In market for fake news

THERE were loads of shows in the early 2000s that wouldn’t get made nowadays. I don’t just mean the obvious ones, such as Little Britain and The Office, which would of course be banned now for being funny and containing jokes.

- Mike Ward

No, I’m also talking about shows where people underwent some kind of radical transformation, appearance-wise.

There was that fashion makeover thing, for example, with straight-talking style advisors Trinny and Susannah-What In The Name Of God Are You Wearing, You Weirdo?, I believe it was called.

themselves off (or hoping to) as a person so different from their true selves, working in an occupation so alien to them, that you assumed they'd be identified as an impostor in an instant, only for them frequently not to be.