YouTube video shows Cannes gold Lions are "worthless"

LONDON - Boondoggle, a Dutch agency that won five gold Lions at Cannes this year, has created a short film revealing that the awards are not in fact worth their weight in gold.

YouTube video... fake gold
YouTube video... fake gold

The video, called "5 gold Lions" and posted on YouTube, shows the Lions being inspected by a number of gold specialists who declare that the trophies are not gold but yellow copper and virtually worthless.

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