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Posted: Wed 21/Sep/05 7:59am Post subject: Reality Tv Gets Ugly
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'Extreme Makeover' Contestant Sues ABC
A Conroe, TX woman who was cut from ABC's Extreme Makeover has sued the network and its producers, claiming that they interviewed members of her family who agreed that she "looked like a freak," then cut her from the show the night she was scheduled to undergo extensive plastic surgery that included reconstruction of a deformed jaw. Thirty-year-old Deleese Williams claims in her suit that in a "before" segment taped for the show, she was forced to listen to "horrific, hurtful statements from virtually every member of her family." Afterwards, the suit further claims, her sister was so depressed by the fact that Deleese had heard her remarks that she committed suicide. The suit alleges that Williams was dumped from the show after surgeons determined that it would take too long to repair her deformed jaw. Williams's attorney, Casie Gotro, told the Houston Chronicle that since the taping, Williams has become a "virtual recluse." Noting that reality shows cost little to produce, Gotro remarked that there is also "a human cost associated with this type of television. [Deleese] wants them to know you can't just cast people away like they're nothing."
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Posted: Wed 21/Sep/05 8:06am Post subject:
Interesting, what charges have they filed? What waivers did she sign prior to getting that far?
Personally I dont watch those shows, they make me feel too much like a voyeur on someones private life. If someone chooses to lay their life open to public scrutiny by commercial media, then they should be aware that this can happen.
A sad situation, but seems to me like the American blame game being played.
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Posted: Wed 21/Sep/05 8:16am Post subject:
Twas only a matter of time, a guy who was on The Contender committed suicide not long after losing on the show, but he was a wack job, you have to wonder tho' how good their psych screening is, especially when the wack jobs make for 'good TV'... at the end of the day people need to take responsibility for their own actions and take the consequences, they are volunteers afterall.
but, she had a (very expensive) carrot waved under her nose, the surgery, with the build up, the anticipation, the promise, then at the last minute it was all taken away.
Kind of like you JB and National winning the election.
But yes, wanting to humiliate yourself on international TV is bound to attract a large number of what are clinicaly termed 'whack jobs'.
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Posted: Wed 21/Sep/05 8:20am Post subject:
Dazzle wrote:
but, she had a (very expensive) carrot waved under her nose, the surgery, with the build up, the anticipation, the promise, then at the last minute it was all taken away.
Kind of like you JB and National winning the election.
But yes, wanting to humiliate yourself on international TV is bound to attract a large number of what are clinicaly termed 'whack jobs'.
Lotto ads on telly every week tell me I'm going to be a millionaire this weekend, still haven't bought a ticket
Joined: Jan 28, 2003 Posts: 17,513 Location: Planet Claire
Posted: Wed 21/Sep/05 9:15am Post subject:
Dazzle wrote:
but, she had a (very expensive) carrot waved under her nose, the surgery, with the build up, the anticipation, the promise, then at the last minute it was all taken away.
But yes, wanting to humiliate yourself on international TV is bound to attract a large number of what are clinicaly termed 'whack jobs'.
I reckon this sort of show is often the last resort of people who are already desperate. They put up with the TV show ordeal in order to resolve something that has been plaguing them their whole lives. The TV producers know this and ruthlessly exploit it. It's another form of nrop.
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