‘I used to be attractive Oompa Loompa at shambolic children occasion – I’ve nonetheless not been paid’

A girl paid to decorate like an Oompa Oompa at a “shambolic” Willy Wonka-themed children’ occasion claims she was given a “sexy” outfit for it.

As beforehand reported by the Daily Star, police have been known as to an occasion the place mother and father who forked out £35 a ticket for the “immersive experience” have been left fuming after they arrived at a near-empty warehouse with barely any decorations. Despite organisers promising a “paradise of sweet treats”, mother and father complained that their children have been solely given just a few jelly infants – and the entire expertise lasted only a few minutes.

Jenny Fogarty, 25, was employed as an Oompa Loompa, however solely obtained a 15-page “script” to study on the night earlier than the occasion. She stated her costume arrived simply an hour earlier than households entered the venue, and was shocked to see it was a “sexy'” model.

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She raged: “I didn’t get a costume until Saturday morning, about an hour before people started to arrive. I noticed that the costumes we were given – all of them were female, and we were given the sexy version as opposed to the traditional ones.

“Some folks had T-shirts beneath to offer it a bit extra modesty. I simply had a lacy shirt beneath. The wigs have been very low-cost. We have been simply handed an Amazon field that in all probability arrived that morning.”

Jenny and her fellow actors have been requested to improvise, however as they’d no rehearsal time, the occasion quickly fell aside. She stated: “It was shocking. It was embarrassing to be pretty honest. We were trying our best, all the actors, to make it work. But we were given just 12 hours to learn our script and told to just improvise. It’s not easy to improvise a whole show.”

Jenny stated she was supplied £16.66 an hour for her function within the occasion, however so far as she knew, not one of the solid had been paid. She additionally talked about that a few of these concerned within the manufacturing have been pressured to offer statements to police when officers arrived on Saturday.

She continued: “By the end, understandably, people were getting really annoyed. That’s when the security came up to me and told me they were shutting it down. When we went back to get to our cars, that’s when we saw the police had showed up. One of the actors who played a Wonka gave a statement to the police.”

House of Illuminati apologised for the “stressful and frustrating day” and introduced on its Facebook web page that it will refund attendees. They said: “Unfortunately last minute we were let down in many areas of our event and tried our best to continue on and push through and now realise we probably should have cancelled first thing this morning instead.

“We totally apologise for what has occurred and will probably be giving full refunds to every individual that bought tickets. “We planned a fabulous event and it just did not take shape as planned and for that we are truly sorry we are devastated at how this has turned out.”

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