It was meant to be a magical, chocolate-filled, immersive journey into “pure imagination.”
Instead, the much-hyped Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Experience in Glasgow, Scotland, last weekend left children in tears, parents demanding refunds and social media in stitches, as photos, videos and memes from the event went viral.
In a series of TikTok videos, Paul Connell, the actor hired to play Willy Wonka at the event organized by the London-based House of Illuminati, said he felt for anyone who bought tickets to the “fiasco.” His job had been to recite from a 15-page script sent to him that he called “AI-generated gibberish.”
“People were expecting a magical chocolate experience,
