Has anyone seen this show and is it for real?

[Uabassoon]

I looked around on google and I don't see anything about the audience being told that they were from make a wish foundation. Just that the audience was in on the joke. After reading a few articles it seems like a majority of the contestants didn't mind being fooled, they are happy with all the publicity. I mean isn't that what all the people do on reality shows anyway? They just agree to go on them because they want attention.

[Uabassoon]

Yes, I'm really bored. But I did find an article where it said they were from the make a wish foundation.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr..._id=1000513131

[sirrahbed]

Originally posted by Uabassoon
After reading a few articles it seems like a majority of the contestants didn't mind being fooled, they are happy with all the publicity. I mean isn't that what all the people do on reality shows anyway? They just agree to go on them because they want attention.

I am glad to read that the people at least know what they are in for. I am SO out of it - have never even watched a reality show - don't even watch TV except News and Animal Planet (I know, I am a geek) Actually, I think I am GLAD I am a geek Geek is GOOD.

[bluekat]

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?