Well, at least they got the WONK part right!
Guests reportedly paid £35 (about $45) to get to the ‘WILLY WONKA EXHIBIT’, but once inside, there wasn’t much for them to enjoy. Photos from the event show a sparsely decorated room with almost nothing that was promised in the seemingly AI-generated advertisements, which even contained several misspellings.
Some of the costumes were seemingly just as disastrous as the experience itself. Paterson felt her costume was “really cheaply made” and “so inappropriate” for a children’s event, according to Vulture.
Find more on the farcical event, with images and a video tour from inside after the jump!
The actress did not know what she was wearing until the day of the event, either. “I was like, ‘I don’t know if I actually want to do this.’ But I’d signed the contract, and part of me didn’t want to disappoint the kids going to this,” she explained.
Paterson tried to “make the best” of the situation, but it was difficult. At one point, she was giving out just three jelly beans per person while standing at the table that the internet described as looking like a meth lab.
Honestly… no wonder the cops had to step in.
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A PASADISE OF SWEET TEATS!
If after reading that totally fake AI generated crap, with all of those spelling errors and messed-up images, and still said, yeah, I’ll plop down $40, then you deserved to be ripped off.