Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups
Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups was a short hidden camera practical joke show hosted by English footballer Rio Ferdinand which was filmed shortly before the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The show strongly resembled the American show Punk'd which is hosted and produced by Ashton Kutcher. Ferdinand chose certain English footballers to play a prank on. The pranks would usually end with the catchphrase — You got merked!.
Footballers who were "Merked"
- Gary Neville: Neville comes for training and parks his car. The police stop him and charge him for speeding and a number of traffic offences and proceed to interrogate him.
- Ashley Cole: Cole is visiting a music recording studio for a charity deal. The sound engineer's American partner then accuses him of deleting the track vocal parts and messing things up.
- Shaun Wright-Phillips: Wright-Phillips accidentally gets a waiter fired.
- Peter Crouch: Crouch is offered an investment deal by an Indian businessman whose Russian business partners later barge in and demand money.
- Wayne Rooney: Rooney is visiting a dogs' home with his wife Colleen when a little boy's dog dies.
- David James: James goes to an art gallery and he is accused of breaking a piece of artwork made by a French artist.
- David Beckham: Beckham is picked up by a driver that takes a detour to make him late for his meeting.