Three British papers discussed buying confidential medical information about actor Hugh Grant, director Guy Ritchie and other celebrities in a hoax set up by a documentary film maker. As part of the documentary "Starsuckers", which premieres at the London Film Festival later this month, the filmmakers also planted several fake reports with British tabloids to expose inaccurate celebrity gossip being reported. "We wanted to do a test to see how they would react," director Chris Atkins told Reuters. "It is just showing the public what goes on behind the stories that they pay for every day." The Starsuckers team posed as members of the public to offer the papers fabricated stories about well known-figures to test whether the journalists would check the facts. "We kept trying to do things that they wouldn't print and it happened a couple of times but they pretty much printed most of what we said," Atkins said, adding that their stories had...
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