Nine Women Rescued From Fake Reality Show - Like Big Brother

From our "Why Didn't I Think of That?" files? A group of nine Turkish women were rescued this week from a compound where they had been keep for two months thinking they were filming a reality TV show. Hah!

Nine young women tricked into joining a fake reality show and kept isolated for two months were rescued by the gendarmerie Tuesday. The women, some as young as 16, were kept confined in a villa in the Beykoz district of Istanbul and videos of them in the house were sold over the Internet.

According to reports, the organizers of the fake show placed advertisements in newspapers that called for “contestants to compete in a reality show akin to ‘Big Brother’ that will be broadcast on FX TV” and interviewed dozens of would-be contenders.

Nine were told they were chosen and made to sign a contract that stipulated that if any of the participants left before two months were up, they would have to pay a fine of 50,000 Turkish Liras. The young women were also told they would have no contact with the outside world, including their families, for the two-month period. Dreaming of becoming television stars, they accepted all the preconditions.

SOURCE: Girls rescued from fake 'Big Brother' - Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review