BBC News: A prominent BBC News sign language interpreter has been sacked after complaints from deaf people revealed that she was ‘sometimes embellishing, sometimes just making stuff up.’
Leslie Grange, 32, has been a sign language interpreter for seven years. In a statement today she cited ‘personal difficulties – particularly a crushing professional boredom’ as to why, over the past six months, she had started deviating from what was actually being reported, giving deaf viewers an often ‘wildly different version of events’.
“Questions started to be raised around the time of the Japanese earthquake when several viewers emailed us to complain about our reports of radioactive zombies sighted near the nuclear reactor. We dismissed them as some sort of organised hoax.”
“However, when there were similar numbers getting in touch to ask if Rebekah Brooks was really in trouble for raping a monkey, and why the BBC was claiming that, as a special summer treat, the Prime Minister had told the nation’s teenagers they didn’t have to pay for anything any more, we realised something was wrong.”
“I would like to apologise to everyone in the deaf community,” Grange told reporters today, “though when I had Cameron tell Obama “your statesmen-like profile leaves my willy plump” – well, frankly I don’t think that is so very far from the truth.”
Story: Jasper Gibson
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Are you sure YOU are not being wound up Alex by someone who knows it is fake but is pretending it is real merely to get you to bite?
Layers under layers under layers…
yes! This is indicative of a raise, this lady is BOSS
is this inception?
Marry me Leslie!
Reading this on the bus on way to work. Laughed out loud. Amazing
Nice hoax guys!
It fooled; France Info, France Soir, Le Parisien, Canal +, RTL… today amongst others, I was woken early by my French company (won’t say who) to cover it!!!! Took me 5 seconds to search out it was a fake, (no other British media coverage!) made me laugh…once I was awake!
http://www.meltybuzz.fr/leslie-grange-une-fausse-histoire-qui-a-piege-actu91990.html
I think that it was quite strange and a bit stupid (no offense!)but a good hoax ,sill.
Con: Keeps deaf people from knowing what the true news is.
Pro: Makes the news fun again for people who do understand sign language!
heard this on capital radio this morning, made me crack up def lifted this mornings spirits! hilarious esp the ‘crushing professional boredom’
give her a medal for the service to humour and laughter, and for defying “crushing professional boredom”..
I think what really gave her away were the signs she started doing for Cameron, Clegg and Milliband…
She deserves a stand-up comedy slot of her own. Hilarious!