Twenty-four-year-old factory worker Mick Wigham leaves the grittiness of the production line for the glamour of the catwalk as he tries to fake it as a fashion designer.
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Factory Worker to Fashion Designer
Sun 19 Sep 2004
Twenty-four-year-old factory worker Mick Wigham leaves the grittiness of the production line for the glamour of the…
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History of Art Student to Graffiti Artist
Sun 12 Sep 2004
Twenty-year-old country boy James Sawyer has four weeks to shed the tweeds, move into an urban jungle and convince us…
- Graffiti in a public place is against the law unless you have permission from the relevant authority.
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Clog Dancer to Backing Dancer
Sun 05 Sep 2004
Jessica Wright is a 25-year-old clog dancer from Cornwall, but in a few weeks she will be performing with R&B singer…
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Chess Player to Football Manager
Tue 02 Mar 2004
Former professional chess player Maximillion Devereaux trades his chessboard and rural idyll for the football pitch as…
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Faking It Changed My Life
Tue 02 Mar 2004
A look back at the 2002 series of Faking It, following up on some remarkable developments in the lives of the…
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Newsagent to Showbiz Reporter
Tue 24 Feb 2004
Twenty-nine-year-old working mum Jatinder Sumal puts her real life on hold and swaps bringing up children and working…
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Choir Girl to Rock Chick
Tue 10 Feb 2004
Twenty-year-old Christian choirgirl Laura-Jane Foley leaves behind her straight-laced Cambridge university life for…
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Bicycle Courier to Polo player
Tue 03 Feb 2004
Malcolm 'Woody' Woodcock, a bicycle courier from Manchester, has just four weeks in which to pass himself off as a polo…
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Ferry Stewardess to Yachtswoman
Wed 11 Dec 2002
Twenty-eight-year-old Lucy Craig leaves her life as ferry stewardess behind for four weeks as she attempts to fake it…
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Games Tester to Racing Driver
Wed 04 Dec 2002
A 23-year-old computer games tester has just a month to swap his virtual racing world for the real one and convince a…
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Punk Rocker to Orchestra Conductor
Sat 30 Nov 2002
Chris Sweeney leaves behind his life as lead singer of a punk band as he tries to fake it as an orchestral conductor in…
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Web Designer to Surfer
Wed 06 Nov 2002
Twenty-seven-year-old web designer Stuart Matheson leaves behind his desk-bound London life and heads for Cornwall to…
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Insurance Salesman to Stuntman
Wed 30 Oct 2002
Matt Davies, a 31-year-old insurance man, swaps a life of risk-assessing for risk taking as he struggles to become a…
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Kickboxer to Ballroom Dancer
Wed 23 Oct 2002
Jo Weatherill, a 26-year-old black belt kickboxer from York, tries to fake it as a Latin ballroom dancer, with help…
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Lawyer to Garage MC
Wed 16 Oct 2002
Faking It follows self-confessed 'suit' George on a month-long mission to re-invent himself as a super-cool…
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Emergency Control Opertor to TV Studio Director
Wed 09 Oct 2002
Lynn Hurst, a telephone operator for the Edinburgh fire service, has just four weeks to convince some of the top names…
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Naval Officer to Drag Queen
Wed 02 Oct 2002
Spence Bowdler, a 30-year-old ex-naval officer and self-confessed 'macho' man, transforms into a drag queen.
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Faking it Changed My Life
Thu 26 Sep 2002
Revisiting the Faking It participants we find out what impact the identity-transformation series had on their lives…
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Management Consultant to Dog Trainer
Sun 17 Feb 2002
Bachelor Rob Archer is a high-flying management consultant in London, but he swaps that role for one of an expert dog…
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Showgirl to Showjumper
Tue 27 Nov 2001
Shelley, a nightclub dancer from south London, has never sat on a horse. Yet, in just four weeks, she will have to…
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Ballet Dancer to Wrestler
Tue 20 Nov 2001
Kasper Cornish is a mild-mannered, talented ballet dancer from London, yet in just one month he must transform himself…
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Sheep Shearer to Hairdresser
Tue 13 Nov 2001
Softly-spoken country boy Gavin swaps rural bliss for the hectic streets of London to see if he can 'fake it' as a…
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Burgerman to Chef
Tue 06 Nov 2001
Ed is a burger vendor by trade, but he's about to be transformed into a top haute cuisine chef, learning the trade in…
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Painter and Decorator to Conceptual Artist
Tue 01 May 2001
How will painter and decorator Paul - who has no experience in art - make it as a conceptual artist in London's…
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Vicar to Car Dealer
Tue 24 Apr 2001
Country vicar Nigel Done swaps his sleepy parish and clerical garb for the mean streets of Essex to learn how to be a…
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Cellist to DJ
Tue 17 Apr 2001
Straight-laced, classical cellist Sian Evans has just one month to transform herself into a hedonistic DJ club chick
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Shop Girl to It Girl Tue 26 Sep 2000
Like a modern day Eliza Dolittle, Lisa from Yorkshire agrees to leave her job in a local shop, and try to convince a…
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Alex the Animal
Mon 18 Sep 2000
Could you learn to be another person in just one month? This was the challenge for Alex Geiki, a sensitive 20-year-old…
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Radiographer to Fashion Photographer
Twenty-seven-year-old David Keith swaps his life as a radiographer and tries to fake it as a fashion photographer in…
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