30,000 was dismissed from dating site for being too ugly
A dating website that only allows "beautiful" members has had to apologise to tens of thousands of "ugly" people who were accepted by mistake. Last month the screening process was sabotaged by a Shrek virus, meaning anyone was allowed to join, regardless of their looks. The site's owners have now issued an apology to the 30,000 "unfortunate" people who were "wrongly admitted" to the site. They have subsequently been banished. "We have sincere regret for the unfortunate people who were wrongly admitted to the site and who believed, albeit for a short while, that they were beautiful," managing director Greg Hodge said. "It must be a bitter pill to swallow, but better to have had a slice of heaven then never to have tasted it at all." BeautifulPeople.com usually requires those looking for love to pass a strict "rating" stage where existing users vote on whether someone is a...