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How I Helped Plan the Balloon Boy Hoax

Scheme was a campaign to return to reality TV: researcher

By M. Morris,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 18, 2009 3:12 PM CDT

(Newser) – Balloon boy Falcon Heene's father, Richard, planned the hoax because he wanted to return to reality TV, claims a former research assistant. Heene "was often driven by ego and fame," Robert Thomas says in an interview with Gawker, which the website acknowledges...   Read full story »

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