Irritated BBC reporter storms out of interview after celebrity’s ‘lookalike’ stunt

A frustrated BBC presenter stormed retired of an interrogation aft flying to the different broadside of the world, lone to person been pranked.

Contrvorsial societal media property Logan Paul was owed to beryllium interviewed by the BBC for allegations implicit a failed crypto project.

The 29-year-old has been accused of profiting from misleading fans, and has denied immoderate wrongdoing.

In a BBC investigation, Logan Paul: Bad Influence, writer Matt Shea was uncovering the allegations and trying to talk to Paul himself.

However, helium was near alternatively irritated erstwhile helium was alternatively confronted with a lookalike.

In a clip successful the documentary, filmmaker Shea looks astir the country and notices a ‘suspicious’ magnitude of Paul’s cameras portion waiting for him to crook up.

‘All of a sudden, it becomes wide why,’ Shea says, arsenic ‘Paul’ walks into the room.

But, it’s not really him astatine all.

Shea flew to Puerto Rico for the interview, but was near questioning the lookalike instead.

‘You look different,’ helium chuckles, arsenic ‘Paul’ replies: ‘I’m locked in, acceptable for this interview, bash you person immoderate questions?’

‘I person to say, the existent Logan Paul looks precise different,’ Shea says.

‘Is Logan coming?’ helium past asks the squad down the camera, portion the lookalike insists he’s the existent Paul.

‘I americium a superior person,’ helium claims.

Shea past chuckles and says: ‘Let’s conscionable get retired of here, I’m not doing this.’

The interrogation is past interrupted by the lookalike and a radical of radical protesting, shoving a mic and camera successful the journalist’s face.

‘Let’s get retired of here,’ Shea says, walking off.

He adds successful the documentary: ‘So alternatively than support himself against the allegations we’ve been investigating, Logan decided to troll us.

‘Minutes aft leaving the gym, we person a missive from lawyers connected behalf of Logan Paul, informing america against publishing our allegations.

‘But these allegations against him aren’t going away, successful fact, they’ve been gathering since 2021.’

As per the BBC investigation, Paul is accused of promoting crypto investments to his followers without disclosing fiscal interests.

He is alleged to person profited, with the broadcaster claiming that successful 2021, the YouTuber shared a societal media station astir a peculiar crypto coin successful 2021,and that ‘an anonymous crypto wallet with adjacent connections to his nationalist wallet had traded successful the coin’.

It’s claimed that anonymous wallet made $121,000 (£92,000) successful profit.

Metro has approached Logan Paul’s reps for comment.

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