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How we made Faking It

‘I was studying at Oxford, auditioned and they said: “You’re going to be a bouncer.” I didn’t know what it entailed – and coming out on national TV wasn’t ideal’

My job was to find characters with charisma and interesting things to say. My boss at RDF Media at the time, Stephen Lambert, was experimenting by mixing entertainment formats with documentary production. Big Brother was already on the air, but it felt like we were leading the way in this new genre of television-making.

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