You Won’t Believe This joins Hunted (Channel 4) and The Heist (Sky) in a new sub-genre of gameshows where contestants must outwit retired mainstays of Britain’s law enforcement elite: extensively trained professionals who used to trap the country’s sneakiest criminals, and who are now forging careers as pretend showbiz sleuths. Pick a liar and the liar wins the five grand. If a fifth contestant, who hears all the stories, can then identify which one isn’t a lie, they win £5,000. Only one of these people is telling the truth. Punters arrive in groups of four, each of them obliged to tell a personal story on a particular theme, the first one being: “I opted out of civilisation.” Someone explains how they once joined a cult, then rival participants spin tales about the time they took a vow of silence for a year in a Spanish monastery, the time they lived for a week as a goat in the Alps, and the time they left home to reside in an underground bunker due to their fear of nuclear Armageddon. Would it, Channel 4 wonders, perhaps work not as a panel game but a gameshow, without the famous people and with members of the public lying to win a cash prize instead? And we have the answer, as Channel 4 has gone ahead and made that programme and called it You Won’t Believe This: no. ![]() It is a hit, which means it must be imitated. International Day of People with Disability.Would I Lie to You on BBC One – a great show! Everyone loves it: the concept of outrageous yarns that may or may not be true lets celebrities display gifts for comic timing and talking off the cuff that we never knew they had. When I think about what I’ve achieved over the last two decades, I really am amazed. I would never for a second wish my disability away because it has given me so much purpose. When you’ve got people who have diverse experiences and who are natural problem-solvers, they make great leaders. The disability community is incredibly diverse. I know in some parts of the education system, there would be a 14-year-old Aboriginal child who’s being told, you can’t cut it. If you make things easier for people with disability, you make it easier for everybody. Everyone’s experience with disability is unique. Get rid of every assumption that it is about disability. ![]() If we were all uniform, the world would not be an interesting place. It’s really about embracing what you’re good at. The biggest thing is seeing that we have so many young people who I think are going to continue making the disability space much more inclusive and that gives me so much hope. The main reason why I wanted to become an ambassador is to not only inspire people that live with a invisible disability, but to also inspire many young people around the nation. Proud of my Worimi heritage, but also proud of being a deaf person. I think it’s time really for us to actually take our power back, to be given the resources that we need, and to design the solutions ourselves. So what drives me in having these intersecting identities is the ability to start the conversation and to continue the conversation. What’s missing is people like me, talking about experiences and solutions to our experiences and our problems and issues, together. I am hoping that this opportunity will shed some light on the integration of the disability-enabled community and especially our rights to have mainstream relationships. There are still very real stigmas joined to this group. Financial freedom, financial security, a loving partner to share my life with. I want the same things as everybody else. I need to speak up about these things, because they don’t only affect me, but I see how it affects my communities.Īs a society, we have to accommodate for all kinds of people, whether we’re neurodiverse or not. ![]() The biggest challenge is not really seeing both of those communities represented authentically. My cultural background or the fact that I live with a disability are equally as important as the other. Just treat us how we treat you: not different or special. You can treat us like people, like just everyday, ordinary people. There are some things that everybody can do to help support the disability community. One thing that I would love to shape about society, I think it would be creating a world where people’s differences and unique needs and abilities were accepted and catered for.ĭisability can be such an incredible strength.
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