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TV pranksters behind Putin gay rights call to Elton John
Two TV pranksters were behind the call that Sir Elton John thought was from Russian President Vladimir Putin ringing to discuss LGBTI rights.
Parts of the 11-minute conversation were aired Wednesday (16 September) on late-night talk show Vecherny Urgant on state-owned Channel 1.
The call came earlier this week after the British rocker told the BBC that he wanted to meet the Russian leader to to talk about his ‘ridiculous’ attitude toward LGBTI people.
‘I was told you wanted to discuss a few important questions about things in Russia,’ one of the hosts pretending to be Putin can be heard saying.
John responded excitedly: ‘I am a musician and a philanthropic person and a humanitarian. I’m not a politician, but I would love to sit down with the president and discuss things face to face, because I think we can solve many issues together he told the man he thought was the Russian president.
‘My position in life is that people who are gay should be included in all walks of life and given basic freedom.
‘I love Russia it’s been part of my life since 1979 and I just want to make the situation better if I can.’
Hosts Vladimir Krasnov and Alexei Stolyarov, who are known as Vova and Lexus, boasted to Russian media that Elton had no idea the call was a hoax.
‘Alexei has great English, so he introduced himself as Dmitry Peskov [Putin’s spokesperson] and translated our conversation. I was Vladimir Putin,’ Krasnov told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
‘He said: “Thank you, you’ve made my day. This day and this conversation has been the most wonderful and lovely in my life.”‘
Listen to the conversation below:
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Darren Wee
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