"Space Camp" in Great Britain
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:54 pm
Space cadets taken in by TV hoax
The three believed they had blasted off from a cosmonaut training camp in Russia, but were in fact in a fake spaceship in a warehouse in Suffolk.
They cheered up when told they had each won ‚£25,000 ($44,300).
But one contestant, teaching assistant Keri Hasset from Birmingham, said she was "heartbroken" by the prank. (continues...)
"Ms Hasset, plasterer Paul French, 26 from Bristol, and footballer/recruitment consultant Billy Jackson, 25, from Kent, had suspicions they were being tricked when they had to hold a ceremony for a celebrity Russian dog called Mr Bimby on the spaceship..."And if we were going to space and they were weighing us for our health, they wouldn't use scales like you get at home, would they?"
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From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4537748.stm
The three believed they had blasted off from a cosmonaut training camp in Russia, but were in fact in a fake spaceship in a warehouse in Suffolk.
They cheered up when told they had each won ‚£25,000 ($44,300).
But one contestant, teaching assistant Keri Hasset from Birmingham, said she was "heartbroken" by the prank. (continues...)
"Ms Hasset, plasterer Paul French, 26 from Bristol, and footballer/recruitment consultant Billy Jackson, 25, from Kent, had suspicions they were being tricked when they had to hold a ceremony for a celebrity Russian dog called Mr Bimby on the spaceship..."And if we were going to space and they were weighing us for our health, they wouldn't use scales like you get at home, would they?"
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From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4537748.stm