LONDON — The face and name may have tricked them, but the voice did not. Singer Adele recently took part in a prank for the BBC, sporting a fake chin and nose and hanging out with Adele impersonators.

Liverpool star Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was left red-faced with an undercover prank on the club's social media channel, after a Reds' supporter refused to buy a shirt with the England international's ...