Extreme Makeover Lawsuit

[videoholic]

Holy cow.   Pretty darn cold.

 \'Extreme Makeover\' sued for suicide of canceled candidate\'s sister

UPI News Service, 09/18/2005

A Los Angeles lawsuit claims producers of ABC\'s "Extreme Makeover" dumped a makeover candidate at the last minute and shattered her Texas family.

The 31-page lawsuit filed in Los Angeles claims "Extreme Makeover" promised a "Cinderella-like fix" for Deleese Williams\' deformed jaw, crooked teeth, droopy eyes and small chest that would "transform her life and destiny," the New York Daily News reported Sunday.

Williams\' pending makeover was announced on air Jan. 7, 2004. Producers then coaxed family members to say mean things about her looks on videotape, while she sat in earshot of it all, the suit alleges.

"Extreme Makeover" flew her from Texas to Los Angeles and as she sat in her hotel room reading pre-op instructions for the next morning, a producer showed up and told her she was being dropped because her recovery time would take too long, Williams\' attorney, Wesley Cordova, told the Daily News.

Her sister, Kellie McGee, "fell to pieces" over the mean things she said about her sister and killed herself four months later, Cordova said.

Williams, 30, and her husband, Mike, are now raising McGee\'s two children, along with their own two children. The suit seeks unspecified damages.

ABC has declined to comment on the allegations, the Daily News said.

[Titan]

Yikes. That TV show sucked anyway. They were asking for trouble when they decided to do a show lik ethat.

[Paul2]

whoa.  That\'s sad.  The family including her sister were coaxed to say mean things to her.  Then the sister felt bad and killed herself because of the mean things she said to her sister?

Originally posted by Paul2
whoa.  That\'s sad.  The family including her sister were coaxed to say mean things to her.  Then the sister felt bad and killed herself because of the mean things she said to her sister?

Yeah, if true. People will do anything for money. It still sucks though if they really cancelled her like that.

[Paul2]

Yeah, if its true.

I find that quite sad as if the sister felt guilty.  Maybe she gone into severe depression and the guilt she had had make her took her life.  That sounds like as if the other sister didn\'t recover well from the makeover surgeries and probably this had make this sister killed herself.

[CHIZZY]

reality show producers are human filth and liars. I don\'t know if you guys remember this:

http://www.psx2central.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=30596&highlight=chizzy+london

Well, my former bass player went (cos he banged her too...) and said it was a total set up. They were lying 100% about the show, they wanted to see her hubby get all worked up over her ex\'s... glad I wasn\'t involved.

Reality shows should be banned from the face of the earth.

There is nothing.... NOTHING more worthless than reality TV.

[videoholic]

Actually there is nothing worth more than reality tv.  Unless of course you aren\'t interested in money.

Reality Shows: Lets turn people into embarassed animals

[Jumpman]

i like reality shows with hot ladies...that is all

Hot ladies you like.Reality show not

I hate reality shows too. But someone somewhere must be watching this crap because otherwise it wouldn\'t be so damn popular. I just keep hoping it\'s a fad that\'ll go away (like safe sex).