An Egyptian television programme had actress Heba Magdi in tears and fearing for her life as fake 'terrorists' tormented her in a prank.

IN what could be the cruellest prank on television ever, Egyptian TV jokers dressed up as ISIS extremists and tricked an actress into thinking she had been kidnapped.

Shocking footage shows the pranksters cornering the woman, Heba Magdi, with fake weapons in a house.

According to The Sun, the men, who wore balaclavas, tried to force the woman to beg for her life.

They held up an ISIS flag behind the sobbing woman, who was clearly terrified.

The cringe-worthy scene was recorded with a hidden camera in the would-be kidnappers’ house.

The actress was seen sitting at a kitchen table, surrounded by the fake extremists.

She openly sobbed into her hands as one “jihadi” pulled a gun on her.

But as the situation escalated, the terrified actress held a chair in front of her face and cowered under the table.

Another would-be jihadi entered the room with a fake suicide vest and attempted to put it on Magdi.

The video showed the actress running away from the man and cowering again before she was once again cornered by the pranksters.

The actress became even more terrified when staged gunfire was let off in the room, according to AhlulBayt News Agency.

Magdi begged for her life amid the chaos in the room.

After a while, one of the men explained to the actress that she had been the target of a prank.

Magdi is a popular Egyptian actress with 2.3m followers on Instagram and more than two million likes on Facebook.