Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups
Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups | |
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Created by | Rio Ferdinand |
Starring | Rio Ferdinand |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of episodes | 1 |
Production | |
Running time | 75 mins |
Production company(s) |
ITV Granada Next Generation TV & Film |
Release | |
Original network | ITV1 |
Original release | 1 July 2006 |
Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups was a short English hidden camera practical joke show hosted by English footballer Rio Ferdinand which was filmed shortly before the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[1] The show strongly resembled the American show Punk'd which is hosted and produced by Ashton Kutcher. Ferdinand chose certain English footballers to play a prank on. The pranks would usually end with the catchphrase You got merk'd!.
English Footballers who have been "Merk'd"
- Gary Neville: Neville (and Giggs) comes for training and parks his car. Cops stop him and charge him for speeding and a number of traffic offences and proceed to detain Giggs and interrogate Neville.
- Ashley Cole: Cole is visiting a music recording studio for a charity deal. The sound engineer's American partner then accuses him of deleting the track vocal parts and messing things up.
- Shaun Wright-Phillips: Wright-Phillips accidentally gets a waiter fired. (John Terry was supposed to be the victim but he found out after seeing the message in his wife's mobile phone explaining the prank. Terry then found Wright-Phillips as a substitute.)
- Peter Crouch: Crouch is offered an investment deal by an Indian businessman whose Russian business partners later barge in and demand money.
- Wayne Rooney: Rooney is visiting a dogs' home with his wife Colleen when a little boy's dog dies.
- David James: James goes to an art gallery and he is accused of breaking a piece of artwork made by a French artist.
- David Beckham: Beckham is picked up by a driver that takes a detour to make him late for his meeting.
Accomplices
- Colleen McLoughlin (Wayne Rooney's girlfriend and now his wife, knew about prank)
- Ryan Giggs (in the Gary Neville prank)
- John Terry (gets Shaun Wright-Phillips involved)
- Robbie Fowler (in the Peter Crouch prank)
References
- ↑ Paul Kelso (2006-05-18). "Rio plays for laughs on TV". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
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