So you spend 12 days on an island off Mexico. On someone elses credit card. They surround you with beautiful people. They give you your 15 minutes (or more) of fame. And then you sue them for all they've got. No justice is there? Three of the contestants on the French Temptation Island have been awarded £20000 each for being made to work. They expected a holiday and instead had to get up in the morning and be filmed. They didn't actually have to do anything, everything (and in some cases really everything) was laid on for them (or simply laid on them), and they knew the show premise before they started. But the television company have been successfully sued and have to pay the contestants as film workers.
But, on the plus side, maybe this will be the end of reality TV.
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Equity are bringing a similar action here against the producers/ BBC of the recent dreadful 'One and Only', as 'contestants' were not paid for their performances and are now demanding their fees - in contrast the 'contestants in 'how do you solve a problem' and 'Any Dream' were actually paid union performance fees each time they performed.
who needs a real job?
see http://www.equity.org.uk/article.aspx?id=55
for more!
Well, I suppose that is reality tv for you - the successful blurring of the lines between real life and entertainment.
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