Revealed: YouTube pranksters who turned the table on Just Stop Oil protesters have also fooled Carole Baskin, royal experts, anti-vaxxers, Molly Mae Hague and Tommy Fury
- Archie Manners and Josh Pieters are known in YouTube community as jokers
The YouTubers behind the entertaining kettling stunt on Just Stop Oil have targeted some of the world’s most famous faces.
There was celebration on Thursday when JSO got a taste of their own medicine after a group of counter protesters, calling themselves Just Stop P***ing Everyone Off struck.
JSPEO forced them off the road and to sit cross-legged on the ground in amusing scenes.
And as MailOnline revealed yesterday afternoon, they were led by arch pranksters Archie Manners and Josh Pieters.
Archie Manners and Josh Pieters are known in YouTube community as big time pranksters
In 2000 Pieters announced ‘we bring you Carole Baskin’s first worldwide interview’ from prank
Josh Pieters, seen here, is one half of the hugely popular YouTube pranksters duo
The pair – who have 1.44million viewers on YouTube – have gained notoriety for their online pranks, having previously duped a royal expert into commentating on Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview before it aired.
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In July 2021 they published a video suggesting anti-vaxxer Piers Corbyn was willing to accept £10,000 in exchange for an end to criticising AstraZeneca in his speeches.
Josh and Archie posed as stakeholders in AstraZeneca, who said they were concerned about the negative impact of Corbyn’s anti-vaccine speeches.
The comedy duo filmed the encounter which saw them trying to convince the former Labour leader’s brother to take £10,000 he thought came from AstraZeneca to stop criticising their vaccine.
What he actually accepted was an envelope full of monopoly money in exchange for promising to focus on Pfizer and Moderna instead of the AZ jab.
In the clip, which has gone viral on social media, Pieters can be seen purchasing shares worth £100 in AstraZeneca to ensure he could legally pose a stakeholder in the company.
Corbyn claimed afterwards: ‘The video has been very heavily edited with dishonest commentary and leaves out my repeated statements that anything we accept has to be unconditional.
Josh and Archie posed as stakeholders in AstraZeneca, who said they were concerned about the negative impact of Corbyn’s anti-vaccine speeches.
Corbyn claimed afterwards: ‘The video has been very heavily edited with dishonest commentary’
‘It is false that I agreed any change in policy whatsoever and I stated to these imposters that all Covid vaccines are dangerous and we weren’t changing any of our views against vaccines and vaccine passporting.’
In 2000 Pieters announced ‘we bring you Carole Baskin’s first worldwide interview’ – obtained by tricking the Tiger Queen into thinking she was a guest on’ The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
They set her up by claiming they represented a production company called Invisible Object that is facilitating guest appearances on talk shows.
In the chat, Baskin, who runs the Florida animal sanctuary Big Cat Rescue, said that she had to lay off 50 percent of her workers and is at the location every day to care for the animals.
The pair played the same trick as they did on Carole with Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury that same year
They utilised clips of Corden speaking to fool the pair into believing they were talking to him
‘My daughter and I still come into the sanctuary every day because we have to take care of all the big cats here,’ she said.
‘Unfortunately due to the loss of tourism revenue we’ve had to let go of about half of our staff and thankfully all of our animal care is done by volunteers.’
The pair played the same trick on Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury that year.
They duped them into believing James Corden was interviewing them for America’s The Late Late Show.
Archie’s online profiles that he is a great-grandson of Francis Henry Manners, but is unverified
Josh, who is from South Africa, has delightedly posted a picture of the newspaper coverage of their JSPEO stunt.
The delighted pair sat on their sofa at home, with the influencer dressed to impress while her boxer boyfriend scrubbed up for their ‘appearance’ via video chat, amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
In preparation for the prank, audio clips of Corden asking random questions to ‘real celebrities’ had been taken from previous shows hosted by the comedian and cobbled together for the ‘fake’ interview.
The Love Islanders were tricked by a fake producer (Archie) who explained that ‘transatlantic tech issues’ meant they couldn’t actually see James asking his questions, but were assured that he could see them.
Archie’s online profiles say he is a great-grandson of Francis Henry Manners, 4th Baron Manners and is fifteenth in the line of succession to the Manners Barony.
Josh, who is from South Africa, delightedly posted a picture of the newspaper coverage of their JSPEO stunt.
He ominously declared ‘working on something’.
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