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Rio's World Cup Wind Ups

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Created by
  
Rio Ferdinand

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

Running time
  
75 mins

Network
  
ITV

Program creator
  
Rio Ferdinand

Starring
  
Rio Ferdinand

No. of episodes
  
1

First episode date
  
1 July 2006

Number of episodes
  
1

Genre
  
Reality television

Production company(s)
  
ITV Granada Next Generation TV & Film

Similar
  
A League of Their Own, Punk'd, Match of the Day 2

Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups was a short English hidden camera practical joke show hosted by English footballer Rio Ferdinand which was filmed shortly before the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The show strongly resembled the American show Punk'd which is hosted and produced by Ashton Kutcher. Ferdinand chose certain English footballers to play a prank on. The pranks would usually end with the catchphrase You got merk'd!.

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English People who have been "Merk'd"

  • Gary Neville: Neville (and Giggs) comes for training and parks his car. Cops stop him and charge him for speeding and a number of traffic offences and proceed to detain Giggs and interrogate Neville.
  • Ashley Cole: Cole is visiting a music recording studio for a charity deal. The sound engineer's American partner then accuses him of deleting the track vocal parts and messing things up.
  • Shaun Wright-Phillips: Wright-Phillips accidentally gets a waiter fired. (John Terry was supposed to be the victim but he found out after seeing the message in his wife's mobile phone explaining the prank. Terry then found Wright-Phillips as a substitute.)
  • Peter Crouch: Crouch is offered an investment deal by an Indian businessman whose Russian business partners later barge in and demand money.
  • Wayne Rooney: Rooney is visiting a dogs' home with his wife Colleen when a little boy's dog dies.
  • David James: James goes to an art gallery and he is accused of breaking a piece of artwork made by a French artist.
  • David Beckham: Beckham is picked up by a driver that takes a detour to make him late for his meeting.

    • Accomplices

  • Colleen McLoughlin (Wayne Rooney's girlfriend and now his wife, knew about prank)
  • Ryan Giggs (in the Gary Neville prank)
  • John Terry (gets Shaun Wright-Phillips involved)
  • Robbie Fowler (in the Peter Crouch prank)

    • References

    Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups Wikipedia
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