Either that dad is the softer than the cakes I bake in the toilet-oven after a night of gin and juice or he's a flat out liar. If the media was leading me on to say I was behind a "hoax" or that I did this for "show", I'd outright flip if I knew I was right.
It would probably make me look crazy but there's no worst feeling then when you know you're right and someone doesn't believe you, "someone" being the entire world in this case. All he does is fumbles on his answers, doesn't look at the camera and looks like he's thinking three phrases ahead of what he's saying.