FED: Peruvian TV shows slammed by ombudsman

AAP General News (Australia)
12-04-1999
FED: Peruvian TV shows slammed by ombudsman

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Peru's ombudsman has slammed two popular television talk shows for daring audience
members to do anything for money, including licking dirty armpits and lying in frogs'
urine.

The two competing shows, Laura on America and Maritere, broadcast the controversial
programs last weekend, paying participants $A30 to $A60 for taking up the challenge which
provoked an outcry from the public and politicians.

Some of the challenges accomplished include:

- a woman licking the armpits and feet of a sweaty, half-naked man.

- Two scantily-clad women lying in a pool of frogs' urine.

- A man dressed in feathers eating bird feed.

For $20, one man covered his head in cockroaches and another, elderly man rode a tricycle
around the television studio naked apart from a baby's nappy.

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