Willy Wonka experience organizer\u2019s life \u201cruined\u201d as friends & lover leave him Stuart Sinclair\/FacebookThe organiser and founder of the Willy Wonka Glasgow experience has claimed backlash to the event ruined his life, and caused him to lose friends and his lover. Organizer Billy Coull, director of House of Illuminati who hosted the event, described the hate he received ever since the Glasgow event went viral earlier in February this year. The Willy Wonka experience was widely slammed for false advertising, with The Guardian reporting that the experience consisted of a\u201d sparsely decorated warehouse with a scattering of plastic props, a small bouncy castle, and some backdrops pinned against the walls.\u201d The event quickly went viral on Twitter, with many people commenting on the lackluster props and the AI-generated storyline. It also emerged that Coull was the publisher of 16 AI-generated books, which he sold on Amazon last summer. In an interview with Channel 5 as part of their documentary on the event, Coull said that his life was \u201cruined\u201d by backlash to it. \u201cI have lost my friends. I\u2019ve lost the love of my life. I was made out to be the face of all evil. And genuinely, that\u2019s really not the case.\u201d He also claimed that the original event was planned within a smaller venue and needed projection equipment which never arrived. \u201c\u201dI was sick to the pit of my tummy. I was hoping for an event that would be joyful, happy. I wanted people to experience happiness.\u201d Coull also said he received hundreds of hate-filled messages after the event went viral, and that \u201cthe last thing I wanted to see was children to be upset.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Willy Wonka experience organizer\u2019s life \u201cruined\u201d as friends & lover leave him Stuart Sinclair\/FacebookThe organiser and founder of the Willy Wonka Glasgow experience has claimed backlash to the event ruined his life, and caused him to lose friends and his lover. Organizer Billy Coull, director of House of Illuminati who hosted the event, described the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}