Looking through my comments this morning, I found this. It links back to this post:

Dear Critics in Arms,

I was so sorry to read all of the negative responses to my performance as the "food critic" on the TV series "Kitchen Nightmares."

As many of you have pointed out, no real food critic would go on national television to review a restaurant.

As a new editor at Dan's Papers, I was sent, along with the rest of the Editorial staff, to have fun, put on a show and get a humorous story for the paper that week.

Once the cameras were rolling, my job as an actress was to deliver my performance exactly as the producers and director instructed.

The resulting "review" and the story by my colleague about our experience on "Kitchen Nightmares" was meant to give our readers a taste of what it is like to be on reality TV.

My review of the food, however, was written in the spirit of my character on the show, as the producers of "Kitchen Nightmares" had requested it for use on the program.

I apologize if I have become the unlikely poster girl for food criticism; that certainly was not my intent when I agreed to join the cast of the show. Although I am an aspiring environmental and scientific journalist, I am not a food critic and have never written a serious, blind review of any restaurant.

As anyone in the entertainment business will tell you, "reality" TV is simply an exercise in improvisational acting. The "reality" aspect is imparted by using unknown actors and laymen and by creatively editing many hours of footage to look like a seamless whole.