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Title: Make sure you know what you are getting U.K.
Post by: guar on October 31, 2003, 06:27:01 AM

:shocked:  Transsexual Surprise Holds Up UK TV Show
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LONDON (Reuters) - A reality TV game show that tricks a group of men into winning the affections of a beautiful "woman" who is actually a man -- what could go wrong?

   

British pay-TV company BSkyB and independent producer Brighter Pictures are facing a threatened lawsuit from six contestants on the show, "There\'s Something About Miriam," who are trying to prevent the program from being broadcast. The contestants are challenging the consent forms they signed before discovering that Miriam, a male pre-operative transsexual, was not all that she seemed.


"There is no transmission date fixed at present," said a spokesman for BSkyB. "We have received a letter of complaint."


In a recruitment advertisement for the show, whose working title was "Find Me a Man," Brighter Pictures offered "the adventure of a lifetime" with a 10,000 pound ($16,940) prize to men aged 20 to 35 who "want it all" and are "fit and up for everything."


Reality shows increasingly rely on duping their contestants. The show "Joe Millionaire" depicted a group of young women who thought they were wooing a millionaire who was in fact a construction worker. Another U.S. show, "Boy Meets Boy," featured a man courted by other men only to discover that some of his suitors are heterosexual.


Brighter Pictures is a unit of the production company Endemol, which created such reality shows as "Big Brother" and "Fear Factor." A spokesman for the company declined to comment. ($1=.5904 Pound)

Title: Make sure you know what you are getting U.K.
Post by: GmanJoe on October 31, 2003, 06:32:46 AM

Bamboozled and hood-winked by a tranny! :eek:

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Post by: videoholic on October 31, 2003, 07:13:38 AM

That is just wrong....  Bleck....

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Post by: Kurt Angle on October 31, 2003, 12:59:16 PM

I will be suing them, don\'t you worry.;)

*hums the tune to the crying game*

Title: Make sure you know what you are getting U.K.
Post by: (e) on October 31, 2003, 06:27:29 PM

:lauging:

Ahh, its great they are taking after america. :D

Title: Make sure you know what you are getting U.K.
Post by: theomen on October 31, 2003, 09:19:25 PM

Hmm... me thinks ooseven in a dress is behind this

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Post by: kopking on November 01, 2003, 11:16:24 AM

ha ha ha, i read about it the other day, made me laugh

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Post by: Halberto on November 02, 2003, 10:09:17 AM

That, or ooseven thought he was going to marry the shemale.


where is he anyway?

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Post by: Titan on November 02, 2003, 03:42:06 PM

These reality TV shows are getting out of hand. Not only do they suck but they are extremely over done.

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Post by: theomen on November 02, 2003, 10:42:04 PM

Blasphamy!

*returns to watching who "Joe, I don\'t have Herpes"

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Post by: ##RaCeR## on November 03, 2003, 12:38:14 AM

Speaking of reality tv, am I the only one that thinks the Bachelorette chick is fiesty? She looks like my mother.

Title: Make sure you know what you are getting U.K.
Post by: (e) on November 03, 2003, 04:53:17 PM

Hmmm, fiesty eh?

Has she lost her teeth yet?

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Post by: ##RaCeR## on November 03, 2003, 07:22:49 PM

BTW my title to this thread was so much better...