Tampabay.com
APRIL 14, 2008

Reality television show contestants say they were held against their will

APOPKA -- Eight young women moved into an Apopka house about two months ago with dreams of making it big on a realty show called Pauper to Princess, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The show's producers promised to help them grow mentally and physically, taking them to cultural events and providing etiquette lessons. Now, four of the contestants claim they were held against their will by the show's director. According to a police report, the women forced their way out of the house on Saturday, with help from a male friend of of the women. Police arrested the director, Marc Brilleman, 33, on a charge of false imprisonment.  One participant, Alisha Waizmann, 23, refused to give details on what happened until she consults a lawyer. "All I can say is that we were not involved in any sort of sex scandal," Waizmann told the newspaper. "There are a lot of issues involved in it and a lot of schemes and scandalous stuff."

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