Kyle and Jackie O pranked live on air 2

Kyle & Jackie O pranked live on air as heard by the listeners of 94.7FM, South Africa.

Story By Wade O'Leary, ninemsn

A South African disc jockey has pulled off one of the all-time great practical jokes this morning after tricking a top-rating breakfast radio duo into taking a fake call from Tom Cruise.

2Day FM spent $150,000 promoting an exclusive Cruise interview over the Australia Day long weekend and encouraged listeners to text questions to be asked of the superstar.

An elaborate audio segment preceded the much-hyped call but, instead of Cruise's trademark growl, Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O were met with a South African-accented voice that told them they had been pranked.

Darren "Whackhead" Simpson enacted the elaborate hoax after hearing that Kyle had mocked him during a broadcast in November.

"I got a whole bunch of emails from South Africans who live in Sydney these days and they said that Kyle played one of my pranks on the radio and then made fun of me," Simpson told ninemsn from Johannesburg.

"I don't know what was actually said but I knew that he didn't say very nice things, so I decided to slowly plot a plan to get back at him."

Simpson began a two-month program of research and planning by checking who the 2Day FM duo had and hadn't interviewed over the years, eventually determining that Cruise was the most attractive celebrity not yet in their resume.

He then used Cruise's new film Valkyrie as an excuse to offer a promotional interview.

"I've got a few friends who are very good with computers so they set up an authentic looking United Artists email in the name of the guy who is actually the film studio's marketing executive," he said.

"E-mails went back and forth setting the interview up: they asked for a pre-record and I said no, Tom only does live interviews.

"Then they asked if they could interview him face-to-face when they got to LA because apparently they're heading over there soon, so we said no but offered to get them into a party he was hosting instead.

"They threw me a few curveballs and it was tough reeling them in, but I got them in the end."

After the show, Sandilands who is also one of the judges on Australian Idol - admitted Simpson had gotten them good.

"We ran some stuff about s***** gotcha calls and he was amongst them, so I guess he was a bit upset about that," he said.

"He did really well to get on air but we were a bit disappointed that he didn't do anything once he was on there: we would have had an impersonator lined up and everything.

"But he was very clever to get that far only a radio person could do that.

"Jackie really wants to get back at him I reckon she'll chip away at it for months but I'm trying to organise a trip to the Oscars."

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[juve98]

jACKIE Id LOVE TO BEND YOU OVER AND GIVE YOU THE BIGGEST DOGGY OF YOUR LIFE , as for you Kyle...... Id love to beat you to a pulp you pretender. You sure have pulled the wool over Austeros eyes , they pay you a shit load of money for being yourself..... a talentless idiot

[lovett1993]

haha kyle is a fat wanker .... and that south african is a champ .... go fuc urself kyle and jackie o

[82snowball]

Kyle and jackie took it so well,... All good fun 

[koreill0]

I agree with KrumpetNylon this prank was a fail if they were trying to back at Kyle and Jackie O.

[halflifeproductionz]

i love kyle's persona and how people hate that fat prick. go kyle for being your worthless self!

[wogacelli]

Kyle and Jackie O deserve every bit of bad that happens to them. Fucking pathetic paracites the both of them.

[TheCusterCat]

Kyle is a fat turd and as ugly as a hatfull of arseholes. I would love to smash his ugly fat face in with a baseball bat

[2smoothbra]

kyle is fat

[sutho1975]

is kyle still alive...id thought hed eaten a whole chicken and died.

[Babe0492]

Kyle and Jackie O were so calm in this, I would have been rather pissed.