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ABC Television: Murderers of Popular Culture – AND PEOPLE!

September 18th, 2005 at 11:00 pm by Preston Taylor Holmes

What’s it like to have blood on your hands, ABC? Ugly blood.

Extreme Makeover candidate sues ABC for not following through with her massive reconstructive surgery. The ugly duckling had to remain the ugly duckling and it cost her sister her life.

LOS ANGELES – The producers of “Extreme Makeover” promised Deleese Williams “a Cinderella-like” fix for a deformed jaw, crooked teeth, droopy eyes and tiny boobs that would “transform her life and destiny.”

But when the ABC reality show dumped the Texas mom the night before the life-changing plastic surgeries, it shattered her family’s dream and triggered her sister Kellie McGee’s suicide, says a bombshell lawsuit filed in L.A. Superior Court.

How did this result in the suicide of the sister, you may ask? Apparently, during the process leading up to the show, the sister was forced to say bad, awful things about her dogfaced sister/t.v. show candidate and she was very hurt with that. In fact, there was speculation that bad, awful things were said about Deleese and she fell down the stairs and her shoes fell off [/SolRosenbergAccent].

As part of the premakeover hype, producers coaxed McGee and other family members to trash Williams’ looks on videotape, the suit alleges. When they suddenly pulled the plug on the project, and the promised “Hollywood smile like Cindy Crawford,” a guilt-ridden McGee fell apart.

“Kellie could not live with the fact that she had said horrible things that hurt her sister. She fell to pieces. Four months later, she ended her life with an overdose of pills, alcohol and cocaine,” said Wesley Cordova, a lawyer for Williams.

“This family is shredded. There is a human cost to this,” Cordova said.

It is not known whether or not ABC executives provided McGee with the pills, alcohol or cocaine, but officials haven’t ruled it out at this point.

As with many tragic stories like this one, there is usually a silver lining. In the case of this story, the silver lining would be that Williams’ mother-in-law was finally able to let her true feelings flow, undoubtedly lifting a heavy burden from her chest.

To please the producers, Williams’ mother-in-law also laid it on thick. “She said things like ‘I never believed my son would marry such an ugly woman.’ ” Cordova says.

It’s never good to have family secrets. I’m sure the family is better off now that everything is out in the open.

Oh well, that’s showbiz!


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3 Responses to “ABC Television: Murderers of Popular Culture – AND PEOPLE!”

  1. NIF Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 8:15 am

    ARGH!

    Today’s dose of NIF – News, Interesting & Funny … Talk Like a Pirate Day edition, ARGH!

  2. reverse_vampyr Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 5:22 pm

    Thanks for the milk shooting out my nose when you did the Sol Rosenburg “shoes fell off” remark.

  3. MajorDad1984 Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 7:29 pm

    I read this story today…and knew that I’d have to be blogging about it.

    Unfortunately I find entertainment in reality television and the Dr. Laura radio show…it makes me feel good about myself…that I’m not as warped and screwed up as others.

    Sad to hear that a human being committed suicide, but from the sound of things, it would have happened sooner or later. Sounds like the family just has a handy excuse to sue someone with deep pockets. Can’t imagine they’ll get a dime. Who’s next in line for Dante’s suicide circle of hell? :evil:

    See you on the high ground.

    MajorDad1984

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