Red-tops caught red-handed with tall tales about celebrities

THEY are usually the purveyors of salacious celebrity scandals but the red-tops have been left red-faced having been out-scooped.

Showbiz hungry hacks offered huge sums of money to snap up stories such as Amy Winehouse setting fire to her beehive while trying to fix the electrics at a house party or Madonna’s ex Guy Ritchie giving himself a black eye while trying to juggle cutlery in a London restaurant.

What they didn’t realise was that the exclusives were in fact made up by a team of documentary-makers eager to prove journalists don’t check their facts.