There's one day I'm standing there and I've just sang my two songs and I've moved again. And then suddenly there guy there in a really nice suit. He said, where'd you get these paintings from? I said, oh, I buy and selling them. He went, where'd you get them from? I said, I paint them. Then he went, what? He said, do you actually paint these? I went, yeah. And he said, you know what? We could earn a few bob.

Do you want to go down that road?

I went, well, we're not.

There are not many foragers, but... said, do you actually paint these? I went, yeah. And he said, you know what, we could earn a few

Bob. Do you want to go down that road? I went, well, we're not. There are not many forges,

but we were good. We were turning out five fakes a month. We hit the O'Mell Gallery for 20

grand. I think there's one of my Samuel Palmer's in the Brighton Museum. It's fraud.

Fraud. And I'm a fraudster. Max Brandret is a professional art forger. His entire life, he's made a living by painting exact replicas of paintings by famous artists and then selling them off as if they were the real thing. That's what art forging is. And Max was the best at it. Forgery is a multi-billion

dollar industry and is by far one of the most unique and talented ways to make a living

illegally. We're accustomed to talking to drug traffickers and gangbangers on this show, so we

were surprised and delighted to talk to a man like Max, who chose a more refined hustle,

but one that still sent him back and forth to

prison for the entirety of his career. Max has a book out right now called Britain's number one

art forger, the life of a cheeky faker available on Amazon. You're going to love this guy. They

really don't make him this way anymore. All right, enjoy my sit down with Max Brandret, the art

forger, right here on The Connect with Johnny Mitchell.

He goes to a big house and he go, oh, that painting got, go, it really need to clean that picture.

You need the stretch of redone.

And they'd say, okay, do you think so?

He said, otherwise that canvas is going to rock.

So they'd take it out.

He'd come up and get me to copy it and take the bloody fake back and they suss take it out, he'd come up, and he'd get me to copy it, and they'd take the bloody fake back.

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