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Star Power - Cancelled

Tue, 19 June 2007, 05:13 pm
who cares70 posts in thread
Hello everyone I am very disappointed to have to inform everyone that Star Power has been cancelled. This is due to the lack of entrants in the competition for this year. We are so very disappointed as we had the support of such amazing groups that would have offered training and workshops and opportunities for the youth of WA. I must say that when I kept receiving emails asking how people could get the auditions without having to do the training, I started to wonder at the youth of WA. I want to stress to everyone now that all entrants will be receiving their entry money back in the next week. ( For those narrow minded and petty people who thought that Star Power was trying to rip people off and went to the amazing lengths of having us investigated, well, the investigation found nothing, and you simply made us realise how many people out there don't understand that there really are people who are prepared to work for no financial reward at all in order to help others. The cancellation of the competition has cost us money.) It seems that the youth of WA are not interested in training and workshops and opportunities . It seems that the youth of WA want to have the rewards without the work. That is a very sad generalisation I know and I am very sorry for the people who did enter. We simply couldn't make it work on those numbers. I thank everyone at the ITA for their support , I thank the people who were helping us, I thank the entrants and I thank the people who saw this competition for what it was and wanted to do all they could to help. I am sorry that we couldn't make it happen. Kerri

The Minority

Thu, 21 June 2007, 10:34 am

I am sure I speak for all of us when I say we certainly do not think of "all WA Youth" in this same light. Even Tur'o. I am also certain that a few got overwhelmed in what you aptly called life, after all, that happens to the best of us.

What seems odd is that with the number of people asking for an opportunity such as this, it seems very odd and depressing that it should fail. Actually, I am begining to think that comments made in Kerrii's original posting might hold more to the truth.

Can it be that many out there felt this was too good to be true and therefore a scam? This is the curse of modern society I guess when there is so much cause for distrust.

Caution is good, don't get me wrong. This one is hard to figure out though. It seems that some took caution too far however conducting investigations and the like. It's sad really...

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Jeff Watkins
Perth based Actor/Performer
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