I just went to the site and found the part...
Fleiss and company even lied at one point to the studio audience, though it won't be in the series. To keep audience members from booing and hooting the obviously awful performances, a producer announced that the contestants were terminally ill beneficiaries of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. A spokesman for the WB later apologized for the remark but not, regrettably, for the show itself.
Why would they lie about something like that?