Pregnant Tourist Who Claimed To Be Searching For One Night Stand Dad Was A Hoax

Her story was shared across the world but the pregnant French woman who made a video appeal to search for the father of her unborn baby was nothing more than a viral hoax.

Natalie Amyot made an impassioned plea to find the man she slept with just once at a party while in Australia and her story was soon shared by millions who wanted to help.

She claimed she had spent the night with him after a party but lost his number after she flew home to Paris and returned to find him.

But a new video titled ‘I Found Him’ has been released - and the ‘father’ is a marketing guru who concocted the story to put Mooloolaba, on Australia’s sunshine coast, on the map.

Andy Sellar, who owns Sunny Coast Social Media, appears in the follow-up video declaring that the whole thing was his idea and that Amyot was just an actress.

He says in the clip: “This has been a viral video for Holiday Mooloolaba.

“My name is Andy Sellar and I own a company called Sunny Coast social media.

"We do viral videos for businesses.

“Now I know there is going to be a lot of you that are upset by this… maybe not too happy.

"But this young lady was just a volunteer in this.

I did all the Facebook, the YouTube, I did all the answering.

“She had nothing to do with that, she literally was just an actress.”

In fact, Natalie Amyot is marketing student Alizee Michel, according to Daily Mail Australia - and she has a long-term boyfriend.

Mr Sellar’s comments came as Ms Michel was faced with a barrage of abuse on social media - even before the hoax was confirmed.

She wrote on Facebook: "If you don’t want to help or are rude please just go back to you lives and don’t judge me [sic].

"I said if he isn’t interested ill go home and that is it….can i not try though? why is that so bad?”

Revealing why he filmed the hoax video, Mr Sellar added: "We just wanted to put Mooloolaba on the map because it’s a wonderful place.

“So thank you for watching and we are going to do many, many more videos like this.”