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He gave Sidney Lee his name and his TV debut: 'You could see right away that there was TV in him' | BT Film, TV and Streaming - www.bt.dk »I got what it takes!« It sounded so confident from Sidney Lee when he first hit the screen in the DR2 series 'Blood, sweat and jumping skulls' fifteen years ago. But the documentary that gave him the TV debut and the wrestler name Sidney Lee, during which he later made a glorious reality career, should not have had him at all, says Rasmus Ladefoged. Rasmus Ladefoged is program manager for Mainland Aarhus, the production company Metronome's Aarhus branch, but at the time fifteen years ago he was DR editor of 'Blood, sweat and jumping skulls'. Rasmus Ladefoged is today program manager for the production company Metronome's Aarhus department called Mainland Aarhus. But 15 years ago, he was the DR editor and helped make Sidney Lee his TV debut. Here he went and lacked a beginner who could help viewers into the universe around the wrestler group Danish Pro Wrestling, which the documentary followed in their attempt to spread the American show sport. "We were with them for a show in Langå Idrætscenter, and here a guy comes to the after-meeting with the organizers and tells them that he was very passionate about wrestling and would like to start it," says Rasmus Ladefoged. "And he looks like a wrestler, that's the first thing I think about - he's a buff, and he's brown, he's wearing a cowboy vest, bare arms, a bandana, an inverted cap, pierced cowboy pants, and long hair." Fortunately, Sidney Lee was not difficult to persuade to be filmed. Sidney Lee with long hair and her signature bandana. Heavy metal and wrestling were two big passions of the late reality star, and that made him perfect for his TV breakthrough in the DR2 documentary 'Blood, Sweat and Jumping Skulls'. But it was Rasmus Ladefoged's impression that the young guy, who had been taken all the way from Copenhagen to see a wrestling show, would still have started wrestling regardless. »30 seconds go by, and then you can feel that here is an exciting person. Here is an extremely passionate guy who knows an insane amount about wrestling, and so at the same time is just colorful, funny and wild. You want to be in his company. ”Sidney Lee quickly became a leading figure in the documentary series. “You could see right away that there was TV in him. He talked funny and in one liners, and then he was just an exciting person who was extremely passionate about some very specific things that you were touched to hear him talk about: wrestling, fighting games, movies and heavy metal, " tells the documentary editor, who, among other things, was impressed that Sidney Lee could name all the Oscar winners since the 70s. Sidney Lee has passed away, 43 years old. He died Monday in police custody, but the circumstances surrounding his death have not yet been made public. After Sidney Lee's death on Monday, many have talked about the duality in him. There was the character he provoked for the sake of the TV viewers, and saw the somewhat more casual version behind the camera. However, the former DR editor did not see the big difference between Sidney Lee in front of and behind the camera when they recorded 'Blood, Sweat and Skulls' back in 2007. "This was the first thing he did, and it was a documentary series and not a reality show. So there was no radical difference between when we recorded and when we did not. That of screwing up the personality came to later. But everyone who is on TV thinks about how they behave. And I could still recognize him - that's how he was. He lived in this colorful American world. ”Sidney Lee in her old apartment in Vanløse on the balcony with the cat Pussy - with whom she also became acquainted in 'Blood, sweat and jumping skulls'. Rasmus Ladefoged also remembers Sidney Lee as a person who could be both wild and passionate and at the same time completely down to earth. “He was really a special person. It was not a bad thing for him, and he did not have it easy during the filming, because he really got beaten up. But he always took it with an upright forehead, and I never heard him say anything bad about anyone, "says the program manager. "We have not had contact since, but he is really one to remember. His death has affected all of us who made the show at the time. three judges - including the front lady Karina von d'Ahe - and sent home one by one. Sidney Lee for the Reality Awards 2021. Sidney Lee turned 43 years old. He died on Monday 16 May 2022 in police custody, but the circumstances surrounding his death have not yet become known to the public. And since then, TV viewers have not let go of the tanned Copenhagener in the bandana. In the fifteen consecutive years leading up to his death, Sidney Lee managed to appear in about 50 programs - and to create iconic TV moments, such as when he served Knorr lasagne and Cult shakers for his dates in the breakthrough program 'Single Life', or when he 'Divas in the Jungle' started out by pulling on best divamans. So even though Rasmus Ladefoged was the first to see Sidney Lee's talent for television, he will not be credited with the glorious television career that followed. ‘I think Sidney would have been found anyway. He was just a really good guy who had some very specific passions and a personality that suited well to big arm movements on TV, ”concludes the production company manager. 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