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 Posted: 12/29/05 - 11:00 Post subject: Talk about putting the Rock into Rocket Scientist!
This is too funny!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4537748.stm
Three contestants have spoken of their disbelief after being fooled into thinking they went into space for the UK reality show Space Cadets.
The three believed they had blasted off from a cosmonaut training camp in Russia, but were in fact in a fake spaceship in a warehouse in Suffolk.
They cheered up when told they had each won £25,000 ($44,300).
But one contestant, teaching assistant Keri Hasset from Birmingham, said she was "heartbroken" by the prank.
Fake ceremony
"When I thought we were coming back to Earth I was planning my speech. I was going to say it had been my childhood dream. Now I'm a little bit heartbroken," she said.
Ms Hasset, plasterer Paul French, 26 from Bristol, and footballer/recruitment consultant Billy Jackson, 25, from Kent, had suspicions they were being tricked when they had to hold a ceremony for a celebrity Russian dog called Mr Bimby on the spaceship.
"This is a spacecraft but it feels like a caravan," Paul told his fellow astronauts.
"And if we were going to space and they were weighing us for our health, they wouldn't use scales like you get at home, would they?"
On discovering the show was a fake, Billy told Channel 4: "My mum and dad are gonna love this.
"This is the biggest wind-up ever. This is wicked."
"Aw man," said Paul. "We're not astronauts. We're just asses."
The show, presented by Johnny Vaughan, built a full-scale replica of a Russian space training camp in a disused hangar near Ipswich.
The ten original contestants had been whittled down to three over the course of two weeks, with the winners believing they were becoming Britain's first space tourists.
Channel 4 invested millions in the hoax but viewing figures slipped during the series.
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 11:02 Post subject:
How many are blonde?
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wanttorun100
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 11:04 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: | | How many are blonde? |
amazingly none!
think anyone round here would fall for it?
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 11:12 Post subject:
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 11:27 Post subject:
It's a mean trick, but at least they were compensated.
I wouldn't fall for it simply because I am too chicken to want to go up into space. Not no how, not no way, thanks.
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 11:29 Post subject:
I don't know about it being mean or not... that's the chance you take when going on a show....
but i would not go on TV.
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 11:30 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: | I don't know about it being mean or not... that's the chance you take when going on a show....
but i would not go on TV. |
wouldn't the whole GRAVITY thing be a give away?
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brie k
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 11:32 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: | I don't know about it being mean or not... that's the chance you take when going on a show....
but i would not go on TV. |
I'm with you. I don't trust tv shows.
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 11:43 Post subject:
| brie k wrote: | | j1miller wrote: | I don't know about it being mean or not... that's the chance you take when going on a show....
but i would not go on TV. |
I'm with you. I don't trust tv shows. |
(Memo to self: Don't bring up the Brie sitcom pilot with NBC)
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 11:44 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | brie k wrote: | | j1miller wrote: | I don't know about it being mean or not... that's the chance you take when going on a show....
but i would not go on TV. |
I'm with you. I don't trust tv shows. |
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Well, hell. That's Must See TV!!! 
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 11:55 Post subject:
| brie k wrote: | | gretriever wrote: | (Memo to self: Don't bring up the Brie sitcom pilot with NBC)
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Well, hell. That's Must See TV!!! |
It's a project in the works. The only one I have in the cast to date is the smart-assed teenage daughter. I know, I know, darn near every one of the Riff Raff wimmen would qualify. But I settled on Jacked for two key reasons:
1) She meets the height requirement
2) It would require no acting on her part
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 11:58 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | brie k wrote: | | gretriever wrote: | (Memo to self: Don't bring up the Brie sitcom pilot with NBC)
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Well, hell. That's Must See TV!!! |
It's a project in the works. The only one I have in the cast to date is the smart-assed teenage daughter. I know, I know, darn near every one of the Riff Raff wimmen would qualify. But I settled on Jacked for two key reasons:
1) She meets the height requirement
2) It would require no acting on her part
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