VANESSA Feltz’s live Channel 5 has been targeted by a prank caller AGAIN.
This time, the call-in segment asked if viewers loved or hated reunion parties.
Bea from London called in… or at least someone pretending to be Ronni Ancona’s EastEnders character Bea Pollard.
Vanessa seemed unaware of the the rogue call, but it didn’t escape the soap fans that were tuned in.
The call referenced Bea’s January arrival in the Square at a school reunion organised by Linda Carter.
Speaking on the C5 show, the caller said: “One thing I noticed, people from school were exactly the same, one group, I used to call them the pink ladies, they were popular, I noticed they still acted the same now.
“One of them I did get chatting to, let’s call her Linda, she invited me to stay with her a bit because she felt bad. We kind of connected. Everybody else I didn’t speak to again and they were very similar.
“Some of them did laugh at me and stuff because I used to make these little crochet dolls and they brought it up then. I don’t think they were being vicious but when you’ve got a lifetime memory of it you think I wouldn’t go again.”
Viewers found it hilarious and hoped it was the real Ronni dialling in.
Another wrote online: “This is BRILLIANT.”
One fans posted on X: “Lmfaoooooo not again.”
Vanessa and the show’s production team are seemingly unaware that the programme has become a hotbed for fake callers.
More than seven have made it on so far, despite ‘rigorous checks’.
One caller successfully imitated Celebrity Big Brother finalist Lauren Harries during a phone-in segment about early bed times.
Callers have also impersonated the late Kim Woodburn and made references to the case of convicted killer, Virginia McCullough.
In scenes broadcast earlier this year, a hoax caller phoned the show’s segment about commenting on people’s weight as ‘Kim from Cheshire‘.
Clearly mocking the How Clean Is Your House star, they adopted Kim’s accent and her trademark phrases about people being “cruel and two-faced” — words Kim famously used to describe her enemy Coleen Nolan on Celebrity Big Brother.
The caller also greeted Vanessa by calling her “my love”, one of Kim’s most often-used catchphrases.
Another shocking moment saw ‘Daniel from London’ tell a totally false story about his friend, Virginia, which appeared to heavily be about the case of murderer, Virginia McCullough.
Virginia killed her parents in June 2019 by poisoning them. Her concoctions killed her dad John but mum Lois survived, however, Virginia then battered and stabbed her to death.
She managed to keep their bodies hidden for four years until she was arrested in 2023.
The caller told Vanessa in a segment about ‘following your dreams’ how his friend Virginia had been in an “abysmal” place financially — with the killer having had £60,000 in debt at the time of being captured.
They said this had forced her to move back in with her parents, Lois and John, before outlining that her ‘dream’ was to be a barista and she had been trying out her recipes on those closest to her.
The caller made a chilling reference to ‘Virginia’ studying carpentry to build her own wardrobes — a direct connection to the real-life case in which Virginia stored her mother’s corpse in a wardrobe.
The caller later confirmed to The Sun that Virginia’s case was indeed the ‘inspiration’ for their ludicrous phone call.
An insider told The Sun: “Phone-in shows have long managed to fall victim to hoax callers but the rate at which they are cropping up on Vanessa is seriously alarming.
“More worrying than anything is that no one seems to have a clue that it is happening. Producers appear to be letting these calls through easily – raising serious questions about the caller vetting process.
“A harmless prank is one thing but allowing callers on who are clearly mocking dead celebrities and referring to murderers is totally shocking and unforgivable.”
In a further twist to the tale, The Sun understands it is the same group of people regularly calling into the show using the same number, sparking questions as to why production haven’t noticed the same caller with multiple identities.
The source added: “It truly beggars belief that in this day and age, not one single person working on Vanessa has realised that the same numbers are calling in time and time again with these wildly false stories.
“It makes a total mockery of the programme and its premise.
“Vanessa’s show on Channel 5 is already struggling as it is and it’s an open secret in the industry that it’s on the verge of being axed.
“The last remaining viewers she does have will now be more than likely switching off after realising they have been so horrifically duped.”
As well as the horrific impersonations, the callers have created further false stories littered with references to various pop culture moments as well as using storylines from scripted TV shows and passing them off as their own personal anecdotes.
They include references to soap operas as well as copying popular phrases and sentences from comedy characters on The Catherine Tate Show and ITV sitcom Benidorm for other moments.
One such call appeared to be based off a Coronation Street storyline which centred on the domestic abuse of Tyrone Dobbs by his wife, Kirsty Soames.
In sad scenes, she beat him with a hoover nozzle. This such storyline was then used by a prank caller on the show as if it were their own experience.
