YouTubers’ fake celebrity interview prank highlights how easily anyone can fall for online impersonators


Pieter's partner Manners (top left) conducting a Zoom video call session with Holly H in the prank video, who was under the impression that she was doing an interview with Corden (right). — Screengrab from YouTube

Zoom video calls, some email exchanges and pre-recorded sound bites were all it took for a pair of YouTubers to fool celebrities into thinking they were doing interviews with popular talk shows hosts James Corden and Jimmy Fallon.

UK-based YouTubers Josh Pieters and Archie Manners posted a series of videos this week to show viewers how they pranked celebrities like singer Craig David and reality television personality Carole Baskin into believing that they were talking to popular talk show hosts through Zoom.

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