While watching this admittedly entertaining show a week or two ago I typed in one of the names into my phone. I finally just Google'd his name and he has his own website resume listing all his television appearances. Ha!
http://www.greginsco.com/
and this doesn't surprise me in the least
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You have to have one brain cell to believe any of these "reality" shows today are real. They are fake and mostly set up for shock value.
In one of the interviews on the fake reality boards, I saw an interview for the Terence episode. The Chinese buffet restaurant said he has never paid in change ever.
Everything is overdone and set up for shock value which they hope brings in higher ratings.
I'm not sure they're totally fake. A quite famous and legit "frugal blogger" was asked to film a segment for the show (though I think it didn't air in the end)
http://thenonconsumeradvocate.com/2011/12/extreme-cheapskates-yup-that s-me/
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While watching this admittedly entertaining show a week or two ago I typed in one of the names into my phone. I finally just Google'd his name and he has his own website resume listing all his television appearances. Ha!
http://www.greginsco.com/
I'm confused... you typed in a name and found a website for the person on the show, so that means he's "a fraud"? That makes no sense. Being a shameless self-promoter doesn't make someone a fraud.
shareTrue slim-but if you look at greggs own website, he's trying to become a famous reality tv star. If it means hamming it up as an extra on some no name local tv show, he's in. If getting famous means looking like an ass to the world on TLC, he'll do it.
He, by his own admission on his own website (link in the OP on this topic) he has several "reality tv" credits under his belt. And he's willing to do more. He was by far the most fake of the entire lot.
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They are all pretty much frauds. I was sent casting notice through an industry site
"So, you wrote a bad play and were molested, welcome to the theatre."
I know that all or almost all reality shows these days are fake. I think there may be a possibity that some of the people on this show are actual cheapskates, but I think even they exaggerate for dramatic effect. I also think that at least a large percentage of the people are paid actors.
I was watching tonight and one guy supposedly found a girl on an online dating site. He called her up and said that he saw her picture on the site and thought she was cute. This indicated that this was the first time he had communicated with her. I don't know ANY dating site where people put their personal phone numbers in their ads. So no one is just going to be able to call someone without having responded to their ad on the site first. So that was definitely fake. Also, she seemed to act repulsed by his cheapskate act, but then didn't hesitate to say she'd go out with him again. Sure its POSSIBLE, but unlikely to be true. In real life, a pretty young girl would most likely go running from a guy who did that on a first date.
If I'd been the girl he went out on a date with I would have given him the one fingered salute, told him to sit and spin and left.
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This episode was the one that made me stop watching the show. Due to Greg being a blatant actor. He was terrible too, hamming up every moment. The guy was relishing his pathetic 15 minutes.
I did find the previous episodes and the pilot interesting. Our society wastes a ridiculous amount of everything. Myself included. Sitting here typing this message on a tablet I certainly don't need. I almost replaced it for the newer model, which does pretty much the exact same thing. Yet I yearn to have the latest and greatest.
I would draw the line before using cloths to wipe my ass. Ugh, why didn't that woman install a cheap bidet? they are like 20 bux.
Pity the idiotic producers pushed this show past the point where I'm willing to let credibility slide.