Lots of tears and $100,000 for a 30-year-old woman for correctly identifying birth father
Who’s Your Daddy?: woman’s bet on potential dad wins $100,000 at Fox show
Fox yesterday aired a 90 minute reality show "Who's Your Daddy?" The idea behind the program was simple to imagine but too difficult to implement: T.J. Myers, now a 30-year-old blonde woman, who was given up for adoption when she was just six weeks old, had to identify her biological father from seven pretenders.
Fox, sometimes referred to as “The Simpsons’ network”, informed the woman, someone’s daughter, that her dad was an one time champion disco dancer. Therefore T.J. Myers asked the potential dads the following questions: What two things would your friends say to describe you? Put them through moves on a dance floor.
The ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’ show even tried to establish its own catch phrase, when T.J. Myers had to eliminate contenders: "I feel like you could be my father," the woman told those who stayed.
No doubt "Who's Your Daddy?" was a big success. The program was fortunate to has combined all the elements of theatre performance and advanced TV reality show: burning candles; the woman watching the seven impostors on a hidden camera; her father standing in silhouette behind a door, his identity waiting to be revealed. Down to the final two potential dads, T.J. Myers asked both men why they had given her up. They both told her stories - the impostor even handed her a stuffed animal – but only one was the truth.
"T.J's father has a surprise that will blow her away!" Fox announcers said, building up the suspense. The real father was revealed and found to be a former Marine, but the real and ultimate surprise meeting her biological mother, her father’s old high school girlfriend, who’s no longer with her birth father, and three sisters – father’s three other daughters. T.J. Myers was awarded $100,000 for identifying her biological father.
"Thank you for having me!" the woman, who was given up for adoption when she was just six weeks old, said at the end of the show, which already has drawn protests from campaigners for child’s rights and adoption advocates.
