Beyonce's 'off-key, screeching vocals' tape a fake (+video)

Beyonce sounds anything but Fierece in a fake tape of her singing 'off-key'. Photo / AP

UPDATED:

An audio recording of hitmaker

Beyonce

screeching her way through an off-key version of

If I Were a Boy

is making the rounds on the interwebnet. And it's bad. Actually, it's atrocious. Anyone who's listened to it will tell you it's just too ridiculous to be true - and they'd be right. The tape has been exposed as a fake.

Rewind...

Shock jock

Howard Stern

aired the tape on his Sirius radio show this week and claimed it was a leaked, unedited sound board recording of the singing sensation (aka

Sasha Fierce

) making a right dog's dinner of her hit

If I Were a Boy

on the

Today Show

in November.

The fable goes that Knowles reportedly sang live to a pre-recorded track on the TV show. But while the audience enjoyed a pitch-perfect version of the tune, the folk behind the scenes were supposedly subjected to an ear-bashing.

The end result is a painful experience indeed.

Have a listen.

Video: Beyonce's 'off-key' audio (hoax)

But now the unnamed prankster behind the leaked 'board mix' audio has revealed that the tape is a big, fat fake.

"Yes I created them they are fake," he tells E! News.

And he tells

OK!

magazine: "It's a little bit crazy.

"No one in their right mind would sound like that, and no one would cheer for someone singing like that."

Hear hear. Our sentiments exactly.

Knowles' father has also dismissed the audio as a fake, insisting that it's been digitally altered to make his daughter sound like a trainwreck.

"If no one took the time to look at the biggest Inauguration in the history of America then shame on them," he said.

"If no one took the time to listen to Beyonce sing

America the Beautiful

and

At Last

at the Neighborhood Ball for the first dance of

President Obama

and the

First Lady

, and they question Beyonce's vocal ability, they've gotta be an idiot.

"At 12 years into her career, the last thing someone should be questioning is her vocal ability."

Of the dodgy 'recording', the lady with the leather-lunged delivery had this to say:

"Of course I'm just hearing about this today - and I haven't heard it but it sounds completely ridiculous.

"Everyone's heard me sing and it's perfect timing, actually, because I'll be on the Today show tomorrow singing 'Halo,' or tonight you can watch me sing live on

David Letterman

!" she told MTV News. "It's perfect promotion, whoever came up with that idea."

We didn't believe any of it for a second. Honest.

Jennifer Hudson pregnant?

We won't beat around the bush with this one. There's a rumour doing the rounds that

Jennifer hudson

is pregnant with her first child.

Despite denials from her reps to the contrary, two unverified sources claim to

Essence magazine

that the Oscar and Grammy winner is definitely in a delicate state.

Stay tuned...

Video: Billy Bob Thornton talks about that radio interview

The petulant old goat tries to explain why he

behaved like a tool

on a Canadian (as in definitely not American) radio show earlier this month.

We don't buy it. Try harder.

Knickers, Tom

OAP crooner and knicker-magnet

Tom Jones

still has a way with the ladies.

Welshman Jones, 68, was performing on stage in Florida recently and was

showered with some frillies

But the wanton catapulting of undergarments had little effect on the singer, as he warbled his way nonchalantly through tracks from his new album,

24 hours

.

Jones is obviously over the knicker-twanging. He revealed in 2005 that he's fed up with the ritual and ducking and diving from flying panties which, quite frankly, ruin the mood when he's belting out a power ballad.

"I want it to end now because it has lost all its meaning," he told

The Sun

at the time.

"If I'm doing a ballad and trying to create a mood, then undies appear from nowhere and then it's a problem," he said.

"Some people in the audience want to be seen. They run to the front of the stage and it's like, 'Look at me! I've got the underwear!'"

It was all highly amusing...like 40 years ago.

"When it started it was very sexy. A woman actually took her underwear off and threw it at me on stage. Nobody had ever done that before.

"It was very daring and very sexy. Then it became a joke," he said.

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Pictured: Beyonce. She definitely can sing. Photo / AP