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  • 2022-01-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Did 'Gold Rush' Cast Admit the Show Is Fake? (en)
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  • In January 2022, an online advertisement teased a photograph of Gold Rush cast member Parker Schnabel, hinting that he or another cast member admitted that the show is fake. This was perhaps what led some Google users to search for if Gold Rush is real. We soon found that the ad was misleading. The TV show debuted on the Discovery Channel in 2010 under the initial title, Gold Rush: Alaska. For readers unfamiliar with what Gold Rush is about, the official website provided the following synopsis: Gold Rush was in its 12th season at the time when the ad showed up with Schnabel's photograph and the claim that the cast purportedly admitted that the show was fake. The ad with Schnabel's picture read: [Pics] The Cast Finally Admit That the Show Is Fake. After clicking the ad, we were led to a lengthy slideshow article with the headline: 40 Popular Reality Shows That Are Far From Real. However, nowhere in the lengthy article did it mention Schnabel or Gold Rush. It was nothing but misleading clickbait. While the ad and its resulting article were both misleading, we did locate a potentially relevant interview with one person who was once a part of the Gold Rush cast. According to IMDb, former Gold Rush cast member Jimmy Dorsey only appeared in six episodes near the beginning of the show's run, back in 2010 and 2011. (It's unclear if this episode count on IMDb was accurate.) In 2016, at least two online articles cherry-picked parts of an answer from an old interview with Dorsey. For example, one headline read, 'Gold Rush' Is Fake, According To Former Cast Member. Another article said that the show's fakery was exposed. The original interview cited by these stories was published in March 2011 by OregonGold.net. Here's Dorsey's full answer: While Dorsey did claim that his departure from the show was planned and that various aspects of the episodes were scripted, nowhere in his answer did he say that Discovery's Gold Rush series is fake. Perhaps most important to the show's draw was the question of whether the discoveries made while mining for gold were real. Dorsey said nothing about the mining aspect of the show being fake. Instead, he did the opposite by answering several questions that appeared to shed light on just how real the mining process purportedly is on Gold Rush. Further, the two aforementioned articles that had sensationalized headlines appeared to cherry-pick from Dorsey's answer. Both stories omitted the portion where he mentioned he was physically assaulted on the set. Dorsey said that it ended with his ribs being broken. The stories also omitted that the show's crew allowed the cast to choose the footsteps for how various aspects of the episodes played out. As for Schnabel, who was pictured in the misleading ad, we were unable to find where he ever said that Gold Rush was fake. For all of these reasons, we have rated the claim as Mostly False. (en)
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