{"id":162380,"date":"2025-09-17T04:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/162380\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T04:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:35:03","slug":"love-is-blind-producers-netflix-sued-over-working-conditions-excess-booze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/162380\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Love Is Blind’ Producers & Netflix Sued Over Working Conditions, “Excess” Booze"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSome days it seems like Netflix<\/a>\u2018s Love Is Blind<\/a> is as big a hit with lawyers as it is with streaming audiences.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn yet another legal action<\/a> against the BTS shanaghans and alleged manipulations on the Kinetic Content<\/a>\u00a0and Delirium TV produced LIS, Season 7 contestant Stephen Richardson is taking the streamer and almost everyone else involved with several seasons of the American production of the self-described social experiment reality TV<\/a> series for a plethora of labor violations and excess. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn fact, Richardson, who was exposed as less than faithful to \u00a0short term fianc\u00e9 Monica Davis back in DC after the 2024 shown season was over isn\u2019t just going after the Ted Sarandos<\/a> co-run streamer and others for himself, he\u2019s proposing. sweep class action suit including those who were on \u201cincluding but not limited to seasons 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the series.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRead the potential Love Is Blind class action lawsuit here<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tPicking up on \u00a0National Labor Relations Board dings against LIB from last year, the Vora Law Firm of Santa Monica ,CA and the Wallace & Allen of Houston, TX represented Richardson (What? No Bryan Freedman?) claims \u201cDefendants willfully misclassified and upon information and belief continue to misclassify Plaintiff, the Class Members, and Aggrieved Employees, including those holding positions as \u2018Contestant,\u2019 \u2018Participant,\u2019 \u2018Cast Member,\u2019 and similar job titles (herein referred to as the \u2018Cast\u2019), as independent contractors.\u201d It goes on to exclaim this was a \u201csubstantial exercise of control over the manner, means, and timing of their work performed for Defendants\u2019 non-scripted content productions, including but not limited to the Netflix reality TV show, Love Is Blind.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSimilar to past suits by fellow LIB cast members Renee Poche<\/a> and Jeremy Hartwell, Ricahrdson in his LA Superior Court filed 9-claim complaint says Netflix and producers bound them up in NDAs and then played fast and loose with their reality for the benefit of reality TV Specifically, as we have heard before in many an unscripted suit, low paid contestants were wrapped up in a \u201ccombination of sleep deprivation, isolationl, ack of food, and an excess of alcohol all either required, enabled, or encouraged by Defendants contributed to inhumane working conditions and altered mental state for the Cast.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDefendants exercised substantial control over every aspect of the Cast\u2019s lives during production, including the Cast\u2019s time, access to food and drinks, sleeping arrangements, and contact with family and friends and other persons outside of production. Defendants did not allow the Cast to move or act of their own free will while the production took place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTainted as a heel in more ways than one, Richardson is looking for class certification from a judge and then a variety of damages over what he wasn\u2019t paid and the way he says he was treated. No actual proce tag is given in the jury trial desiring September 15 filed complaint, except to say \u201cthe amount demanded exceeds $35,000.00.\u201d Likely exceeds that by a lot. <\/p>\n

\n\tClearly we haven\u2019t heard this kind of stuff about LIB and other high hormone and low stakes reality TV shows (just as NBCUniversall\/Comcast<\/a>\u2018s in-house legal department). Clearly, we seen a number of these actions wither on the arbitration vine or get quickly settled. <\/p>\n

\n\tJust show we all have our eyes wide open, Netflix did not respond to Deadline\u2019s request for comment on Richardson\u2019s pay and production action. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some days it seems like Netflix\u2018s Love Is Blind is as big a hit with lawyers as it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[6969,88,98509,98510,16108,217,604,98511,77953,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-162380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-comcast","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-kinetic-content","11":"tag-love-is-blind","12":"tag-nbcuniversal","13":"tag-netflix","14":"tag-reality-tv","15":"tag-renee-poche","16":"tag-ted-sarandos","17":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}