If I told you that entrepreneurs had launched the first celebrity sperm bank, would you believe me?
Fame Daddy says it is "the world's first service to offer a top-class portfolio of celebrity sperm." It says that its clients are ex-footballers (it's a British site), aristocrats, entrepreneurs, rock stars, and actors–and it includes their net worth.
Oh, and one more thing:
*It's a hoax.
And it's a good enough one to have fooled This Morning, a daytime show on Britain's ITV. The "CEO" of Fame Daddy appeared on This Morning Tuesday, and yesterday ITV was forced to admit it had been fooled: It said the man was "an actor working for a TV production company."
Fame Daddy also fooled the The Globe and Mail in Canada, which, as of this writing Friday afternoon, has not yet taken down a story headlined, "Get starstruck: Fertility service to offer celebrity sperm." The story may disappear before you read this, so let's make sure we archive the lede for the ages:
You’ll probably never actually get to the chance to spend a night with a film star or pro athlete, but a new fertility service is offering the opportunity make a baby with one.
The second graf is worse, inadvertently trampling right across the truth:
It sounds like it could be a hoax designed to prank die-hard celebrity hounds, but Fame Daddy, which claims it expects to launch next year, promises to match hopeful mothers with sperm donated by “a top class portfolio of donors from across the celebrity world…”
A video on Fame Daddy's home page nearly gives away the game. A handsome narrator intones, "Do your friends consider you unattractive? Are you unsuccessful in sport and business? Are you fat?
"If you've answered 'yes' to any of those questions, then I would advise you to, please, stop breeding."
-Paul Raeburn
Thanks to Jim Handman of CBC's Quirks and Quarks for the heads-up on this.
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