Faith Daniels TV Hoax "Sex Tapes Saved Marriage"
Joey Skaggs got a phone call from a video producer friend in San Diego. The friend had received a call from producers of the Faith Daniels Show, a national talk show taped in New York, because he had produced a series of tapes about how to strip for your man. Daniels wanted to do a segment on "Sex Tapes -- Do They Work?" and wondered if he had any satisfied clients. He called Skaggs to see if he wanted to hoax the show.
Skaggs immediately faxed his friend a letter telling him how much the tapes had helped his marriage. And the friend forwarded the letter to the show. When the producers contacted Skaggs and invited he and his wife to be guests, Skaggs arranged for a male impostor to play him and for a female impostor to play his fictitious wife.
The Skaggs impostors were picked up by limousine and taken to the studio. The format of the show was such that they were asked to sit in the audience and stand up to speak when asked about how sex tapes had saved their marriage.
After the show aired Skaggs let the media know about the ruse. Personally, he wouldn't go on the show because he has no respect for these types of shows. They are contrived, and they have no shame. His objective had been to hoax a show that constantly hoaxes its audience.
When the show's producers were contacted by the media about the hoax, they denied that Mr. & Mrs. Skaggs had even been invited. They said these two people had just appeared out of nowhere and stood up in the audience.
Enough said.
© 1997 Joey Skaggs