The Aura of Acorah

Every day, the official Would I Lie to You? YouTube account uploads a new clip from an episode. The above story, in which Henning Wehn relates an incident where he sensed the aura of Derek Acorah in a theatre dressing room, was uploaded today. I immediately realised one very strange thing: This isn't a story that has ever been broadcast before, even in an outtakes show. This upload is the first time it's been seen by anyone outside of the studio audience for that episode.

My first thought was that the channel had started uploading previously unseen footage, which would be very cool indeed. But then my second thought -- after realising that would be a slightly odd thing to do without any sort of fanfare -- was to look up Derek Acorah's Wikipedia page. And that, I think, solved the mystery. The particular episode of WILTY? this clip comes from was recorded on 3 June 2019. It was broadcast on 31 January 2020. Inbetween those two dates, Derek Acorah died on 4 January 2020. This story was therefore probably in some earlier edit of the episode, got hastily switched out when Acorah died, and was still hanging around somewhere and duly got selected for uploading to the YouTube channel. (Had that series not been interrupted partway through for coverage of the 2019 election, it might never have been affected!)