Last week while at the Santa Monica Promenade, I saw a camera crew and people with clipboards buzzing around, so I assumed they were filming something. A few years ago, same place, they were shooting something for the Playboy channel and in the mist of all the Anna Nicole look-a-likes, I hear my name called out. An innocent familiar face, wearing a baseball cap, smiles at me and to my amazement it turns out to be a friend of my daughter's that I have known since they were in kindergarten. She is now working as a producer's assistant for the Playboy channel, which was a real shock to me. She looked as out of place as Snow White at a breast implant convention.
Anyway, this time a crew was filming Ten Years Younger, which I vaguely heard of, but have never had the pleasure to watch. The premise of the show is to pick people who look much
older than they actually are, put them in a soundproof box, let
perfect strangers critique their appearance, while a "Glam Squad" is
standing by to give them a completely non-surgical makeover. They promise to take a
decade off the person's looks in a mere 10 days.
They were trying to recruit people to be on camera while guessing the person's age and commenting on why they looked so old. People volunteered, and were pretty brutal in their comments about this poor woman, standing alone in the box. Supposedly she found out what they said, because the next thing I knew, she was out of the box, and the producer was trying to get her to stop crying. As they walked around, I heard him tell her that the worst part was over, and it would all be worth it after the make-over. I hope he is right cause she sure looked like she wanted to kill herself.
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