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Reality TV - the road to success?

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Ron Copsey was one of a group of contestants who agreed to live for a year on a desert island, with cameras following their attempts to survive together. He left the island after five months, and later accused the producers of the show of misrepresenting him, claiming they had edited the film to make it look as if he was throwing a chair in the face of one of the women. "I'm not an argumentative, agressive, nasty piece of work. It was shocking," he told a journalist later. "The producers led the public to believe that the other contestants were glad to see the back of me but it wasn't true." After returning home from the island, Mr Copsey said he was unable to continue with his college course as other students wouldn't talk to him, and he had to take antidepressant pills. The television company has agreed to pay him £16,000 compensation.

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Craig Phillips was the winner of one of the first Reality TV programmes to be shown in England, called Big Brother. Craig was originally a builder, and comes from Liverpool. After the series ended, he admitted: "I don't know why I won - you'll have to ask all those people that voted for me." Craig donated his £70,000 prize money to teenage friend Jo Harris, to help pay for a heart and lung operation in America. "She's a unique young lady and it is wonderful to be in the position to help her," he said at the time. Craig later had a five-album deal with a recording company but he was dropped after his first single. However, he has continued to raise money for charities, as well as appearing regularly on daytime television shows.

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Denise Leigh won joint first prize in a TV contest called Operatunity, in which ordinary people had the chance to be transformed into opera singers. But there is nothing ordinary about Denise. She is a blind woman of amazing determination who has succeeded against all the odds. She had always dreamed of a musical career, but this was prevented by the birth of her children. Being a blind mother of three is a challenge. "It's the hardest job in the world," she says. "Keeping them safe is definitely more worrying than anything that can happen to you on stage." Now the children are all at school, she is free to pursue her dreams, and after Operatunity she is better placed than she had ever hoped for. "Now I have sung on stage at the London Coliseum I am a different person," she said the morning after her triumph. "Winning the contest has changed my life."

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Will Young shot to success when he won the TV contest Pop Idol out of over a thousand contenders, and was offered a contract with a major record company. He is modest about his success. "I don't think it's me myself they're voting for, it's the TV contestant, and in that context I feel very flattered by it all," he said. His first single, Evergreen, became the fastest-selling single of all time. It sold over a million copies in its first week. Will thinks that being a pop idol isn't only a matter of having a good voice - there are generally other factors involved. "Performers over the ages have always given off a kind of energy. I think it's about a whole image - the look, the clothes, the music - which puts a distance between you and the other people."


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