason Middleton had vanished. Some floated that she was going under the knife to receive a BBL; others asserted that the surgery was cover for alleged infidelity; and so on. But the story went truly nuclear this week when Middleton submitted, then quickly retracted, a cheery photo of herself and her three kids, which the Associated Press determined to be counterfeit due to some irregularities in the composition. In response, Middleton rushed out a baffling damage-control campaign, claiming that she had simply been experimenting with photo editing.
Apparently in the video Fucker begins by saying they’ve worked hard to prove the guys’ identity to make sure they weren’t pulling a prank, which was clearly a lie:
Archie Manners posed as the Prince and Princess of Wales’ former digital content creator, who claimed he had been fired for altering the Mother’s Day image so poorly it was rumbled by the public.
The Tucker Carlson Network, which streams on Twitter (now X), accepted his story after Manners and co-conspirator Josh Pieters forged Kensington Palace employment documents.
The YouTubers’ faked letter of engagement for the whistleblower included a clause stating that the palace had a right to amputate one of his limbs should he fail his probation period.
Carlson’s people did not spot the preposterous faked document and Manners was sent to a London studio with a hotline to Carlson for the interview.
Like I said, I have no time for prank channels but given who these guys were going after here I’ll overlook it. Alas, they appear to have had a change of heart when they realised just how many Twitter followers Fucker has and didn’t want to be responsible for spreading misinformation in case his viewers took them at face value. So it’s probably not actually going to air now. Can’t wait to see if Carlson owns up to being had or not, though…
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