Voting

Since those assholes of Shanghai Young Channel TV promised to send me a DVD copy of the show but never arrived, just recently, while browsing a sort of chinese-youtube trying to find clues, I’ve finally bumped into the footage where I was featured back in November 2010. Better late than never.
More than a year ago, when I had just returned to Milan, I was contacted by a Chinese TV talent scout who found my profile on the net and promptly offered me to join a Reality TV project. The format was simple: 4 chinese ladies traveling from Shanghai to Milan challenging each other by playing stupid games and the winner gets to stay in Italy and job position in a stylish Italian boutique (sponsored by “Herbalist”). It was explained to me that it was going to be a reality-show where everyone is free to act naturally and freely and where I could have even had the chance to meet a nice lady… basically I said I was in without thinking too much…
What a pity that this show had nothing to do with reality but I’d call it instead trash and fake TV: the whole thing is indeed a total set up and a sham! I just hope somebody from China reads this and bury the producers with loads of scandal.
During the first part, (星尚之旅 米兰站 第1/4集) at around minute 16.20 in the video, you can see a naive lady hunting for a random gentleman in the streets of Milan; at some point she finds me standing at the bus stop reading a newspaper. She asks me if i want to join the game, making it look like it all happens by chance. Real or fake? Fake of course: I was contracted 2 months before the show and I was told exactly where to stand and what to do. About minute 34.40 when I get into a cafe I am wearing a different jacket because the scene was shot on the third day and not on the first like it was said to the audience. By the way I started to look down at the 4 ladies as soon as I realized they were dying to win and be a fucking slave clerk for a sissy shop… I felt pity for them, for their inner poorness, but eventually it made me nervous working with them so I started to do my best to mess up the show. I then convinced the other italian guys to have some fun all together and we began to swear in front of the camera (in the second part, 星尚之旅 米兰站 第2/4集 about 39.20) you can hear a chorus of “PORCO DIO” (god fucking damn it). At minute 46:35 in the third part ( 星尚之旅 米兰站 第3/4集 ) I was asked again to vote-out one of the ladies; I had to disclose one name and a reason: it was a difficult choice because they were all dumb bitches so I thought of giving them the satisfaction of my exterior judgement at least, therefore, I picked the one who was fatter, and that was my reason, simple and bold, however the producer told me that I couldnt say that on TV… so after several minutes of discussion where I kept asking them what was the point calling this a ”reality” when it was all made of mirrors and smoke, I was ultimately pushed to tell a lie, I had to say that the girl seemed to be holding a secret and that was why I didnt like her…
I have done so much against the show that when I reviewed the content which was eventually aired, I saw I had at least 50% of my video cut along with at least 70% of the audio were re-edited and muted in most cases.
The fourth part, 星尚之旅 米兰站 第4/4集 is characterized by a funny ending that wasn’t surprisingly cut off like my other performances: when everyone gave their final vote to the ladies, I refused to provide mine, popping a baloon and turning my back on them.
There were also many smiles within all that sad shallowness and I have to admit that in the end of the 5 filming days I had a substantial amount of carefree fun plus I got a new pal (Roberto), with whom I remained friend till now.

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