Did The Loop use Ten Network staff to fake its awkward new year audience countdown? (Yes)
The plot thickens on The Loop’s New Year’s Eve countdown audience mutiny.
As regular readers may recall, there were curious going-on during Eleven’s end of year countdown. Never has an audience of “competition winners” seemed so uninterested.
A YouTube video of those awkward final moments of 2016 is currently the number one trending video on the platform in Australia, having clocked up more than half a million views in the last 48 hours – which will be far, far larger a number than the show itself will ever have previously achieved.
And the blonde behind Paul is Chelsea Manzer, one of the network’s publicists…
If it was real, how embarrassing.
If it was faked, how embarrassing.
Confirmed
http://www.news.com.au/enterta.....bc3099c37e
It is PLAINLY OBVIOUS that this is staged and that the ‘joke’ fell very flat. Why is anyone even thinking anything otherwise??
Thanks Adam – duly updated.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Great work. This is EVERYWHERE.
Even competitions website lottos.com.au members asked the same question. After all, compers don’t want to miss an entry in a real competition:
http://www.lottos.com.au/compe.....tid=453485
Oh thank goodness. I must admit I was stunned when it made news that anyone thought for even a second it was anything other than a put on.
I mean seriously.
Surely the IQ can’t have dropped that much in Australia
I have to say I am horrified at how much traction this has received. How could anyone have believed at any stage that it was real? How could MUMBRELLA have wondered if it was real, being in the industry and knowing everything that Mumbrella knows? The ‘competition winners’ were so over-the-top exaggerated in their supposed disgruntlement that there was no way it could have been real. The way they chucked their streamers down and walked off. Maybe if they had reined it in it could have been believable. Maybe. Then there was the old dude with the Pom poms! If stunts like this can still go viral and fool so many people, no wonder fake news is winning the day. I just lost a little faith in humanity.
I should say I think the stunt itself is harmless and kinda funny — it’s more like a skit. It is the way so many people thought it could be real that is the travesty. A reflection on the supreme gullibility of the audience, not a problem with the program.
This was trending like crazy – massive props to Tweedie and The Loop for generating a fair amount of interest in an otherwise dull media event (New Year’s).
FULL DISCLOSURE: Scott bought me a beer once, but considering how many I bought him, I reckon he still owes me a few shouts..
i doubt any media thought it was real, they just needed something to publish
As an ex ten employee can confirm it’s 100% staff
I don’t know if it’s sad that we thought it could be genuine, after all its channel ten and there should be some level of integrity and honesty from a major broadcaster (lol).
But as others said… The joke fell flat.
The hosts are acting like they punked us, I didn’t watch it live, I watched the clip, thought to myself “G re tv eez.. This is odd.” and moved on.
This is what tv has been reduced to, and this is why we are turning off.