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!]
Mark Anthony DiBello Update!
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Re: Mark Anthony DiBello Update!
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.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!]
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The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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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.PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:No! He thought about it for 10 seconds and realized that it probably wouldn't be a good idea.thguy65 wrote:Jeff: Didn't PSM want you to audition for "Wipeout"?