{"id":69790,"date":"2023-10-11T17:35:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T17:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geels.net\/?p=69790"},"modified":"2023-10-11T17:35:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T17:35:58","slug":"fake-or-fortune-fans-blast-bbc-for-editing-out-fiona-bruces-blunders-on-iplayer-after-string-of-complaints-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geels.net\/beauty\/fake-or-fortune-fans-blast-bbc-for-editing-out-fiona-bruces-blunders-on-iplayer-after-string-of-complaints-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake or Fortune fans blast BBC for editing out Fiona Bruce's blunders on iPlayer after string of complaints | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
FAKE or Fortune fans have blasted the BBC for editing out Fiona Bruce's best blunders on iPlayer episodes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eagle-eyed viewers of the beloved show have accused the show of fakery and complained about iPlayer not uploading some of the series' most embarrassing gaffes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The BBC is under fire from its viewers after they noticed that some of the times presenters Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould wrongly believed a forgery was genuine art had been taken off their streaming platform.<\/p>\n
The programme follows Fiona and Phillip as they work with art collectors to establish whether their pieces are genuine or fake.<\/p>\n
Fake and Fortune has been a ratings hit for the broadcaster, but several mistakes have been incorporated into episodes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the most watched episodes, which contained an infamous blunder and has not been uploaded, involved the presenters authenticating a Monet painting, which was later confirmed as a fake.<\/p>\n
During the 2011 episode, the team fought to have the Bords de la Seine \u00e0 Argenteuil authenticated as an original Claude Monet, only to be rejected by the Wildenstein Institute.\u00a0<\/p>\n Another highly rated blunder that has been removed saw Fiona and the team track down what was thought to be an original Winston Churchill oil canvas painting in a 2015 episode, only to unveil that it was also a fake.<\/p>\n The painting portrayed a picturesque scene of a mediaeval village in southern France, which Charles Henty owned.<\/p>\n It was discovered in the coal hole of Charles' family home in London, where Churchill's daughter, Sarah, had once been owned.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The painting was dated back to the 1960s and was painted in Churchill's style but had never been authenticated before<\/p>\n On the show, they tracked down the village of St-Paul-de-Vence, with Fiona and art expert Mould trying in vain to authenticate the sunny image.<\/p>\n Eventually, collector David Coombes stated that he did not think Winston Churchill painted the picture.\u00a0<\/p>\n Five years after the episode, the British artist Paul Rafferty uncovered a 'smoking gun' in the form of a thumbnail photograph of Churchill painting the scene.<\/p>\n This confirmation by Paul led to the photo becoming authenticated.\u00a0<\/p>\n A year before that episode aired, a Churchill painting was sold at an eye-whopping\u00a0 \u00a31.8 million at Sotheby's auction.<\/p>\n Also removed\u00a0 from iPlayer is Fiona and Phillip's celebration of a dawb painted 'mainly by Lucian Freud.'\u00a0<\/p>\n During that episode, which aired in 2016, Fiona and Phillip strived to authenticate the mawkish character as a Freud original despite the artist unquestionably denying he ever painted it.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ultimately, the Fake or Fortune team got a panel of experts to agree that it was 'mostly done by Freud'.\u00a0<\/p>\n Series one of the program has not been uploaded to BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<\/picture>'WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT' <\/span><\/p>\n
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