In this clip from the British panel show Would I Lie to You?, guest Kimberly – a former Pussycat Doll and dancer – tells a humorous anecdote claiming she used her ability to do the splits to prop open her car’s bonnet at a petrol station so she could add oil after the car broke down. The host repeatedly asks her to demonstrate the splits, jokes about her pregnancy, and expresses disbelief, while the panel debates whether her story is true or a lie. The banter is filled with playful skepticism, repeated questions, and comedic exaggeration, culminating in the host declaring the story a lie despite Kimberly insisting it’s true.
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Good evening and welcome to Would I Lie to You, the show where dishonesty is sometimes the best policy.
Okay, my ability to do the splits proved invaluable when my car broke down.
Nice.
Wow.
To establish the facts, can you do the splits?
Yes, I can.
Well, here's an interesting thing, because may I be the first to say, Kimberly, that you I mean, I'm taking a risk saying it, but are pregnant?
I am pregnant.
Thank God. We wouldn't ask you to do the splits now, obviously.
If you wanted to see the splits—
Not while she's pregnant.
—I can do them.
You could do the splits now even though you're pregnant? Yeah. What are you, some kind of freak?
Let's hold that for a minute. I'm a dancer.
For now, let's assume she can. Hang on, hang on, hang on. The whole nation now wants to see you do splits. You're turning down the chance to see a pregnant Pussycat Doll do the splits. I can't believe it. It's not the whole nation. Whole nation, it's roughly half. That is so uncheeky.
Okay, ready?
Whoa! Kimberly, I'm very happy to tell you it's a boy. OK, let's assume that she can do the splits. She can do the splits. She can do the splits. But the card— Yeah, but let— well, the card doesn't say, I can do the splits, does it? The card says— what does the card say?
My ability to do the splits proved invaluable when my car broke down.
OK, so what happened? Yes.
So I was driving to LA to look for a job as a dancer. And my car started smoking and, like, leaking. So I pulled to the nearest truck stop or— Petrol station. Petrol station.
Petrol station. Petrol station. Petrol station. Petrol station.
Yes. And wanted to fix the car myself. So I intended to lift the bonnet. Good start. Assess the situation and fix it. Right. But the bonnet of the car was really heavy. Can I just check?
Don't you lot call it the hood?
I do, but I've been here, living here for 5 years, so my language is starting to shift.
Or get better, as we call it.
My husband says he's fixing me, yes. So the bonnet is really heavy, and the thing that holds the bonnet up is nowhere to be seen. Oh, dear. Oh, no. I'm in a pickle. So I look— Is your leg about to—
No. Oh, you're not going to tell— No way. Is that where this is leading?
I know I want to put oil in my car, and I need 2 hands. Hands to do it. No, the shop helped me make like a funnel, and I had the other hand with the oil, but I needed to get the bonnet up, so I used my leg.
No, what could you get?
A truck driver? The oil?
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Oh, even better, there was someone helping you with the thing. Why didn't you say, actually, is there any chance you could order? And that's when the little Welsh helper said, no, I think it's better that you do it. I think it'd be better if you did this. So the hood is up, you've got your leg up, what happened then?
Then I was putting oil in my car, in the engine. I heard a couple of guys chuckling. While doing the splits? While doing the splits.
Why didn't you ask the guys to help you?
Well, you know what, Lee, that's exactly what happened. I turned around and I said, "Do you want to help me?" And these two chuckling guys, they weren't the Chuckle Brothers, were they? They may have been. They crossed their arms and said, "Mm-mm." and continued to laugh.
So is there not a world in which you can put everything on the floor, lift the hood up with one hand, take the lid off, get the funnel, put the funnel— Where are you putting the chicken and the fox? Hmm, that's about— you're reaching down a bit, but I suppose it's tricky. But it would definitely be— it would be tricky, but it would be higher up the list than I'll use my foot. So what do you think? Is it the truth? Well, I'm torn here because I wouldn't give it a moment's thought. This is definitely a lie. But she can do it. She can stick her leg in the air quite high. It's a lie. She can do it, but she didn't need to do it. She wouldn't have done it. What I can't believe is that if two old gits won't come and help you, of all people, to do your cart, then America is finished. So I kind of don't believe it, really. I can't believe that two people wouldn't— Because this, this has turned the British public. Up until now, we were quite positive about your country. The special relationship ends. It ends now. So Lee, what's it going to be? So you're both saying a lie. I'll go with my team and say it's got to be a lie. It's a lie. Kimberly, truth or lie? It is true. No way! Yes, it's true. Kimberly did hold her car bonnet open by doing the Splits! Rene Deceuninck.
