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| The video of a French girl desperately seeking an Australian boy is actually a hoax |
YESTERDAY'S story about an orphaned french girl who 'fell in love' with an Australian boy, fell pregnant and was seeking him to start a new life has turned out to be a hoax.
The not-so hilarious joke is apparently on us after Nigel Lucas, owner of an Australian holiday company, revealed it was all a prank.
Outed yesterday evening after a band of suspicious Facebook users began questioning the young girl's story, the business-owner revealed the truth.
Nigel is the owner of a Mooloolaba holiday company and was so bitter about people visiting Noosa on the Sunshine Coast and not his town, he decided to take matters into his own hands.
Taking advice from a friend who reportedly works for a 'social media company', Nigel went ahead and created a video of a French girl spinning a yarn about having 'no family'.
Speaking to the Huffington Post, Nigel said: "When people talk about the Sunshine Coast, they talk about Noosa. Mooloolaba never hits the map. [His friend at the social media company] went away, then came back and said he had an idea.
"He said it was going to upset a few people. I asked if it will achieve our goals, and he said yes."
Nigel was incredibly defensive about the stunt, which angered people who had tried to help French girl 'Natalie'.
He said: "The benefits of how it will benefit the cafe owners and hoteliers will far outstrip any negatives the campaign will generate.
"I understand, I do feel for them (people feeling upset). But if it pushes forward (local businesses') cause, then great."
Yesterday, Express.co.uk reported Natalie Amyot, from Paris, was hunting for a handsome young man with whom she flippantly spent the night with earlier this year.
Natalie claimed it was the last night of a three month trip to Australia, and she spent it frolicking with a mystery man before heading home together.
Rushing around to get to the airport on time the next morning, the French beauty 'lost her phone' and, subsequently, the young man's number.
Just six weeks later she found out she was pregnant with his child - and she said she had returned to Australia to find the gent in question.
People took this cause to their hearts and were intent on finding the young man in question. Knowing the video was a stunt perhaps isn't going to have the affect business owner Nigel wanted as the public are now angry.
One Facebook user guessed it was a hoax, writing on Express.co.uk's Facebook page: "I've heard of a story like this before and it was actually a hoax, some kind of show publicity or something."
Another simply added: "Fraud."
Looks like everyone's headed to Noosa for the summer then, Nigel.
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