Spy Review

Sadly, it has been announced that Jeremy Beadle has passed away. He died from pneumonia after being diagnosed with a form of leukaemia. The news will come as a shock to all those that can remember his incredibly popular hidden camera show ‘Beadle’s About’ on ITV. The show would carry out practical jokes on people that had no knowledge they were actually victims of a prank.

Spy Review is reporting this because some of the techniques used on the show would be familiar to the readers of this blog because of the use of covert techniques to carry out the pranks and, of course, the hidden TV camera used to capture the moments was the equivalent of a spy camera that many of us will have used or read about.

Many of the pranks were absolutely hilarious because the victims were completely oblivious to what we, the viewers, took it as granted and knew it inevitable that they would fall victim. To us, it was their stupidity of not knowing better, but I bet if we were in the same position, we wouldn’t have done any better.

The success of the show was down to incredible planning and help from friends of the victims to play in on the act, but I am sure there were few cases where the potential victims probably sussed it out and they would have to gone back to the drawing board and start all over again on a different person. Of course, we will never know for certain because if there were, they would have been cut.