For those of you in the UK - this looks very cool. The show is remarkable - they train up imposters for various professions. (This popped up at the http://www.sudburychess.org.uk/ site - I have no idea if it's legit):
FAKING IT’
CHANNEL 4’s BAFTA AWARD WINNING SERIES IS LOOKING FOR MALE CHESS PLAYER (ALL LEVELS)
ARE YOU A 25-35 YEAR OLD MALE CHESS PLAYER?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE TAKEN INTO A NEW AND EXCITING WORLD FOR JUST ONE MONTH?
IF INTERESTED OR WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL JESSICA
ON: 020 7751 7383
OR EMAIL Jessica.versluys@rdfmedia.com
Originally posted by lloydkYou're dead right when you call the show remarkable. I've only seen a few but the best one that I've seen was also the first one I saw - a very well-to-do, lived-a-sheltered-life, female classically trained cellist had to learn how to become a hard house DJ, then perform in some club or other (where the bods inside didn't know anything about it all) competing against 3 other, proper full-time DJs and avoid detection by a group of "experts".
For those of you in the UK - this looks very cool. The show is remarkable - they train up imposters for various professions. (This popped up at the http://www.sudburychess.org.uk/ site - I have no idea if it's legit):
FAKING IT’
...[text shortened]... N: 020 7751 7383
OR EMAIL Jessica.versluys@rdfmedia.com
To begin with she couldn't handle the change in attitude, the music, the noise, the clothes, the everything. She overcame some very deeply grained attitudes and likings and opinions and prejudices of her own to succeed. Have no idea who she is but she has my utmost respect - a very remarkable individual.
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There was a good one where they took a girl from an estate in sheffield (it looked like the worst place on earth) and got her to fake being a toff at a dinner party.
There is another programme like this called, the good the bad and the ugly. They get a couple who are organising an event, say a wedding, to interview 3 different people and choose the one to organise the event for them. One will be a professional who did posh and becks wedding (the good), one would be someone who had tried to organise a similar event in the past and had a complete failure (the bad), and the last one would have no experience what so ever and would just have to fake it (the ugly).
The one I watched this couple turned down the guy who organised posh and becks wedding as they thought he sounded to posh to be the real guy and chose a 20 year old admin clerk - why? As he spoke in a gay accent they just assumed he had to be the wedding organiser!!!
He did his best but it was so funny watching him try and blag it. I thought the highly sprung Greek bride was going to kill him on camera at one point.
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I saw one where they took a gay, upper class twit (wet as a crabs wallet) and trained him to be a bouncer in the East End. There were 3 other new (real) bouncers on the door that night and the head doorman was told that 1 was a fake - he was put in the "definatly a pro - been doin it for years" catagory.
I'd love to be on that show. If only I was a chess player.