So there you go. April Fools Day 2008 been and gone. You can believe what you see on the TV again (unless its Sky News and they have the words breaking news on the screen, in which case it's wise to remember the phrase "never wrong for long.")
But who took the biscuit for best April Fools? Certainly Google sprung a good one, tricking many people into believing it had invented a new search facility which enables you to look at what tomorrow's search results would look like.
The Liverpool Echo, more locally, ran a rather good one about plans to build a bridge from Liverpool to the Isle of Man. Given that it would involve building across 82 miles of water, you'd have thought it would have failed to fool anyone, but it did - not least a reporter working for The Sun.
But the best hoax, TV wise, came from a most unlikely source. Lorraine Kelly's LK programme, which fills the last half hour or so of GMTV.
Not my normal viewing, admittedly, but I'm glad I saw it and (sort of) fell for it. Lorraine introduced viewers to the latest must-have diet treatment which is taking the high street by storm - so-tox.
Cue the introduction of an 18-stone woman from Birmingham, who was a shape which I have never seen before - in fact, that's not true, because she was the same shape as the Honey Monster.
Anyway, she did the usual bemoaning how troughing too much food made her fat, meant she didn't get a boyfriend and make her feel self-conscious at events. She wanted to be the life and soul of the party - which, given her shape, she could have been if she lay down and told everyone she was a bouncy castle.
She was very excited to be trying so-tox, a cream which ran nutrients through the body and helped you lose wait.
Back to Lorraine, who despite her mumsy ways obviously has a wicked streak, who introduced to our diet-fad fatty who in six or eight weeks had lost 10 stone. At this point, my girlfriend twigged it was April Fools. Hilariously, Lorraine brought on a guest to discuss how it was so cheap "they buy in bulk so they pay lower prices for their ingredients" and kept an almost entirely straight face until the very end.
Presumably, the apology is cued up tomorrow for all those big-boned people who logged on to the website to find out more - only to find out no such cure exists, and perhaps not eating as much is the best way to lose weight.
Great fun, and a whole new side to Lorraine Kelly is discovered.
PS: Want to see the top 100 April Fools Hoaxes of all time? Click here
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