“Tiger King” star Carole Baskin made an unexpected return to the small screen when she was tricked by two YouTube pranksters pretending to be late-night host Jimmy Fallon.
Josh Pieters and Archie Manners got Baskin, 58, to give a rare interview by pretending she was making a Zoom appearance on “The Tonight Show” — using audio of Fallon asking random questions from previous interviews.
Believing she could not see the host because of technical difficulties, she then revealed how she has been forced to let go of half her staff — and fears the coronavirus may forever end tours at her Florida big-cat sanctuary.
The British tricksters joked about “Baskin in the glory” of their catch in the video seen almost 1.4 million times by Monday morning —