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This returning series about US sports stars opens with a jaw-dropping story. American university football player Manti TE’O was the star of his team in 2012 when he dedicated a victory to his girlfriend who’d died of leukaemia on the same night his grandmother passed away. But then a newspaper was tipped off that the Hawaiian player’s girlfriend had never existed. The story got ever crazier when it emerged he was the victim of a hoax by a trans woman called Ronaiah ‘Naya’ Tuiasosopo – and this compelling account of the bizarre scenario includes interviews with both Manti and Naya. Weekly, from Tuesday