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Is 'Joe Millioniare' A Fraud?-Source Says 75% of Contestants Worked in Adult Entertainment Industry
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| February 12, 2003
| Jeanette Walls
Posted on 02/12/2003 12:42:58 PM PST by ewing
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To: Physicist
I think Sarah the bondage star is the runaway winner.
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posted on
02/13/2003 4:30:49 AM PST
by
ewing
To: Stefan Stackhouse
My guess this stuff is 70% planned and 30% 'reality'
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posted on
02/13/2003 4:32:47 AM PST
by
ewing
To: Swordmaker
I guess rent on one of those place would be rerasonalbe with 5 guys living there. But I wouldnt want to have to clean..
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posted on
02/13/2003 4:34:30 AM PST
by
ewing
To: demosthenes the elder
testing the "my comments" thing... something screwy here
To: Swordmaker
the robots from those silly robot war shows.
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posted on
02/18/2003 11:42:41 PM PST
by
demosthenes the elder
(who is the greater fool: the fool or the one who follows the fool?)
To: ewing
Of course it was all a fraud. The whole thing was made up and all the "contestants" were "in on it"!
The only people duped were the viewers....those millions that don't have the intelligence to not watch this drivel.
Seriously, I hope Freepers weren't watching this garbage. It's bad enough my wife started watching "American Idol" this season.
At least those people are judged on their "talent"!
To: Hacksaw
lol...sorry
"Evan" is no construction worker making $19K a year. As John Derbyshire pointed out on NRO, he worked construction for a while and anyone there could make three times that not working very hard.
He's a model and the women are models or internet porn bimbos! lol
To: ewing
Sounds good to me.
To: Hatteras
It's a good thing they're out scouring the hills of Appalachia as we speak looking for the "Real" Beverly Hillbillies...
He's not rich and he is already "sort of" famous (but he's not a fake); maybe they should put him in the cast:
Hasil Adkins
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posted on
02/19/2003 12:17:20 AM PST
by
weegee
To: Fledermaus
I like the American Idol where the contestant are so awful that even the judges cant stand it.
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posted on
02/19/2003 12:19:40 AM PST
by
ewing
To: FourtySeven
That means 65 percent would take the call.
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posted on
02/19/2003 12:29:45 AM PST
by
fatima
(Prayers for all our troops and loved ones.)
To: demosthenes the elder
Re: "Survivor: Final Cut"
It "sort of" has been done.
Battle Royale
This Japanese movie stands little chance of ever being released here even though it is released in other countries (including England).
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posted on
02/19/2003 12:41:51 AM PST
by
weegee
To: ewing
The show was created from an actress casting call:
Joe Millionaire:
Hunter landed on Joe Millionaire after responding to a casting call for actresses who wanted to find romance in an exotic locale. Once there, producers told them Marriott had just inherited $50 million. Hunter says she and some of the other women were suspicious of Marriott's finances all along.
Melissa Jo also rightfully took on the bondage/foot-fetish model for her hypocrisy:
Still, Hunter can take comfort in not being outed as a foot-fetish film star as Sarah Kozer was. "And she had the nerve to call me a name on national TV. Now look who's talking. Some people can be nice to your face and then something else behind closed doors."
I think that the name she was called was "slut" but I may be off. Funny thing is that the later contestants were the ones who at least were implied to have had sex with "Evan"/"Joe". He spoke to someone from the program in episode about bedding women based on a lie (that he has money). It means that we can agree what some of those women were, it's just a matter of determining their price.
Many game shows also have actors turn up as contestants. It's a real contest and they want to win. They have day jobs but generally the type that can allow for time off for film work. The women might have a case of "fraud" (the audience does not) but the contract that the women signed probably does not mention the money.
Its nothing new either. Look at how many "unknown" celebrities turned up as contestants on the Dating Game and similar shows.
There are attempts on some reality shows to script the action and there are also attempts to cast people who shouldn't be around each other so as to stir the pot and create chaos in the programs. Look at MTV's real world. For awhile they were putting genuine psychotic people in the cast.
Albert Brooks took on "reality" programming in the movie Real Life. It ended with the director of the tv documentary burning down the family's home to give it that "Gone With The Wind" sense of drama.
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posted on
02/19/2003 1:16:33 AM PST
by
weegee
To: weegee
Yes, but I think that FOX may have 'stacked the deck' with 75% ringers to insure a more entertaining show.
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posted on
02/19/2003 1:22:54 AM PST
by
ewing
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