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Channel 4 has been forced to abandon a series of its hit show ‘Faking It’ after a man failed to persuade a panel of World War 2 veterans that he was a genuine M4 Sherman Tank. The dismal result came despite participant Matthew Edwards being extensively trained and fully briefed by a motivational expert and military historian. ‘We lined up a row of tanks and they just spotted immediately which one was a man holding up his arm to pretend to be a gun turret. It’s was all a bit pathetic, really.’

The failure in the show is the latest episodes in which members of the public have been unable to achieve convincing transformations, even after much training from the professionals. In the first programme an unemployed man from Cornwall failed to pass himself off as Junction 7 on the M6 motorway, whilst the second episode saw a teenage girl attempting to convince people that she was Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. ‘She put her arms above her head in a big summit-like point and everything, but the experts were just too sharp for her.’ Last week featured a frail 97 year old woman from Whitstable in Kent who despite her best efforts was spotted as a fake the moment she tried to pass herself off as an iPod Nano.

‘I tried to make myself as small as possible. And make lots of beeping sounds but the trouble was I’ve never actually seen one, I don’t really know what they are’ she said. Channel 4 stated it had been a brave decision to appoint a new producer to the show who had endeavoured to push the envelope of the series, but was disappointed in the results of the programmes so far.

However it has transpired that the show’s innovative new boss was not a genuine TV producer at all, just someone who had walked in off the street and had sounded like they knew what they were doing.

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Posted: Jun 20th, 2008 by NewsBiscuit