The moment Miriam Rivera told contestants she was a transgender woman on Sky's 'cruel' reality show - and they went on a rampage

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This is the moment that Sky's cruel dating show （機の）カム 衝突，墜落ing 負かす／撃墜する as six male contestants were told they'd 内密に been dating a transgender woman for weeks.?

The 2003 Sky1 British reality series 'There's Something About Miriam' flew the boys out to a 高級な four-星／主役にする 郊外住宅 in Ibiza, with the 目的（とする） of 支持を得ようと努めるing the 素晴らしい Mexican model Miriam Rivera, then only 21, for a £10,000 prize and romantic ヨット trip.?

Yet the punchline of the show was an incredibly cruel one. After Miriam chose her 勝利者, she told the unsuspecting contestants that she was a transgender woman?who had not undergone gender-断言するing 外科.?

New Channel 4?series Miriam: Death Of A Reality 星／主役にする 調査するs the consequences of the 生産者s' 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 偉業／利用する the boys, and Miriam's 身元, for shock value.?

The second episode of the show, 肩書を与えるd 'The Truth', 空気／公表するs on Tuesday night and shows the moment the 生産者s had been waiting for - when 勝利者 Tom Rooke was finally told the truth.?

This is the moment Tom Rooke, the 勝利者 of the There's Something About Miriam, was told she was 現実に transgender

Miriam Rivera, then just 21, was only 許すd to 明らかにする／漏らす her 身元 after the 勝利者 was chosen

But the na?ve 生産者s had underestimated the sheer 怒り／怒る of the boys when they realised they'd been lied to and the emotional 損失 it would go on to 原因（となる）.?

After choosing Tom, then 23, as her 勝利者, Miriam told the boys: 'I tried to be honest with all of you as much as I can. Yes, I'm from Mexico, I'm a model and I'm 21.?

'But, Tom, I really love spending time with you. I love men and I love 存在 a woman. But I'm not a woman, I was born as a m an.'?

Her words, which friends believe were scripted by the TV 乗組員, were 最初 met with laughter from the five other boys and pure shock from Tom.?

In the reality show, 述べるd as 'the most 爆発性の dating experience of a lifetime', Tom had grown の近くに to Miriam and had even been filmed getting intimate with her and kissing her passionately.?

He was left speechless but he couldn't 含む／封じ込める his shock as his eyebrows raised in 不信 and he began uncomfortably scratching the 支援する of his 長，率いる.??

乗組員 member Leo McCrea 解任するd in the 文書の: 'It was so incredibly uncomfortable. It felt like all the 空気／公表する had been sucked out the room.?

'And Tom, he was gasping, and looking around at all the deceit.'

The other boys began laughing in the background while Tom was in shock

Tom (pictured) said he felt deceived and although he 最初 受託するd the prize money and ヨット trip, he later 辞退するd it before the show 空気／公表するd

But as the news 始める，決める in, the boys grew angry at the deception and 開始する，打ち上げるd a 訴訟 against the show

Although Tom 最初 said he'd still go on the ヨット trip because 'we're all good friends here,' a behind-the-scenes interview 明らかにする／漏らすd his true thoughts.?

Speaking to the camera, he said: 'I'm very shocked, and I wouldn't want to spend a week on a boat with someone I didn't 信用 and deceived me.?

'I was 存在 honest in that house, and he [speaking about Miriam] wasn't. He was lying to everybody and he doesn't have that 権利.'?

After the 初期の shock, the boys grew angry. Former contestant Toby Green 解任する d that 走者-up Scott Gibson 'went berserk' and soon, things began to 'spiral out of 支配（する）／統制する'.?

Scott, a 戦争の arts 指導者, began to 粉砕する the 始める，決める up and even chased the director around the pool.?

When psychiatrist Dr Gareth Smith spoke to the boys to try to 静める them 負かす／撃墜する, they chillingly 非難するd Miriam instead of the 生産／産物 乗組員. At one point Dr Smith even 解任するd one of them 説: 'I'm going to f***ing kill her'.?

Tom, who was an actor, was worried about how the show would 影響する／感情 his career, 報道によれば telling Gareth: 'I can't be a gay actor.'?

The 生産者s had 雇うd a 一連の underhand 策略 to deceive the boys, 含むing 申し込む／申し出ing them an indecipherable 契約, deliberately 避けるing the use of pronouns, and even 除去するing contestants if they began to 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う the truth. As a result, the boys were furious.??

New Channel 4 文書の Miriam: Death Of A Reality 星／主役にする is 調査するing her life and rise to fame in more 詳細（に述べる）

Psychiatrist Dr Gareth Smith said the boys had even 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 'kill' Miriam

The contestants were flown 支援する to London, where they decided to 開始する，打ち上げる an （裁判所の）禁止（強制）命令 to stop the show from ever 存在 空気／公表するd.??

