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Heather Mills plans disability TV show

Heather Mills has revealed that she wants to make a documentary about people living with disabilities.

The charity campaigner, 41, said that she would like to get celebrities such as Gordon Ramsay involved in the TV project, which she is working on with her Dancing On Ice partner Matt Evers.

Speaking on This Morning, she said: "I want to get people like you Eamonn [Holmes, [presenter] and get you to spend a week in a wheelchair. To see what it's like to live with a disability. You would have to be looked after and pushed around by your wife.

"We would also get a chef like Gordon Ramsay, blindfold him, and put him in the kitchen for a week."

American skater Evers said teaming up with Mills has changed his "life" and "career".

Mills, who was voted off Dancing On Ice last night, also claimed that she was in talks about appearing on the reality show's live tour later this year.

Source: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/dancingonice/n...ty-tv-show.html

[dangerousdave]

There are plenty of real full time crips about to showcase such a show for real
That includes celebraty crips

So wanna be crips just piss me off

Not interested

[Tetracyclone]

So this idea is for ABs to be highly entertained by the specter, or illusion, of disability? Save it for private parties, I'd say, but TV is one big freak show anymore. How about "Castaway Crips"?

[DaveP]

I met Heather Mills years ago when she came over to the Algarve in January to shoot a calender for "sports for disabled" - in winter!

She barged into my office, unannounced and made all sorts of demands and got really stroppy and rude when I explained it was January and there weren't many activities open - ie jet skiing, water skiing, sailing, scuba diving, etc.

I then had a really great idea and gave her a loan of a Hyrdofoil sitski that was behind my desk that I was looking after for a friend. I'd had enough of her attitude so told her it was really easy to use, but much easier in the sea and not on a lake (it's colder in the sea and much harder! lol)

http://www.hydrofoil.org/WhatIs.html

She turned up a few days later to return the hydrofoil and flew out early as she didn't manage to get any shots she could use. And I never saw any calender!

A few years later I found out who she was when she married Makka.

I think it's a pathetic idea and she's just trying to improve her terrible image. She's only got a foot missing so, let's be realistic, this is the possibly the one of the least forms of disabilities one can have!

[brython2]

A show like this was done a few years ago on Ch5 or Ch4.
Gail Porter follwed a blind person around and was blindfolded etc and if I rememeber correctly Gabby Roslin had the "wheelchair experiance". The programme was pretty positive etc (from what I remember!)

[WildKat]

Apparelyzed, on Feb 11 2010, 06:23 AM, said:

Heather Mills plans disability TV show

Heather Mills has revealed that she wants to make a documentary about people living with disabilities.

The charity campaigner, 41, said that she would like to get celebrities such as Gordon Ramsay involved in the TV project, which she is working on with her Dancing On Ice partner Matt Evers.

Speaking on This Morning, she said: "I want to get people like you Eamonn [Holmes, [presenter] and get you to spend a week in a wheelchair. To see what it's like to live with a disability. You would have to be looked after and pushed around by your wife.

"We would also get a chef like Gordon Ramsay, blindfold him, and put him in the kitchen for a week."

American skater Evers said teaming up with Mills has changed his "life" and "career".

Mills, who was voted off Dancing On Ice last night, also claimed that she was in talks about appearing on the reality show's live tour later this year.

Source: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/dancingonice/n...ty-tv-show.html

Oh where do I even start... I'm both blind and have a spinal cord injury. Why would Eamonn (or anyone else she chooses to do this) have to "be looked after and pushed around"? Sitting in a wheelchair might give you some perception of how accessible a place is, but not really of what a disability is like. Also I hope when she blindfolds Gordon Ramsay in a kitchen she is prepared to bleep out a lot more swearing! I think it would be a good idea to at least contact the RNIB and have someone teach him some skills first. Personally I might watch to see how much they mess up, but it wouldn't be on my top things to watch list. I might have been a tiny bit interested if she didn't say the bit about being pushed around etc. But I think that is just going to put a negative image of all of us out to the public, showing that none of us can actually do anything at all for ourselves.

I'd be much more interested in a show where she got people who are actually disabled and showed what we can do and that we can live our lives etc. That would be more educating than for the couple of people that will go on the show as it's planned because instead of those few people "benefiting" from it everyone who views it could.

Or even if she paired up celebrities with actual disabled people it could work better.

(Sorry for the edits I kept thinking of different things to add)

This post has been edited by WildKat: 11 February 2010 - 02:38 PM

[Apparelyzed]

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You would have to be looked after and pushed around by your wife.

Let the lazy bugger push himself around, that's more realistic.

Oh yeah, and lock his legs at 90 degree's so he can't cheat and get up and stretch his legs whenever he wants!

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Also I hope when she blindfolds Gordon Ramsay in a kitchen she is prepared to bleep out a lot more swearing!

He could have a dual disability, Blindness and Tourettes!

Simon :-)

[dangerousdave]

He could have a dual disability, Blindness and Tourettes!

Isn't that what she suffers from

I do hate condensending xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Parachute]

Apparelyzed, on Feb 11 2010, 02:40 PM, said:

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You would have to be looked after and pushed around by your wife.

Let the lazy bugger push himself around, that's more realistic.

