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Love, Janessa is an intriguing, heartbreaking, follow-the-scam catfish show produced for the World Service and Canadian public broadcaster CBC. There are elements of Sweet Bobby here, with an online lover – the catfish – pretending to be someone they’re not, and a besotted innocent believing that they’re in a real long-term relationship. But what’s really gripping, and introduced gradually, cleverly, by presenter Hannah Ajala, is that there’s not just one lovelorn victim. Actually, hundreds of people seem to have fallen for a single woman. Janessa Brazil: a real, living person, an actor/internet model.
