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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Monkey

McCarroll, McCarrol, McCarrol, McCarroll – let's call the whole thing a typo

Tina Brown's Daily Beast website has fallen victim to an unfortunate hoax involving the First Lady elect and the winner of TV fashion show, Project Runway. The nascent website reported that designer Jac McCarroll, who won the first series of Project Runway, had agreed to design an outfit for Michelle Obama. Except, due to an unfortunate mix-up, the dress was designed not by McCarroll but a friend of musician Jay McCarrol, who was emailed by mistake. One "l", not two, see? If that sounds like a long and complicated story, then it is, and Monkey is also running the risk that this is a hoax about a hoax. In which case we disown it entirely. Read all about it here. You would have thought the hat designed like a question mark would have given the game away, wouldn't you?

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