The men 申し立てられた／疑わしい 共謀 to commit 性の 強襲，強姦, defamation, 違反 of 契約, and personal 傷害 in the form of psychological and emotional 損失.?

They 結局 settled for an 公表されていない 量, and the show 空気／公表するd the に引き続いて year. The 大規模な スキャンダル 報道によれば cost Sky TV three ４半期/4分の1s of a million 続けざまに猛撃するs, によれば （人命などを）奪う，主張するs in the 文書の.?

But the 生産者s naivety was also shown in their 治療 of Miriam herself, who tragically passed away in 2019, which Mexican 当局 held to be '自殺' - although he r husband has always 主張するd she was 殺人d.??

Unlike the boys, who had a psychiatrist brought in for them, Miriam was given no support にもかかわらず coming out to the world and receiving a 激流 of 乱用.?

Her words after the finale was filmed 明らかにする／漏らす just how 攻撃を受けやすい she was feeling at the time.

She said: 'I went 支援する to the hotel and I was shaking from the experience. I didn't know if they were going to punch me or attack me.?

'I wasn't out to 傷つける anyone's feelings. No one in the 乗組員 would talk to me. They were all my friends during filming and now they don't want to know me. I feel really upset and alone.'

Dr Smith, who was brought in to 申し込む／申し出 support to the boys, 反映するd: 'I had been brought in 表面上は to look after the boys.?

Aron 小道／航路 (pictured in the 文書の) was a conte stant on the show. He saw an advert in the Metro newspaper, reading: 'Do you want to be in a dating show?'

Toby Green was also on the show but ended up leaving after 発言する／表明するing his 疑惑s about Miriam

Miriam was known as the 'world's first transgender reality 星／主役にする' and went on to appear on Big Brother Australia

'No one had given a thought to how Miriam might feel. The 明らかにする／漏らす was her coming out to the world and as far as I was aware, Miriam hadn't been psych 実験（する）d.?

'How would she を取り引きする 拒絶? Not just from who she 選ぶd, but everyone who thought trans people were freaks.

'They sold her a dream without anybody telling her what could go wrong. I thought, she's 攻撃を受けやすい, she's had a really really hard life, like a bird with a broken wing.'?

Miriam was already in a 攻撃を受けやすい position when the show was filmed in 2003 when she was 21. She had begun taking hormones 老年の 11 and was living as a woman by the time she was 16.

But her father Fernando Mendoza never 受託するd her 身元, and even brought in a 大臣 to the family home to 'exorcise' the 'demons' from her 団体／死体.?

Left traumatised by the ordeal, Miriam fled home for Tijuana on the US-Mexico 国境, where she began working in a club.?

にもかかわらず the fact that Miriam was 明確に 攻撃を受けやすい, the TV (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs who worked on There's Something About Miriam continue to defend their 決定／判定勝ち（する）s in the Channel 4 文書の.?

When asked how she felt about the deception, 生産／産物 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Jo Josun said: 'I didn't feel anything. I'm in the 商売／仕事 of making television shows.?

'I didn't feel anything about the 判型 that I felt was bad or wrong. I didn't feel that way, I really didn't.

'Do I think it went beyond any moral codes of 行為／行う? No.'?

Sky later 除去するd There's Something About Miriam from its 壇・綱領・公約s and apologised

There's Something About Miriam has been 広範囲にわたって 述べるd as 'cruel' and 'exploitative', and a 類似の 判型 is yet to be 再生するd anywhere in the world. Miriam pictured in 2004

And speaking about Miriam, she 追加するd: 'The whole 前提 of the show was the reaction.. that's just the nature of TV programming.

'This idea that this poor young woman was plucked out of Mexico and 捨てるd into this 状況／情勢... she was a savvy, clever woman. She knew 正確に／まさに what she was getting into and why, and she 手配中の，お尋ね者 to be part of it.'

The show's (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 生産者 Remy Blumenfeld of Brighter Pictures 認める in a 2022 interview: 'I don't feel like I was cruel in making it. I feel like I was incredibly na?ve. Our 意向 for the show was for テレビ視聴者s to watch it and to relate to Miriam's story.'?

Banijay, which acquired Endemol in 2020, said in a 声明 地位，任命するd on the show: 'Benijay does not in any way support the 編集（者）の 概念 or the 生産／産物 過程s of the show.?

'We 支持する／優勝者 inclusivity and prioritise 福利事業. The 管理／経営 責任がある this show no longer work with the company.'?

Sky later apologised and 除去するd There's Something About Miriam from its 壇・綱領・公約s.?

'The Truth', the second episode of Miriam: Death Of A Reality 星／主役にする 空気／公表するs tonight at 9pm on Channel 4.??