Channel 4 review contradicts Nadine Dorries’ fake reality show claim | Investigation finds no evidence paid actors appeared on 2010 programme featuring Tory MP who is now culture secretary

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1. The only paid actor in the show was the current Culture Secretary, she was acting like she cares and wants to be in the same room as those less fortunate.

2. Minister for Disinformation Nadine “Infowars” Dorries told a parliamentary select committee:

   > “The parents of the boys in that programme actually came here to have lunch with me, and contacted me to tell me, actually, they were in acting school, and that they weren’t really living in a flat, and they weren’t real.

   > “There’s a pharmacist or somebody that I went to see who prepared food – she was also a paid actress as well.”

   In a huge surprise to no-one, an investigation has concluded these claims were untrue.

   > Julian Knight, the chair of the DCMS select committee, said that it had asked Dorries for a response to the findings of the investigation “as a matter of urgency”.

   > “The committee has written to the secretary of state on this matter and invited comments from her as a matter of urgency. Now that Channel 4 and Love Productions have concluded the investigation, we look forward to receiving the secretary of state’s response, which we will then publish.”

   Alex Jones was unavailable for comment.

3. Did she think C4 weren’t going to investigate her allegations? How can anyone be this stupid?

4. Nadine Dorries, Kultur Secretary.

5. I’m assuming that she used the fifty pounds she smuggled in to buy cheap vodka.

   neverTrustATory!

6. An MP Deliberately lying to a select committee is perjury but off course it is never enforced.

7. She’s another thick one, along with Truss.

8. Now if someone said that Nadine Dorries was actually a character played by an actress/comedian who had gone deep undercover in an attempt to satirise modern politics, that I would find easier to believe.

9. It’s kinda a trump-esque manipulation of reality… but less clever. “These people, they weren’t real, they were crisis actors”.

10. fake reality show? isnt that just every reality show?

11. This woman has the IQ of a toilet brush, how the hell is she in a position like this?

12. Delusional plastic faced lunatic

13. So what are the consequences? It was a pretty major accusation that makes C4 sound pretty terrible.

    First I feel like there should be some law that her lie breaks considering she was making the claim to a select comity in Parliament. Surely you can’t just make stuff up in those?

    Then I feel like Channel 4 could easily sue for slander can’t they? Shes straight up negatively affecting their reputation through lies and using stuff like that as reason to sell them.

14. Did she not expect Channel 4 to be able to disprove this? She must think that if she says something, anything, that it automatically becomes true, as if her words can bend reality. It’s like she thinks Scarlet Witch is a real person.

15. Oh wow, fancy that.

    Channel 4’s investigations into Channel 4 found in favour of Channel 4.