{"id":159,"date":"2010-10-04T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/10\/04\/the-perils-of-reality\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T22:19:23","slug":"the-perils-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/10\/04\/the-perils-of-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perils of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little entertainment TV background on this: At the end of September, Joseph Cerniglia, a one time reality TV participant and failed restaurateur committed suicide. The show on which Cerniglia appeared was the US – and terribly tacky – version of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares<\/em>. What gives this non-story its legs is that back in 2007, a former participant in Ramsay’s show Hell’s Kitchen<\/em> also killed herself. Ooh! A trend! Let’s all make that today’s conversation!<\/p>\n

I’ll preface the following with this: It’s a damn shame these unfortunates were so succumb with emotion that they took their own lives. Did their descent into this state have anything to do with Gordon Ramsay or reality TV? Who knows. Is this in anyway Gordon Ramsay or reality TV’s fault?<\/p>\n

In the parlance of chef Ramsay:<\/p>\n

Fuck off out of here.<\/p>\n

This trend<\/em> has however opened the debate. Do reality TV producers select mentally unstable people to be in their shows? Are you joking? How is this even a debate? Of course they do!<\/p>\n

Fuck off out of here.<\/p>\n

You are deluded if you think entering the entertainment business isn’t going to either, at some point, destabilize you mentally or exacerbate a current mental instability. Would you send someone off to work on an off shore oil rig with no training whatsoever? No. So what makes some burger flipper think that they can just waltz into the national spotlight without some expectation of peril?<\/p>\n

Not the same thing?<\/p>\n

Fuck off out of here, it is too. One may have an immediate physical danger but there is no doubt in my mind that prolonged exposure to the emotional business of entertainment can be just as life threatening unless you’re mentally equipped to handle it. On screen performers are trained professionals. They toil and sweat and bleed to get a shot at being in front of that camera. They don’t just fill out an online application and wait for the phone to ring.<\/p>\n

I know it’s a wondrous thing to turn on your TV and all these vibrant sights and sounds come shooting out at you but there are a great many people with varying degrees of serious mental issues making that world look as glossy as it does. If you are not one of them, you’re going to get hurt. Please stay behind the yellow line.<\/p>\n

Fuck off out of here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can’t take the heat? Don’t step into the set kitchen in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}