Mr. Beast and Amazon are being sued by participants in the reality show – news Culture and entertainment

The lawsuit is filed by five of the participants in the competition reality show, who believe they were treated badly during the recording, and that they were, among other things, exposed to sexual harassment, writes Variety. According to the lawsuit, the participants should not receive minimum wage or be paid for overtime. In addition, they must have become unaware of dangerous situations and did not get enough breaks to eat and rest. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles on Monday. – Although the participants knew that they were facing a potentially long and challenging competition when they signed the contract, they have had to go through far more than they had expected, write the lawyers in the paper. Several of the participants must also have been sent to hospital during the recording, writes Deadline. Even before season one of “Beast Games” has been published, the recording of season two is underway in Toronto. The picture was taken in connection with the rigging of the set at the end of August this year. Photo: Paige Taylor White / Zuma Press Over 1,000 participants Jimmy Donaldson, best known as Mr. Beast, with well over 300 million followers, is one of the world’s biggest YouTubers. He is known for organizing competitions with large cash prizes, and for creating events where the money goes to good causes. He has also made his own chocolate, and has his own hamburger chain. In March this year, it became known that he had teamed up with Amazon to create “Beast Games” for the streaming service Prime Video. In the competition, over 1,000 participants will go through several elimination competitions in the battle for 5 million dollars in cash, which will be the highest single cash prize in television history. The program is planned to be launched later in the autumn or in the new year next year. I regret what happened. Several of the details in the lawsuit are basically known from before. In August, the New York Times published a story in which they had spoken to several of the participants. Despite the fact that they had signed a contract stating that there could be extreme situations, one of the participants believes the newspaper has spoken to them that the recording was something other than what they had signed up for. – We sign up for a show. We do not sign up not to get food or drink, or not to be treated as human beings. A representative for Mr. Beast apologized to Deadline for what had happened, and that they should make sure it didn’t happen again. – The recording did not turn out as we had thought, due, among other things, to computer problems, extreme weather and other logistical and communication problems. After the lawsuit became known, Deadline has tried to get comments from both Donaldson and Amazon, but none of them have so far responded, write the website. Published 18.09.2024, at 13.07



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