http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/19/1084917637363.html
By Debi Enker
May 20, 2004
The latest bar-lowering exercise comes from Endemol, the Dutch reality TV factory that gave the world Big Brother. Its British offshoot, Brighter Pictures, dreamed up a cruel variation on a dating game. The producers of There's Something about Miriam placed newspaper ads soliciting for men who wanted to participate in "the sexual adventure of a lifetime". Blokes who were "up for anything" were invited to apply. Six "prospective Romeos" were then spirited away to a villa in Spain (aka "seduction HQ") and required to compete for the hand of their Juliet, a Mexican model named Miriam. The winning contestant, the guy who triumphs in most of the physical challenges and impresses the lady, gets £10,000 ($A24,000) and a week on a luxury yacht with the "J-Lo lookalike who's got it all".
But there's the rub: Miriam indeed has it all, including breast implants, testicles and a penis. Miriam is a pre-operative transsexual. So the joke's on these poor blokes who are jumping through hoops to win the attention of a woman "who's no ordinary woman". The contestants, including a marine, a martial arts expert and a lifeguard, did volunteer for "the sexual adventure of a lifetime", but none of them signed on for this.