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The unpaid volunteers filling empty TV seats

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Because why pay people when desperation is free? Studio audiences are regularly padded with volunteers whose entire job is to look ecstatic on camera and instantly surrender their seat the second the actual assigned guest returns from the bathroom.

The unpaid volunteers filling empty TV seats
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