As far as reality TV goes, this is probably scraping the sludge off the bottom of the pond and that’s saying something.
A transgender drag queen who took part in MTV dating show Catfish has opened up about her ‘traumatizing’ experience filming for the popular series – revealing how she was ‘humiliated’ by producers who helped to throw her into the center of a revenge plot 20 years in the making.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Sham Ibrahim laid bare horrific behind-the-scenes details about what it was really like to shoot for the show – days after her dramatic episode aired, revealing how she ended up in a screaming match with host Nev Schulman and got into a physical fight with someone on-set.
Sham’s Catfish nightmare began after she got in touch with the MTV show – which sees hosts Nev, 38, and Kamie Crawford, 30, helping people who are involved in online relationships with partners they have never met. The hosts play amateur sleuths who assist in determining whether the romances are authentic or fake.
Does anyone actually watch this vile cack? Really?
There is so much to unpick here, it’s difficult to know where to start. Firstly, never get involved with television, radio or news media at all if you can avoid it. If you have no option, prepare a statement of facts and don’t deviate from it and don’t answer questions. Never, never, never take part in reality TV. They aren’t interested in you or your story, they are interested in whatever makes dramatic viewing and if you suffer, well, that’s just the way it is.
Secondly, what we have here is a gay man looking for another (presumably gay) man. When you strip it back, that’s what you have got here, just to make it simple to follow. It’s fairly evident that this bloke had his doubts. Why else would he be trying to find out if he was being catfished? Something must have rung alarm bells. As it turned out, he was right.
After hearing about Phillip from Sham, a friend reached out to Catfish producers – hoping to prove that Philip was who he claimed to be. Sadly, he was not.
In fact, as it turned out, Phillip was a former acquaintance of Sham’s named Mike, who dreamed up the entire online romance as part of a vicious revenge plot to get back at Sham for having a tryst with his ex-lover 20 years ago.
Mike’s cruel prank was revealed during Sham’s episode of the show, which aired last week, with the Catfish cameras capturing the horrifying moment that Mike gleefully revealed himself to be ‘Phillip’.
The moment – which featured in the episode – showed a horrified Sham left open-mouthed in shock as Mike boasted about his con, telling her: ‘You always wanted a prince. Well here I am.
‘It’s me, your old friend Mike. I’m Phillip. I did the whole thing, of course I did.’
He continued: ‘I told you I was going to get you back girl. I told you. You stole my boyfriend in Mexico. I told you, I said, “Don’t take my boyfriend.” And you took him anyway. You are evil and you are a slut.
‘I told you I would get you back. You can’t just throw away a friend that has been with you for 20 years.’
Yeah, getting your dirty washing all over the box is not a great look, frankly. This was a self own, so my sympathy is limited.
Regardless, Sham is not crying over split milk and tells DailyMail.com that he managed to find a silver lining in the entire situation – the fact that Catfish and its producers were so accepting of her and the trans community.
‘You can clearly see that I am transgender from outer space. This has made dating in my life extremely difficult because many do not understand it,’ Sham tells DailyMail.com.
‘At a time when transgender rights are being stripped away, they all made a huge concerted effort to make me feel accepted. Nev took the time to really understand me. This meant so much to me.
Transgender rights are being stripped away? Clearly what happened in New Zealand a week or so ago has passed this one by. We are having transgender rights forcibly rammed down our throats whether we like it or not. People are finding themselves cancelled for the ‘crime’ of misgendering – i.e. correctly identifying someone by their biological sex.
No, trans rights are not being stripped away. What has been happening is a small, and hopefully growing, pushback against this toxic ideology.
Is this more about the fact that being famous for being famous is better than working for a living?
Reality Tv is the new visiting the lunatics at bethlem hospital. There’s a reason i don’t watch tv , apart from the relentless PC wokeness, reality tv is up there.
Pretty much likewise. The whole concept of reality TV makes my skin crawl.