Oh yeah, and lock his legs at 90 degree's so he can't cheat and get up and stretch his legs whenever he wants!

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Also I hope when she blindfolds Gordon Ramsay in a kitchen she is prepared to bleep out a lot more swearing!

He could have a dual disability, Blindness and Tourettes!

Simon :-)

Would someone lie in bed flat with a neckbrace, catheter and have their bum wiped and also have bed baths???? Not forgetting being fed.

[Quad65]

She should just go someplace and quietly spend Sir Paul's money.

[Tinbasher]

I have much better idea.

Lets get some rich white people and black their faces. Then they can find out what its like to be black? Oh wait that might be a racist stereotype.

Or even better maybe Greybeard and I can dress in Trinity's frock and stick a couple melons down our front and then we would really find out what its like for a woman. Oh hang on that would be a shaollow gender stereotype?

I can't describe how enraged this idea makes me it is such a simplification of what makes our lives different from everyone else and would probably cause uproar if the ideas above were tried.

Tin

[allis53ca]

well, shes got "A" leg up on me

This post has been edited by allis53ca: 11 February 2010 - 11:01 PM

[Parachute]

Tinbasher, on Feb 11 2010, 10:48 PM, said:

I have much better idea.

Lets get some rich white people and black their faces. Then they can find out what its like to be black? Oh wait that might be a racist stereotype.

Or even better maybe Greybeard and I can dress in Trinity's frock and stick a couple melons down our front and then we would really find out what its like for a woman. Oh hang on that would be a shaollow gender stereotype?

I can't describe how enraged this idea makes me it is such a simplification of what makes our lives different from everyone else and would probably cause uproar if the ideas above were tried.

Tin

I 100% agree.

[S&W Winger]

DaveP, on Feb 11 2010, 08:20 AM, said:

She's only got a foot missing so, let's be realistic, this is the possibly the one of the least forms of disabilities one can have!

Wait a minute!!! I was devastated when I almost lost my right foot due to a pressure wound that became infected to the bone with MRSA because of an inept CNA leaving my legbag open...let's be a tad sympathetic to Mills' utterly disabling footlessness here for a minute.... OK! Minute's up!



I agree with all the agreement of the absurdity...so unless someone REALLY comes along and volunteers to experience a SCI (OK, let it be temporary....they can reconnect the nerves after the show... wrong production!)...

Tinbasher, on Feb 11 2010, 05:48 PM, said:

I have much better idea.

Lets get some rich white people and black their faces. Then they can find out what its like to be black? Oh wait that might be a racist stereotype.

Or even better maybe Greybeard and I can dress in Trinity's frock and stick a couple melons down our front and then we would really find out what its like for a woman. Oh hang on that would be a shaollow gender stereotype?

I can't describe how enraged this idea makes me it is such a simplification of what makes our lives different from everyone else and would probably cause uproar if the ideas above were tried.

Tin

Excellent analogies, Tin! And, like you and the others, my anger is ineffable...but then it dissipates into a vapor as vapid as her mind...perhaps her true disability is mental impairment...so should we do as some AB's toward us and PITY her?!!!!!

[Travelling Blackbird]

There are educational activities that some schools do where a wheelchair user or blind or deaf person comes in to talk to the kids, and then over the course of a week or two, the kids from those classes have opportunities to experience what the guest speakers were talking about in a controlled way: using a wheelchair, being blindfold, etc. in the city, or in the school grounds. The guest speaker is usually present for at least some of these exercises. The kids later write about their experiences and discuss what could be done in the city to improve accessibility. I've taken part in such activities as a guest speaker, and I find that the programs work well.

However, what's being proposed here has no educational value. Blindfold Gordon Ramsay in a kitchen? So he stumbles around, swears up a storm, and later says "Oh, I'd hate to be blind". Now, if they suggested having a blind chef come and speak about their work and their reality, and teach some techniques, and then have someone try to learn those techniques, or speak about in-kitchen problems and then try to solve them, that might be worth showing.

The proposed programme is just empty spectacle, and, exactly as Tinbasher said, borders on blackfaced white people experiencing racism in terms of insensitive pointless pseudo-educational nonsense.

[Trinity]

Tinbasher, on Feb 11 2010, 10:48 PM, said:

Greybeard and I can dress in Trinity's frock and stick a couple melons down our front and then we would really find out what its like for a woman.

I think this idea shows promise

[StillFingers]

I wonder how one of these wannabe crips would enjoy having a wound-vac strapped to there arse

Better yet, drop an open box of paper clips or a ream of paper on a thick carpet, sit them in a manual chair with a high profile roho cushion, let them pick up each item...it's one great workout, gloves are optional, but I'd advise using them

[greybeard]

Trinity, on Feb 12 2010, 07:18 PM, said:

Tinbasher, on Feb 11 2010, 10:48 PM, said:

Greybeard and I can dress in Trinity's frock and stick a couple melons down our front and then we would really find out what its like for a woman.

I think this idea shows promise

Can I book in for a fitting, Trin? I'll bring the melons. Something with sequins I think, don't you?

This post has been edited by greybeard: 12 February 2010 - 10:24 PM

[Meadowlarkmark]

Old news--this is so tiresome. "Crip for a Day did not work then and it will not work now!!