Actress Kelly Brook. Photo credit: john mcnab http://flic.kr/p/aPDgyv
For a certain brand of prankster there isn’t anything much better than fooling The Daily Mail. And that’s (sort of) what filmmakers William Pine and Nimrod Frederic-Kåmer achieved this week at The Cannes International film Festival. In a film for Vice, Kåmer pretended to be a loaded businessman and interrupted at photocall at the Majestic Barriere hotel to proposition actress Kelly Brook with an offer of €1 million to spend a night with Nimrod. Brook laughed off the offer before Nimrod was ejected.
The Mail pretty much fell for the stunt and ran a story entitled “The bizarre moment Kelly Brook was approached by a French businessman who offered her €1million for ‘one night’” In the online article, Sarah Bull reported that “brandishing what appeared to be a chequebook, Kåmer, dressed in a pair of checked trousers and blue cardigan with a towel around his neck, began earnestly talking to the pair, apparently making his €1 million offer to Kelly.” To be fair to Bull, she did caution that the “there has been speculation that the incident could have been set up as some kind of stunt for the festival.”
It sure was a stunt. The prank forms part of the Vice film below in which Kåmer can be seen bothering celebrities in Cannes with ridiculous offers:
