A Willy Wonka-themed immersive event has attracted attention for all the wrong reasons. Police got called to the underwhelming event, which organizers soon shut down. One actor said the script was "15 ...

The viral 16-year-old star of the doomed Willy Wonka experience has secured new role at the London Dungeon, after a botched AI script meant she was cast as an invented chocolate factory villain.

Connell played Willy Wonka for three and a half hours straight, despite being told he would get a 15-minute break every 45 minutes. “I was losing my mind by that point," he said.

The organiser of the Willy Wonka Experience has spoken for the first time about how the viral reaction to the event has “ruined his life”. Read More: ‘Wonka’ review: Timothée Chalamet ...

Going off-script Part of what made the whole event so ludicrous was that so little of it was based on any Willy Wonka film or any of Roald Dahl’s original book.

Later, Paul Connell, one of the actors hired to impersonate Willy Wonka, revealed more about how the disastrous event unfolded. “The script was 15 pages of AI-generated gibberish of me just ...

Instead, the much-hyped Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Experience in Glasgow, Scotland, left children in tears, parents demanding refunds and the internet in stitches.

In the ‘Willy Wonka experience’ script, the villainous chocolate maker is called The Unknown, and he ‘lives in the walls.’ AI is often depicted in the same way – chillingly omnipresent, but with ...

The internet latched on to 16-year-old Felicia Dawkins’ performance as The Unknown at a shambolic Willy Wonka-inspired event. This weekend, she’s heading to a bigger and scarier stage in London.