Balloon Boy Admits “We Did This For The Show.”

Well, this will teach famewhores not to trust their media hoaxes to a six year-old. Falcon Heene, the Balloon Boy who kept the world’s attention for three hours this afternoon, was on Larry King Live this evening with his family where he said that the reason he didn’t come out when everyone was looking for him and calling his name today was because, “You guys said, um, that we did this for the show.” For some reason, (embarrassment?), Wolf Blitzer ignored his comment and carried on with the charade that this was all Falcon’s doing and not his fucked up parents. Meanwhile, both his parents committed the obvious liar’s tactic of giving way too many details about how Falcon hides when he knows he’s done something bad and how many places they looked for him while he was “missing.”

We’re not at all surprised, but we are surprised that it came out so easily. They should have kept the kid from appearing on camera. But that would be the hardest thing in the world for a famewhore to do.

UPDATE: Here’s more of the Heene family interview with Wolf Blitzer as Wolf follows up with a question about what the hell Falcon was talking about when he said, “Um, you guys said, um, we did this for the show.” Falcon’s father, Richard Heene tries acting incensed to keep from letting Falcon speak again.Wolf, for some reason, continues to play along. Some more cynical media folks have guessed that CNN just knows how to build a story arc. Tomorrow, they say, these people are toast.