Recognize These Celebrities? That's the Point

In this age of camera cell phones, viral video and paparazzi, it's nearly impossible for a celebrity to go unnoticed.

Kim Kardashian and Nick Lachey donned prosthetics and wigs to go undercover and see if they could fool their fans for a new E! Entertainment special called "Secret Celebrity."

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That is until television's "Secret Celebrity." The E! Entertainment special, which aired last week and re-airs tomorrow night on E!, put professional prosthetics on Hollywood socialite Kim Kardashian and pop star Nick Lachey, and fooled even their biggest fans.

"When you have such big celebrities, they are always being pandered to by their fans," Nick James, manager of development for E! studios and one of the show's executive producers, told ABCNews.com. "They wanted chance to see what their fans really think of them."

So Kardashian, with the help of award-winning Hollywood makeup artist Matthew Mungle, put aside her famous good looks and was transformed into homely Cynthia.

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"This was a real process ... I needed to get a molding of my face so I could have a prosthetic nose, cheeks, and neck put on!" Kardashian later wrote on her blog. "I look like a completely different person!"

With a prosthetic face, a curly wig, glasses and fake teeth, Kardashian sat next to three of her biggest fans who believed they were waiting to meet the reality star.

Meanwhile, an actress playing Kardashian's assistant tests the women to see how loyal they are to the star by trying to get them to take items from a girl basket sent to Kardashian. They turn her down, and when a fake tabloid reporter turns up offering them money for dirt on Kardashian, they refuse.

None of the women seemed to guess that Kardashian was sitting right there among them.

"They were completely clueless. When she takes off her teeth and wig, there are looks of shock," Beth Greenwald, vice president of development for E!, told ABCNews.com. "Jaws hit the floor."

If Greenwald and James were concerned before about whether they could pull off the stunt, Kardashian's own sister Kourtney convinced them when she walked into Kardashian's house where they were shooting.