Willy’s Chocolate Factory Experience: Wonka actor speaks out about “dangerous” and “heartbreaking” event

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Last night a new documentary exploring the planning and execution of the viral Glasgow Willy Wonka experience aired on Channel 5 which got many people talking.

Katcy Stephan After a disastrous Willy Wonka “immersive” experience in Glasgow set the internet ablaze, the fiasco is getting the musical satire treatment. The creative team behind “Willy Fest: A Musical Parody” includes Emmy nominee Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel and Oates, “Another Period”), Emmy winners Tova Litvin and Doug Rockwell (“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” “Julie & The Phantoms”), TikTok songwriter Daniel Mertzlufft (“Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” “Grumpy Monkey: The Musical”) and Broadway songwriters Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (“First Date,” ABC’s “Once Upon a Time”).

A team of top film, television and stage songwriters have joined forces to create a musical satire inspired by the recent, ill-fated Willy Wonka knockoff fiasco in Glasgow, Scotland that became a social media phenomenon.

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which went viral last month, was advertised as “a celebration of sweetness and imagination” that was inspired by the hit movie Wonka and the Roald Dahl book behind it. Outraged parents began demanding a refund shortly after it opened, describing it as a “farce” run by “cowboys”.The event’s organisers, House of Illuminati, decided to pull the plug just hours into its opening day.

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went viral on social media.Advertised as “a celebration of sweetness and imagination” that was inspired by the hit movie Wonka and the Roald Dahl book behind it, outraged parents began demanding a refund shortly after it opened, describing it as a “farce” run by “cowboys”. The event’s organisers, House of Illuminati, decided to pull the plug just hours into its opening day.Channel 5 have now confirmed to The Independent that they will be making a standalone documentary titled Willy Wonka: The Scandal That Rocked Britain.

An hour-long documentary about the disastrous Willy Wonka event in Glasgow is due to air on Channel 5.The scandal went viral on social media and has featured on several TV shows, including Good Morning Britain. Channel 5 has created a programme about the chaotic event, titled Wonka: The Scandal That Rocked Britain.The documentary will land on TV screens on Saturday, 16 March.

It wouldn't be truly World Book Day unless we spied adorable children in the cutest outfits - and this year was no different - and it wasn't just the kids getting involved either. Stars including Rochelle Humes and Kerry Katona were clearly up before their alarms this morning to help their sweet children get ready for a day of dressing up fun at school to celebrate some of the world's biggest stars. The Hitlist host Rochelle was first to share adorable pictures of her two youngest children, Valentina, six, and Blake, three dressed as very convincing Oompa Loompas from Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

taking the internet by a storm over the last week, was advertised as an immersive interaction, based on the movie Wonka.Willy’s Chocolate Experience was advertised as “a celebration of sweetness and imagination”, but members of the public were left sorely disappointed at the low-budget production and AI-generated script, causing the event to be shut down on the day it opened.Kirsty Paterson was an actor involved in the performance, playing one of Willy Wonka’s trusted servants, the Oompa-Loompas. She was hired for the event in Glasgow by the organisers, House of Illuminati, and was reportedly offered £500 for working two days of the event.As per a video posted on the official Cameo Instagram page, and a post on Paterson’s TikTok page, she is now taking requests for personalised video and audio messages for fans.That’s me on cameo! Ready to take on requests from your Scottish Oompa Loompa.

By now, you’ve likely seen the “Willy Wonka Experience” going viral throughout the Internet.

disastrous “Willy Wonka” experience in Glasgow shed her chrome-painted mask this past weekend to reveal how this role has changed her life. In a three-part TikTok series, the actress, whose name is Felicia, revealed that the role — which propelled her into the upper echelons of internet stardom — was her first ever paid acting gig. “So I was approached by the House of Illuminati and I was supposed to be cast as one of the Wonkas,” Felicia, 16, tells viewers while donning her iconic mask.

The biggest event disaster since the Fyre Festival concert fiasco has drawn a second apology from its promoters.

An actress who played an Oompa Loompa at a disastrous Willy Wonka event that went viral has revealed she wanted to walk out of the 'immersive' experience in Glasgow. The Oompa Loompa actress broke her silence about the widely-criticised Willy Wonka chocolate factory event as she appeared on Good Morning Britain on Friday alongside a fellow actress.The events company, which promised a world of pure imagination, has since cancelled the show after parents, who paid £35 a ticket, turned up to find a sparse warehouse.

Ja Rule did in the wake of the Fyre Festival, he also felt “hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray.”An actor hired to work at the recent, disastrous Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland feels his golden ticket was a scam.Paul Connell, who played the part of Wonka at “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” at the Box Hub Warehouse in Glasgow, said the viral event was an “absolute mess” and one of the “most embarrassing things” he’s ever seen, South West News Service reported.The calamity, which cost $45 a person, promised guests a “journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises” — but instead ended with kids in tears and furious parents.Guests arrived on Saturday, Feb. 24, to a “dirty,” near-empty warehouse — which Connell further described as a “health and safety nightmare” — with a printed AI background, a sad bouncy castle and lackluster props.There was also virtually no candy at the “Chocolate Experience,” and Connell said he was told to give kids one single jelly bean each and a quarter of a glass of lemonade upon arrival.Red-headed Connell admitted that an immediate “red flag” came when he was asked to portray Willy Wonka, rather than an Oompa Loompa — which he felt he better resembled.“The first red flag for me was when I was cast as Willy Wonka.

'Willy Wonka Gate' has taken over the internet this week following the disastrous immersive experience held in Glasgow.

Reneé Rapp has opened up about the “incredibly traumatic experience” of being drugged and assaulted in a hotel two years ago.The singer-songwriter and Mean Girls actor spoke about the ordeal during a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter.“I still feel like I’m sorting through those feelings,” she told the publication. “I do understand that it was an incredibly traumatic experience that I don’t remember at all. And it feels weird to talk about because I don’t remember it.”Rapp continued: “I just recently started to be like, ‘Wait, the people that let this happen to me suck’.