Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups
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| Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Rio Ferdinand |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 75 mins |
| Production companies | ITV Granada Next Generation TV & Film |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV1 |
| Release | 1 July 2006 |
Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups was a short 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[citation needed] 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 merked!.
Footballers who were "Merked"[edit]
- Gary Neville: Neville comes for training (with Ryan Giggs) and parks his car. The police stop him and charge him for speeding and a number of traffic offences and proceed to interrogate him.
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ Paul Kelso (18 May 2006). "Rio plays for laughs on TV". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 May 2009.