The British show saw six 'typical lads' enter a dating contest to woo Mexican model Miriam Rivera for a £10,000 prize and romantic yacht trip. 20 years on, FEMAIL reveals what happened next.
Miriam Rivera was the 'world's first transgender reality TV star' and her death aged just 38 in 2019 in Hermosillo, Mexico, remains shrouded in mystery.
‘Cruelty television.” That’s how Dr Gareth Smith, among the few psychiatrists working with trans issues at the time, described the most talked-about reality series of 2004. He’s not wrong. When Dr Smith received a call to assist in the making of Sky One’s There’s Something About Miriam, the show was already approaching its notorious finale. You’ll no doubt remember the details.
The 2003 Sky1 British reality series 'There's Something About Miriam' flew six contestants to Ibiza, with the aim of wooing the stunning Mexican model Miriam Rivera.
In 2019, Miriam Rivera was found dead in Mexico in a suspected suicide - but theories and conspiracies surrounding the reality star and model's mysterious death remain ever-present.
Transgender reality star Miriam Rivera wasn’t the only victim exploited in the controversial reality show There’s Something About Miriam. As featured on Channel 4's Miriam: Death of Reality Star, the six men who signed up to take part were also left reeling
The chair of Ofcom has complained about today’s television but his generation were the ones who first gave us cruelty as entertainment, writes Roisin Lanigan