It was billed as 'the place where chocolate dreams become reality' but became a worldwide sensation when the reality emerged.
BBC Scotland NewsThe website for "Willy's Chocolate Experience" - held in Glasgow last weekend - featured vivid images of sweetie-themed fantasy worlds.
He was flanked by security staff as he tried to placate angry parents outside the venue, with one woman accusing him of having "scammed children".He promised them that full refunds would be processed shortly, and has admitted that AI was used to generate much of the marketing for the event He later publicly defended his integrity when some questioned on social media what would happen to all of the toys that had been donated to the event before its cancellation.: "Even though there are people putting a question mark over what we do, the people who matter to us support us and their support shows how well we are trusted by the community.
Last summer an author with the same name self-published 17 novels that were listed on Amazon, with one of them - Operation Inoculation - described as a "conspiratorial journey into vaccination truths". Paul Connell, who played Willy McDuff, a character seemingly based on Wonka, told BBC Scotland News he was handed "15 pages of AI-generated gibberish" as a script but tried to make the best of it despite things turning "scary" as people became angry.
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