The word "faking" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used as a verb to describe when someone is pretending to feel or act a certain way, or when they are producing something that is not real or authentic. For example: "I suspected he was faking it when I saw him smiling, even though he was clearly upset about something."
Someone else will be faking a feud with Sharon Osbourne, or comparing black contestants to Lenny Henry, or just grinning inanely into space like some sort of bussed-in competition winner.
Meanwhile, it's a bit rich of George to take the moral high ground over his dad faking his own death, given that he effectively did the same himself, vanishing for three years and wrecking his parents' marriage in the process.
The cover of the heavy rock band UFO's 1974 album Phenomenon features a hand-tinted image of a suburban couple apparently faking a UFO sighting, and manages to be both camp and inexplicably unsettling.
It may be because Labour is faking outrage over a reckless attempt at humour on her website.
Only one interpretation was possible: they were even faking that.
I'm not saying that faking it in public is the key to marital success, but if you get this front-of-house stuff wrong, it will eventually have an impact on your actual relationship.
RT has suggested that he's faking his (very strong) eastern European accent to give his channel an exotic allure.
One recent study even suggests that many of those men actually may have been faking working 80 hours a week.
While Karma uses her newfound popularity to pursue an affair with Liam, their frequent for-show kisses suggest to Amy that maybe she is not faking it, after all.
But unlike Laws, who can still rub along with his departmental boss in private, no one thinks the Lib Dem leader is faking the fury that descends whenever Gove's name crops up.
