
The prankster who disrupted BBC’s Wolves vs. Liverpool football coverage with ‘porn noises’ during a live broadcast on Tuesday has explained how he did it.
Gary Lineker’s voice was drowned out by the noises for over 15 awkward minutes before Lineker revealed the culprit, tweeting a picture of what seemed to be a little cell phone hidden in the studio.
‘Well, we found this taped to the back of the set,’ Lineker wrote on Twitter alongside the picture of the device. ‘As sabotage goes it was quite amusing.’
Jarvo69, a YouTuber and prankster, later claimed responsibility for the event, posting a video online of himself phoning a burner phone and making the noises.
And he’s finally revealed what happened.
On Monday, the 30-year-old entered Molineux stadium with a pal, pretending to be a member of a film team and filming phoney interviews, when he placed the phone.
‘These things are all about confidence,’ he told The Sun. ‘We got in because we made it look like we were meant to be there, so no one bats an eyelid.’

He continued: ‘Our plan was to strap it under a chair or the table, but they might’ve got suspicious if we started moving stuff around.
‘So we strapped it to the top of the wall and because of the colour no one could see it.’
He added: ‘Staff didn’t say anything. I was tempted to jump in the home changing room ice bath but didn’t have a towel.
‘I also used the toilet in the away dressing room, which is terrible — it’s like a PE changing room from the 90s. After we planted the phone, we had a beer and got out.’
Jarvo called the phone at 1 a.m. on Tuesday to make sure it hadn’t been located yet, before the true prank began shortly after the BBC’s live coverage began.
Reflecting on the prank, he added to the publication: ‘Those situations are so funny because no one has been in it before. You could see they were panicking but Lineker is such a pro and handled it really well.
‘Everyone seems to have loved it. I feel like we’ve cheered up the nation a bit at a bad time.’
While he appeared red-faced and perplexed at the moment, Lineker has now acknowledged that he was fully aware of what was going on.
Appearing on Newsnight after the game, the former footballer joked: ‘If you’d told me this morning I’d be on Newsnight talking about a porn scandal, I’d have been terrified. Thankfully it was just something that happened in the studio.’
He went on to say that it didn’t take long for him to figure out where the noises were coming from.
‘When it started I did recognise that sound, I think we’ve all been done with that when you open up a Whatsapp or something, or somebody has sent it to you as a trick on the train or when you’re busy in people’s company,’ he said.
‘It was quite difficult to cope with the pre-match build up and I thought maybe it had gone to one of the pundits’ phones, but then I thought no, it’s too loud. Then we obviously worked out it was a prank.
‘It was so loud I couldn’t hear anything from Danny Murphy or Paul Ince, or even when I spoke to Alan Shearer. We had like five minutes more to go, is it going to stop? Every time we went to a VT it stopped, so then I thought it was being done by somebody watching the TV and waiting until we come on.’
The BBC later issued an official apology, with a short statement reading: ‘We apologise to any viewers offended during the live coverage of the football this evening. We are investigating how this happened.’
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