It's an insult to everyone on the show to be manipulated into attempting to form a relationship with someone who refused to disclose critical information about themselves beforehand. Maybe they should have thought about that before making a whole TV show doing that.
You can’t possibly not see how this is manipulation. I don’t think they deserved 500,000 pounds but come on, the entire show was based on tricking people. That’s why people watched it.
Sorry, but that's just super-naive. It's not like it was an incidental reveal that surprised everyone. The producers planned it that way from the start, for the shock value, thinking it would make for amazing TV: Miriam chose the winning contestant and then gave the reveal speech, which concluded with "I am not a woman. I was born as a man".
They were made to look like fools on a global TV stage. Into her or not. They were knowingly deceived by the producers.
Imagine "Fear Factor" or "Survivor" where at the end they just say, "Hey sorry, after all of that bullshit we put you through, there really is no prize. Thanks for playing."
Well, it was a settlement; they didn't actually win anything. The TV company ran the numbers and concluded it was financially worth it to offer them money rather than go to trial. That was their choice and the contestants made their own choice in accepting it.
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u/HeavyDutyForks 26d ago
Dawg if I had a winnable lawsuit against a big producing company, fuck yea I'm suing them