Don’t expect to hear Lori Loughlin’s or Felicity Huffman’s names in the Lifetime film based on the true-life events of the college admissions scandal.
Lifetime aired “The College Admissions Scandal” film over the weekend, and many viewers noticed that it did not reference the real-life celebrity moments included in the scandal.
The film’s director, Adam Salky, told Fox News that he wanted to avoid using the families of the real names.
“The film is not about any of the real families,” Salky told Los Angeles Magazine. “We looked at all the families involved and we kind of said to ourselves, ‘What kind of people were part of this? There were people connected to Rick (Singer), people who want the kids to go to those kinds of schools, people who had a certain socioeconomic level,’ and we really actually tried to avoid any similarities to anyone specific with regards to the families. But Rick Singer is a real character in our film.”
The film focuses on the fiction interior designer Caroline and single mother Bethany who pay a real-life scam artist money to help their children get into college.
The film references William “Rick” Singer, who was the real-life mastermind in the college admissions scandal. Singer’s character is dramatized in the film.
Loughlin and Huffman don’t make an appearance nor are named in the film. However, according to Fox News, they are alluded to in the production.
Lifetime dropped the first trailer for the film in September, as reported by the Deseret News.