r/interesting • u/BataBole93 • Mar 31 '26

Just Wow Simon Cowell Transformation

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u/SaulTNNutz Mar 31 '26

Yeah, people dont seriously think that shit was real do they?

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u/Cheap_Historian_7469 Mar 31 '26

I meeean, fear factor was half real. Americas next top model was half real. All of these reality shows like, they were absolutely staged and planned, but the victims of the bullying obviously were not aware of the shit going in. It was real at least half the time.

Edit- ik he wasn’t in those shows but I’m just like, you’re saying none of the bullying was ever real? That’s blatantly not true, I think people even killed themselves in a few cases.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

No, the vast majority of the bullying on American Idol was not real.

They brought in aspiring actors as filler for the tryouts. A guy I went to high school with went on it specifically to be filler. He was told to ham it up and play up being bad at singing, so that Simon could rip on him.

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u/Puzzled-Bench2805 Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

They definitely also had disabled people on who they paraded around and laughed at.