Women Held Hostage Were Tricked Into Thinking They Were Filming Reality TV

Wow.  Nine women sent in their audition tapes, were interviewed, and were selected to be on a Turkish reality TV show similar to Big Brother.  You know the rules of reality TV, though, ladies: you can’t contact your friends or family, leaving the house (or tour bus, as the case may be) is prohibited, you have to pose nude so that the photographers can sell images of you online, there is no prize money, and the show is not being filmed or aired on TV because it’s actually a makeshift sex prison instead of a TV show.  Any questions?  Great, welcome to the show. Scary, crazy, eye-opening for sure, but at least the women are OK:

The women were rescued on Monday from the villa in Riva, a summer resort on the outskirts of Istanbul, according to a spokesman for the military police in the region who carried out the raid. He said the women were held captive for around two months, but refused to provide further details.

More details:  

The girls were told that they would be fined tens of thousands of dollars if they left the house; however, some tried to anyway.  News sources indicate that they knew they were not actually taping a show.

“We were not after the money but we thought our daughter could have the chance of becoming famous if she took part in the contest,” one captive’s mother is quoted as saying. “But they have duped us all.”

She said the women were not abused or harassed sexually, but that they were told to fight each other, to wear bikinis and to dance by the villa’s pool.

It’s, like, almost as bad as Heidi and Spencer had it.

Kids, don’t do reality TV.

Source: The Guardian.