Ugly Betty in Second Life?

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First a disclaimer, I am not a Ugly Betty fan, all my knowledge of the show is from my wife who is a fan! Now we have got that straight we can continue.

So taking the lead from AK’s post about the recent entry of ‘The Office’ into Second Life, one of Dwight’s favorite places in Second Life was listed as The Griffin Business Center, which appears to be a place people can rent for meetings etc.

There appears to be some advertising in there for ‘MODE Modeling and Designing Agency’, in the form of a poster. If you click on the poster you get a notecard from someone called Wilamina Laville asking for SL models. Now for those that are fan’s of Ugly Betty will recognize MODE as the fictional agency that Betty works at, with Wilamina being a character in the show who is one of the ‘bosses’ of said agency.

SL Ugly Betty

This may be nothing more than a Ugly Betty fans’ SL shrine to the show, or it could be the start of another SL – TV Show tie in. Who knows!?! There deffo seems to be a few happening recently, all from various US networks, maybe it’s a case of lots of bandwagon jumping, which is a good thing for the population of SL, even if it does leave me scratching my head on what’s in it for the TV show concerned!

4 Responses to “Ugly Betty in Second Life?”

  1. Steven Livingstone Says:
    October 31st, 2007 at 12:24 pm

    My wife is also a fan. I do wonder as these kinds of things spring up how they will manage the contracts geographically. Will one half know what happens next and how would you know if it’s one virtual environment?

    Reminds me of the news at 10 – “If you don’t want to know the score look away now” – but then talks out the scores anyway!

  2. mrben Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 9:29 am

    There’s also a big Browncoat (Firefly/Serenity fan) community in SL – check out “Washtown” (the crappy little town where Wash is a hero) which has regular meetups, and includes a complete model of Serenity for you to walk round.

  3. Mark Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 12:04 pm

    OK, after some more digging it seems this is not a Ugly Betty SL campaign, it seems that someone who is obviously a fan has named some things after the show.

    I asked one of the owners of the Griffin Business Center and they confirmed this.

  4. ? Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 11:30 am

    I am or should say, WAS Wilamina Laville in Secondlife. After some random searching on google, I am shocked to see that this web page has been made up about my silly little Modelling Agency, that I can tell you was not any success at all. However, I did make a few thosuand linden,( under 10 – 15 dollars )But am very pleased to see that someone has taken intrest into my failure :)

    I was accused of scamming when I found it difficult to get work for my clients, and after being accused of trying to fake being a much bigger Modelling agency in SL and apparently also RL, I was forced to close down. Wilamina Laville does no longer in secondlife. But I can tell you it was entirly based in ‘Ugly Betty’.

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