After an awkward interview between the hosts of Radio Énergie 94.3’s “It’s Coming Back to the Station” and the group’s singer-bassist Gene Simmons sparked a backlash on social media, it was actually just a hoax. .
It’s the sprinkler that got sprinkled. Since the Montreal radio show’s hosts are seasoned pranksters, the station’s bosses decided to play a nasty prank on them.
“You pranksters are on the phone with listeners across Quebec. Well, your three bosses here caught you on April 1,” revealed Chloé Boissonneault, general manager of French-language radio stations in Quebec at Bell Media on Thursday afternoon.
On Wednesday afternoon, Marie-Claude Savard, Mario Tessier and Sébastien Trudel interviewed the man they believed to be rock legend Gene Simmons. The interview quickly turned sour when the “singer” would not have liked to translate his statements live. After only a few minutes he hung up with “Fuck this!”.
The interview quickly made the rounds on social media, so much so that the real Gene Simmons had to set the record straight.
“Hello friends. Just a friendly note. There is a French interview that is said to have been conducted by me in Canada. It’s clearly not me. And by the way I don’t speak French,” he wrote on Twitter early Thursday afternoon.
Hello friends. Just a friendly note here. There is a French speaking interview that I claim was conducted from Canada. I am clearly not. By the way, I don’t actually speak French. 🤟😎
— Gene Simmons (@genesimmons) March 30, 2023
The radio station executives will also have increased the tension to the max when they entered the studio to lecture the presenters live.
“Bell Media will not take action against you. There will be no ban. There will also be no penalty. But I want to tell you that … we had you well,” Chloé Boissonneault finally said.
But who was it in that famous interview? It was none other than Jason Rockman, radio host on CHOM 97.7. The scammer also took pleasure in criticizing the three animators on his social networks.