...well, not exactly but you might want to check out this story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/14/starsuckers-tabloids-hoax-celebrities

If you can't be arsed to read it - basically a group of people invented a selection of ridiculous stories about celebs, then posed as members of the public and sold them to the tabloids. Who duly printed them. All of them.

Makes you think dunnit?