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"Storage Wars" Dave Hester sues show...calls it a fraud
heheh....Nice try Dave....as if we didnt know already......
http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/a-ca...y-cast-member/ Storage Wars star Dave Hester today sued A&E and the producers of the reality show, calling it a staged “fraud on the public”. Represented by attorney Marty Singer in his suit (read it here), Hester is seeking more than $750,000 in damages and fees from the network and Original Productions for their actions and for firing him from the show. “When Plaintiff David Hester (“Hester”) complained to producers that A&E’s fraudulent conduct of salting and staging the storage lockers was possibly illegal, he was fired from the Series. As further evidence of Defendants’ outrageous conduct, they purported to rescind their written exercise of an option retaining Hester’s services this coming season,” says the 14-page complaint, which is suing for wrongful termination, breach of contract, breach of good faith and fair dealing, unfair business practices and declaratory relief. Reality shows are often accused of sleight-of-hand manipulation of events, contestants and other participants, but Hester’s suit tarnishes Storage Wars almost from top to bottom. “Nearly every aspect of the Series is faked, even down to the plastic surgery that one of the female cast members underwent in order to create more “sex appeal” for the show, the cost of which was paid for by Original,” the suit claims. “Original regularly ‘salts’ the storage lockers that are the subject of the auctions portrayed on the Series with valuable or unusual items to add dramatic effect, even going so far as to stage entire storage units. Original also manipulates the outcome of certain auctions by paying for storage units on behalf of the weaker cast members who lack the both the skill and financial wherewithal to place winning bids,” it adds. Hester is seeking a jury trial. Now in its third season, the highly rated Storage Wars pits buyers against one another for contents of abandoned storage lockers. Known as “the Mogul,” Hester has been one of the seven main participants on the show since it debuted in 2010. The second half of Storage Wars’ latest season began last week. |
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12-11-2012, 07:24 PM | #16 |
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She's kind of dumb too. That's a plus
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12-11-2012, 07:26 PM | #17 |
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What do we got here, a busted toaster that's 40 or 50 bucks, an old 25 inch TV, that's a hundred bucks, and holy shit! A box full of gold doubloons!
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12-11-2012, 07:28 PM | #18 |
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I am exceedingly proud to say that I haven't watched 5 minutes of any reality show in over 3 years. The only one that might disqualify the afore mentioned claim is Mythbusters. I haven't watched that show in over a year. Every one of them is shit and gives people cancer.
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12-11-2012, 07:28 PM | #19 |
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Just don't tell me American Pickers is a fraud that will break my heart
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12-11-2012, 07:29 PM | #20 |
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12-11-2012, 07:39 PM | #22 |
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They should make a reality show about people who watch reality shows.
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12-11-2012, 07:42 PM | #23 |
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12-11-2012, 07:43 PM | #24 |
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I hope he loses, stupid lawsuit and he was a prick in the show, doubt he is much different in life seeing this..
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12-11-2012, 07:47 PM | #25 |
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Never seen it, but I figured that show is just as fake as the shows about the pawn shops, moonshiners, repo men, etc.
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Duh it's fake lol still an ok show. Hester is a pussy and a bit**! Never liked him. Shove his YUUUP up his fat ass
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12-11-2012, 07:58 PM | #27 |
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Duh its a fraud. I was approached for another one of these "reality" shows several times to be one of their "experts" for the show. However, the real job of the "expert" is solely to find interesting items to have brought in to enhance the item selection used in the show.
So I turned it down - 3 times.
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12-11-2012, 08:00 PM | #28 |
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12-11-2012, 08:01 PM | #29 |
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80 percent of the time no no locker has anything interesting. Once in a while they strike on something cool.
If this shit is as fraud as they say it is, then these storage units would have alot more cool shit inside. MOst of the time its all junk. I know its frauded to some degree and its for TV, just like i said above. alot of the shit is crap |
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