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Miriam: Death of a Reality Star review – as grubby as the cruel show that ruined her life

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By Jessica Taylor For Mailonline. Viewers have slammed an early noughties dating show which tricked six men into competing for the affections of a young model without knowing she was transgender as a Channel 4 documentary revisits the uncomfortable reality TV programme. The documentary explores how Miriam, rather than the show's producers, were demonised after the deception was uncovered - and how the young and hopeful model who wanted to find love and become famous later disappeared into the world of sex work and drugs, before her untimely death in As modern-day viewers look back on the dating show in the Channel 4 documentary, they have been left horrified by the premise of the programme and have accused the original production companies, and Sky, of 'throwing her under the bus'. Viewers of Channel 4 documentary Miriam: Death of a Reality Star have criticised dating show There's Something About Miriam pictured which aired on Sky1, for 'exploiting' the transgender model. One person wrote on X: 'I remember the TV show was vile, pure exploitation of her. Another said: 'The production company was fully aware of what would happen, considering shows at the time mocked anyone trans, they went ahead to compete with Channel 4 and Big Brother, so chucked Miriam and the lads under the bus for the views.

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There's Something About Miriam aired in and the insensitive reality dating show was nothing short of a complete disaster after the so-called 'twist' was uncovered. Of all the reality TV dating shows out there, one will forever be known as the most controversial and irredeemably exploitative. On the surface There's Something About Miriam - which ran on Sky One in - had the same format as other popular programmes. Six handsome British men were moved into an Ibizan villa to compete for the affections of a drop dead gorgeous woman. They had to do various tasks and take Mexican-born model Miriam Rivera, then 21, on dates. Week by week, she voted one man off after another until she whittled it down to a final suitor she could go on a luxury holiday with.

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Has TV learned nothing in the past 20 years? I t was, all in all, a moral quagmire of a TV format. Even before it aired, this British reality-dating show had whipped up a tabloid frenzy, fuelled by the news that the contestants who had wooed Rivera were mounting a legal challenge to stop the show from airing. Lawyers claimed their lack of informed consent equated to a conspiracy to commit sexual assault. Yet despite looking back disapprovingly, this three-part documentary attempts to have its cake sanctimonious dismay and eat it, too milking exactly the same tawdry titillation as the original did.

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