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1) Hold on to your hats, etc and so on: it’s deadline-day week again. Sky’s biannual show has definitely lost something since the gurning youths, wrestling youths, bantzing youths and dancing youths were screened out after 2014’s sex-toy-gate – and Harry Redknapp’s car window losing its news value was a setback too. These days it’s all a bit more sanitised, a bit less edgy, a bit more like this. But it still deserves respect: it was pioneering broadcasting in its heyday – and it’s where fake news first took root. Here’s pretend footballer Jason Bent signing for QPR – and Sky’s Gary Cotterill rumbling it: “There’s a false thing just happened here ...”
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