Yuku free message boards

Heliox wrote:

---

Fluffynurse... totally agree. And loved the 'over the waterfalls' stunt that Branson set up to find out if any of them were stupid enough to risk their life in a task that would have killed them if they followed through. I don't think that Branson would be good for another one though. The second place finisher used her runner up funds and is a multi-millionairess who put $1mil towards Oprah's girls school in Africa.

That was Sara. I actually wanted her to win. And the irony is that the winner, Shawn, had to file for bankruptcy about a year after he won the show. His company LoveSac is still going but I doubt he's anywhere near as successful as Sara. Shows how much Branson knows...

The battle over indecency on the airwaves has now spread to reality TV -- and it looks like a 2003 Fox program has become the test case.

Reuters reports that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which regulates the nation's radio and TV broadcasters, has proposed a total fine of $1,183,000 against Fox affiliate stations for their broadcast of the Fox reality series Married By America. The fine works out to $7,000 assessed against each of the 169 Fox affiliates that aired the show at 8 PM, during the "family hours" when children were most likely to be watching.

In a 5-0 ruling, the FCC held that some of the activities portrayed in a specific April 7, 2003 episode focusing on Las Vegas bachelor and bachelorette parties, including scenes of (i) a topless woman straddling a man's torso while lap dancing, (ii) whipped cream being licked off another topless woman's chest and (iii) two female strippers spanking a man wearing only underwear, were indecent under federal standards. Although the nudity was partially obscured, the FCC received 159 complaints about the show and eventually concluded that the actions were so explicit that, in its words, "even a child would have known that the strippers were topless and that sexual activity was being shown."