Today’s weasel of the day is an anonymous TV3 spokeswoman. Before I explain why she is our weasel of the day let me first run a couple of analogies past you all.
- Yes, I asked her to marry me BUT there was “no guarantee” that I would have gone ahead with the wedding if she had said yes.
- Yes, I asked him for a bite of his sandwich BUT there was “no guarantee” that I would have bitten it and swallowed if he had said yes.
What both of those examples have in common is the reasonable assumption that if you ask a person to do something then you…
A) want them to say yes
and
B) intend to go ahead with it if they say yes.
When a producer contacted BFD writer Cam Slater via text to ask him if he would go on Dancing with the Stars why on earth would he ask if he didn’t want him to go on Dancing with the Stars?
Former Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater says producers for Dancing with the Stars were keen to get him on this season of the reality competition.
In a post to his new blog, Slater said he received a text from a producer of the Three show which surprised him so much he “nearly ran off the road”.
He said the text invited him to call back, so they could talk about his possible involvement in the competition. “We think that you might really enjoy being part of the cast this year and of course it has a wonderful charity aspect to it,” the text reportedly said.
But a Three spokeswoman said that although a producer contacted Slater, there was “no guarantee” he would have appeared on the programme.
“Our team reaches out to a broad and diverse range of well known Kiwis to gauge interest. This was a very early expression of interest only,” she said.
What a Weasel! That response tells me one of two things. You decide which one is the most likely.
1.) Their intention was to get him to say yes so they could do a Hannah Tamaki on him and thereby use the controversy as free promotion of their show.
Last year, Dancing with the Stars hit the headlines for inviting Destiny Church leader Hannah Tamaki to compete on the programme. That decision led to an open revolt from within Three, with staff such as Kanoa Lloyd speaking out publicly against the decision.
Tamaki never made it to the programme, with the network changing its mind and the season then being cancelled due to Covid-19.
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2. They invite people who they have no interest in having on the show just to waste their time.