The former Waterstones employee made headlines with his fake reality series
sounds like something out of a movie. By the age of 25, the Waterstones employee was at the centre of a highly-publicised scandal, after masquerading as a TV producer and convincing a group of 30 hopefuls to audition for a reality show of his own invention., the documentary is set to capture the real-life consequences of Nikita's Russian's scheme, while hearing from those involved – as well as the man himself.
As it turned out, Nikita was not a TV producer, and had instead been working part-time at Waterstones in Piccadilly. Adding to the deceit, the so-called members of his production team were fictitious, there was no cash prize, and the show had never even been commissioned.Nikita was actually a Waterstones employee who had been masquerading as a TV producer
Reflecting on the 2002 debacle, Nikita explained that he is remorseful, and has been working on himself. "It's forced me to look at who I am now, compared with who I was. I'm no longer that person and that is deeply encouraging. Because that person didn't work," he said.According to the father-of-two, however, he'd never had any "conspiratorial or malicious or malevolent" intentions while setting up the reality show.
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