Moment of Truth

From Mia Freedman's blog - a segment of the US Fox show called Moment of Truth in which contestants answer frightfully intimate questions truthfully to win $$$.

Link here.

I did some Googling and rumour has it that the show is fake. It does seem suspicious that they just happen to pick only contestants that are filled to the brim with juicy secrets. So either this is fishy business or I'm supposed to believe that the probability of dipping your hand into the population and grabbing a fuck-up is high enough to run a reality show. The notion of the world being chock full of "bad people" doesn't sit well with a 20-year-old. So I'm doubtful about the selection process. But whatever.

Anyway, this woman Lauren Cleri apparently had a choice. I'm not entirely sure how it's supposed to work but it seems safe to assume that choosing not to answer will result in the game ending with however little money she has at the time. Answering truthfully will raise her winnings. If she answers wrongly (according to the lie detector - which raises more suspicions) she loses every cent.

So to cut to the chase, she was asked by her ex-boyfriend "if I wanted to get back together with you, would you leave her husband?" and "do you think I'm the man you should be married to?"; and by the host "have you ever taken off your wedding ring to pretend to be single?" and "have you ever had sexual relations outside of your marriage?". All answers point to divorce.

The poor husband, Frank, sat there and watched it all. If he doesn't dump her trashy NY-hairdresser-assistant-slash-failed-amateur-model ass (yes I've done my research), I think we've found a winner for Most Pussywhipped Man on Earth.

The punchline was that when asked "do you think you're a good person?", Lauren said "yes" and lost the some $20,000 she had already won due to the answer being declared false.

Points and laughs.