Faking It

Series & Episodes

  • Factory Worker to Fashion Designer Fashion Designer

    First broadcast: Sunday 19 September 2004, 12AM on Channel 4

    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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  • History of Art Student to Graffiti Artist Graffiti Artist

    First broadcast: Sunday 12 September 2004, 12AM on Channel 4

    Twenty-year-old country boy James Sawyer has four weeks to shed the tweeds, move into an urban jungle and convince us that he's a streetwise graffiti artist.

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  • Clog Dancer to Backing Dancer Backing Dancer

    First broadcast: Sunday 05 September 2004, 12AM on Channel 4

    Jessica Wright is a 25-year-old clog dancer from Cornwall, but in a few weeks she will be performing with R&B singer Jamelia in front of thousands, live at Earls Court.

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  • Chess Player to Football Manager Chess Player

    First broadcast: Tuesday 02 March 2004, 12AM on Channel 4

    Former professional chess player Maximillion Devereaux trades his chessboard and rural idyll for the football pitch as he attempts to fake it as a football manager in a month.

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  • Faking It Changed My Life Changed My Life

    First broadcast: Tuesday 02 March 2004, 12AM on Channel 4

    A look back at the 2002 series of Faking It, following up on some remarkable developments in the lives of the participants.

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  • Newsagent to Showbiz Reporter Reporter

    First broadcast: Tuesday 24 February 2004, 12AM on Channel 4

    Twenty-nine-year-old working mum Jatinder Sumal puts her real life on hold and swaps bringing up children and working in the family newsagent for a crash course in TV reporting

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  • Choir Girl to Rock Chick Rock Chick

    First broadcast: Tuesday 10 February 2004, 12AM on Channel 4

    Twenty-year-old Christian choirgirl Laura-Jane Foley leaves behind her straight-laced Cambridge university life for London to be transformed into a rock chick.

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  • Bicycle Courier to Polo player Polo Player

    First broadcast: Tuesday 03 February 2004, 12AM on Channel 4

    Malcolm 'Woody' Woodcock, a bicycle courier from Manchester, has just four weeks in which to pass himself off as a polo player.

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  • Ferry Stewardess to Yachtswoman Yachtswoman

    First broadcast: Wednesday 11 December 2002, 12AM on Channel 4

    Twenty-eight-year-old Lucy Craig leaves her life as ferry stewardess behind for four weeks as she attempts to fake it as a yachtswoman.

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  • Games Tester to Racing Driver Racing Driver

    First broadcast: Wednesday 04 December 2002, 12AM on Channel 4

    A 23-year-old computer games tester has just a month to swap his virtual racing world for the real one and convince a team of experts that he is a bona fide racing driver.

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  • Punk Rocker to Orchestra Conductor Conductor

    First broadcast: Saturday 30 November 2002, 12AM on Channel 4

    Chris Sweeney leaves behind his life as lead singer of a punk band as he tries to fake it as an orchestral conductor in just four weeks.

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  • Web Designer to Surfer Surfer

    First broadcast: Wednesday 06 November 2002, 12AM on Channel 4

    Twenty-seven-year-old web designer Stuart Matheson leaves behind his desk-bound London life and heads for Cornwall to see if he can ride the waves and become a surfer.

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  • Insurance Salesman to Stuntman Stuntman

    First broadcast: Wednesday 30 October 2002, 12AM on Channel 4

    Matt Davies, a 31-year-old insurance man, swaps a life of risk-assessing for risk taking as he struggles to become a movie stunt man in just one month.

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  • Kickboxer to Ballroom Dancer Ballroom Dancer

    First broadcast: Wednesday 23 October 2002, 12AM on Channel 4

    Jo Weatherill, a 26-year-old black belt kickboxer from York, tries to fake it as a Latin ballroom dancer, with help from mentors Paul Harris and ex-champion Karen Hardy.

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  • Lawyer to Garage MC Garage MC

    First broadcast: Wednesday 16 October 2002, 12AM on Channel 4

    Faking It follows self-confessed 'suit' George on a month-long mission to re-invent himself as a super-cool, lyric-spitting Garage MC.

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  • Emergency Control Opertor to TV Studio Director Emergency Services Operator

    First broadcast: Wednesday 09 October 2002, 12AM on Channel 4

    Lynn Hurst, a telephone operator for the Edinburgh fire service, has just four weeks to convince some of the top names in TV that she's a live TV studio director.

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  • Naval Officer to Drag Queen Drag Queen

    First broadcast: Wednesday 02 October 2002, 12AM on Channel 4

    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 Burger

    First broadcast: Thursday 26 September 2002, 12AM on Channel 4

    Revisiting the Faking It participants we find out what impact the identity-transformation series had on their lives. From their personalities to their image, their confidence to their careers, did Faking It change them forever?

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  • Management Consultant to Dog Trainer Dog Trainer

    First broadcast: Sunday 17 February 2002, 12AM on Channel 4

    Bachelor Rob Archer is a high-flying management consultant in London, but he swaps that role for one of an expert dog trainer - in just four weeks!

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  • Showgirl to Showjumper Shelley gets to know her ride

    First broadcast: Tuesday 27 November 2001, 12AM on Channel 4

    Shelley, a nightclub dancer from south London, has never sat on a horse. Yet, in just four weeks, she will have to re-invent herself as a show jumper, and do it so convincingly as to fool judges!

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  • Ballet Dancer to Wrestler Kaspar makes pulls his moves

    First broadcast: Tuesday 20 November 2001, 12AM on Channel 4

    Kasper Cornish is a mild-mannered, talented ballet dancer from London, yet in just one month he must transform himself into a plausible, nasty, aggressive wrestling bad-boy.

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  • Sheep Shearer to Hairdresser Hairdresser

    First broadcast: Tuesday 13 November 2001, 12AM on Channel 4

    Softly-spoken country boy Gavin swaps rural bliss for the hectic streets of London to see if he can 'fake it' as a top-class hairdresser. Has he got what it takes to fool the judges?

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  • Burgerman to Chef Ed executes culinary creativity

    First broadcast: Tuesday 06 November 2001, 12AM on Channel 4

    Ed is a burger vendor by trade, but he's about to be transformed into a top haute cuisine chef, learning the trade in the kitchens of some of Britain's finest and most demanding chefs

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  • Painter and Decorator to Conceptual Artist Paul holds his bust

    First broadcast: Tuesday 01 May 2001, 12AM on Channel 4

    How will painter and decorator Paul - who has no experience in art - make it as a conceptual artist in London's notoriously fickle contemporary art world?

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  • Vicar to Car Dealer Nigel looks the part

    First broadcast: Tuesday 24 April 2001, 12AM on Channel 4

    Country vicar Nigel Done swaps his sleepy parish and clerical garb for the mean streets of Essex to learn how to be a second-hand car salesman. Will he manage the challenge?

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  • Cellist to DJ Sian mixes records like a pro

    First broadcast: Tuesday 17 April 2001, 12AM on Channel 4

    Straight-laced, classical cellist Sian Evans has just one month to transform herself into a hedonistic DJ club chick

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  • Alex the Animal Alex On the Door

    First broadcast: Monday 18 September 2000, 12AM on Channel 4

    Could you learn to be another person in just one month? This was the challenge for Alex Geiki, a sensitive 20-year-old student who becomes a nightclub bouncer.

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  • Radiographer to Fashion Photographer Fashion Photographer

    Twenty-seven-year-old David Keith swaps his life as a radiographer and tries to fake it as a fashion photographer in just four weeks

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