You're not wrong there (FYI it’s a garlic crusher).
You're not wrong there (FYI it’s a garlic crusher).
The real price of fame
Reality show The Bachelor — admit that you know how it all works — uses a seemingly endless supply of fame-seeking free labour.
Although the stars of The Bachelor makes about $100,000 for appearing on the show, the contestants who arevying for their love make exactly ZERO dollars. From the show itself, anyway.
And, with the exception of the two dresses worn by the last two contestants during the final rose ceremony, all contestants have to arrive with and provide enough camera-ready outfits to last the run of the show in case they make it all the way.
Contestants also have to put their lives on hold for up to 10 weeks, which means no work and therefore no income, and some go into debt pursuing someone who might be the man of their dreams (hopefully).
Former contestant Jillian Harris says she remortgaged her house just so she could afford to appear on The Bachelor and pay for all the spiffy new clothes she’d need for the show.
Don't move the mat, mate.
Bad fiction awards
The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest calls for entrants to “compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels”. This was the winner of the crime category. “The detectives wore booties, body suits, hair nets, masks and gloves and longed for the good old days when they could poke a corpse with the toes of their wingtips if they damn well felt like it.” (Jim Anderson, Flushing, MI)
