WWTBAM Bored

August 4, 2008 issue of Star Magazine, page 41:

"Wipeout, ABC's new summer hit in which contestants navigate an extreme obstacle course is billed as "a painfully funny reality series." No one knows that better than Mark Anthony DiBello. The former L.A. school teacher suffered a broken rib and a collapsed and punctured lung while competing on the show! "The shoot went from bad to worse," DiBello, 47, tells Star of the January taping in Van Nuys, Calif., in which he had to jump onto huge pylons over water. "My life jacket didn't fit; I couldn't breathe or move my arms. Then I hit the first pylon and broke my rib. I was in pain, in the water and stuck in mud."
The thought of winning the $50,000 first prize - "any my adrenaline" - kept him going, says Mark, but all he ended up earning was a trip to the hospital. ABC compensated him for his $2,000 bill.

[Gee, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. But think of it this way, Mark; it's almost like you got a runner-up prize of $2000 - the other contestants who failed didn't get anything!]

I wonder if he donated any of his money to his ministry.

jsuchard wrote:August 4, 2008 issue of Star Magazine, page 41:

"Wipeout, ABC's new summer hit in which contestants navigate an extreme obstacle course is billed as "a painfully funny reality series." No one knows that better than Mark Anthony DiBello. The former L.A. school teacher suffered a broken rib and a collapsed and punctured lung while competing on the show! "The shoot went from bad to worse," DiBello, 47, tells Star of the January taping in Van Nuys, Calif., in which he had to jump onto huge pylons over water. "My life jacket didn't fit; I couldn't breathe or move my arms. Then I hit the first pylon and broke my rib. I was in pain, in the water and stuck in mud."
The thought of winning the $50,000 first prize - "any my adrenaline" - kept him going, says Mark, but all he ended up earning was a trip to the hospital. ABC compensated him for his $2,000 bill.

[Gee, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. But think of it this way, Mark; it's almost like you got a runner-up prize of $2000 - the other contestants who failed didn't get anything!]

Bummer. I guess "former L.A. school teacher" is the new politically correct term for anybody whose current means of livelihood would take longer to explain than the entire rest of the story.

Jeff: Didn't PSM want you to audition for "Wipeout"?

thguy65 wrote:Jeff: Didn't PSM want you to audition for "Wipeout"?

I think she just wanted to meet MAD.

thguy65 wrote:Jeff: Didn't PSM want you to audition for "Wipeout"?

No! He thought about it for 10 seconds and realized that it probably wouldn't be a good idea.

ulysses5019 wrote:

thguy65 wrote:Jeff: Didn't PSM want you to audition for "Wipeout"?

I think she just wanted to meet MAD.

I've met him. He was handing out cards soliciting business at a GSC.

schadenfreude!

I have seen one of these shows.

The voice-over guys are funny.

I have done more laughing than cringing.

I think that might make me heartless.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:

thguy65 wrote:Jeff: Didn't PSM want you to audition for "Wipeout"?

No! He thought about it for 10 seconds and realized that it probably wouldn't be a good idea.

I always seem to click by the show when the contestants have to keep jumping over the moving bar, while standing on the pylons. Always good for a laugh.