Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups

Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups was a short hidden camera practical joke show hosted by English footballer Rio Ferdinand which was filmed shortly before the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[1] The show strongly resembled the American show Punk'd[citation needed] 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 merked!.

Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups
StarringRio Ferdinand
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of episodes1
Production
Running time75 mins
Production companiesITV Granada
Next Generation TV & Film
Original release
NetworkITV1
Release1 July 2006 (2006-07-01)

Footballers who were "Merked"

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  • Gary Neville: Neville comes for training (with Ryan Giggs) and parks his car. The police stop him and charge him for speeding and a number of traffic offences and proceed to interrogate him.
  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ Paul Kelso (18 May 2006). "Rio plays for laughs on TV". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 May 2009.