A man pretending to be Britain’s Prince Harry for a new reality television series admits the constant lying is "draining".
Matt Hicks, from Exeter in south west England, poses as the flame-haired royal for ‘I Wanna Marry Harry’ – a fake dating show which sees 12 American girls vying for his attention – and although he admits it was great fun, he did find it hard to keep up the pretence.
He said: "I hadn’t though about all of the deceiving and the lying and how I’d feel about that. It was all a bit of fun, but after the process went on, that got a bit draining.
"The mental side of having to remember every single detail about Harry every time I opened my mouth to talk to the girls."
Matt was given a crash course in all things Prince Harry – including his military career, schooling, friends, exes and hobbies – before taking part in the show, but he claims he did manage to inject his own personality into the "role".
He told TVGuide.com: "I tried to put as much of me into it as possible, so when they asked about my traveling I spoke about the traveling that I’ve done because I assumed they wouldn’t know any different.
"I wasn’t necessarily opening up, but they were opening up to me by the end. And the girls at the end were obviously ones I liked more."
Despite admitting to feeling slightly guilty, he added: "At the end of they day, everyone signed up for a reality TV show. It’s all a bit of fun."
Fake Prince Harry found pretence ‘draining’
