"It breaks my heart to find myself within the cesspool of reality TV shows."

Peter Funt, the host of "Candid Camera" and son of the original host Allen Funt. Last year at an Arizona airport security checkpoint he tricked an unwitting participant into laying on a conveyor belt and passing through an X-ray machine. The man came out the other side bruised, bloody and humiliated. His concern for the reality TV cesspool aside, Funt exhibited little sympathy for this poor bloke: "We accidentally hurt somebody," he said. "I was relieved that it wasn't worse and upset that it happened at all. We turned it over to our insurance company. He was offered a token amount, a few thousand dollars, and he turned it down."

Funt then returned for another swim in the cesspool.

Story from the NYT.