Beauty Queen Suing ABC, Disney For $100 Mil Claiming Wife Swap Ruined Her Life
Posted on Mar 23, 2010 @ 06:30AM - 9 comments
New York teenager Alicia Guastafarro said being portrayed as a pouting pageant princess on ABC's Wife Swap destroyed her life, and wants the network and Disney to cough up $100 million to make up for it.
RadarOnline.com has learned that Guastafarro, 18, is suing the show and its’ parent companies, claiming she was subject to "incessant verbal and physical assaults from her peers" after her appearance on the program, which focuses on the culture clash that ensues when two random families swap mothers.
EXCLUSIVE: Deputies Told To Watch Over Balloon Boy Dad In Prison
Posted on Jan 11, 2010 @ 03:11PM - 9 comments
Richard Heene, the mastermind behind the balloon boy hoax, may be in jail for his attention-getting antics but he can at least thank his notoriety for possibly keeping him out of harm’s way as he serves out his jail sentence. RadarOnline.com has been told that officials will be especially vigilant of Heene’s safety.
EXCLUSIVE: Balloon Boy’s Dad Lied About William Shatner Connection
Posted on Oct 19, 2009 @ 04:40PM - 6 comments
Star Trek’s William Shatner has shot-down UFO balloon hoaxer Richard Heene’s claims he was to go into business with him.
Heene - who is facing felony charges along with his wife Mayumi Heene in connection with the prank which falsely claimed his 6-year-old boy Falcon had taken-off in a home-made balloon – claimed to have once spoken with the star about hosting a show.
Balloon Boy’s Dad Has Spent Time Behind Bars
But Shatner told RadarOnline.com: “His story is overblown. He’s inflated the amount of contact we’ve had.”
Heene and his wife both appeared in the reality show Wife Swap after the pair originally met at an amateur theatre in Los Angeles.
PHOTOS: Balloon Boy’s Family On Wife Swap
The science fiction buff’s former video editor Vincent LeGrow confirmed that Heene had spoken with screen legend Shatner about a business venture.
Back in 2001 Heene produced an instructional video about turning cardboard boxes into forts for children.
Balloon Boy Family Could Face Bill Of Six Figures
“He was very ambitious and wanted to get some sort of show going,” said Vincent LeGrow, who edited actors’ reels for a small company Heene founded.
Heene was the co-host of a show called The Science Detectives, and sometimes said he was affiliated with the Science Detective Research Group, though few records exist for the company.
Balloon Boy’s Parents To Face Charges
Some of the Science Detectives segments now appear on YouTube, alongside Heene's theories about UFOs and civilization on Mars.
He told a Tennessee newspaper in 2006 that he had produced a tornado-chasing documentary and was seeking a TV distributor, and two years later, according to an entry in an academic journal, he was producing a different documentary about electromagnetic fields in storms.
Heene's projects never attracted measurable attention, but his propensity for chasing tornadoes and building flying saucers attracted the producers of Wife Swap who cast the family for two episodes, including one last March.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Balloon Boy’s Dad On Prank Reality TV Show
The production company behind Wife Swap, RDF, developed a standalone show about the Heenes at one point but it never went into production.
It’s understood that Heene was apparently pursuing a reality TV job as late as last month, when he signed up for an account on RealityWanted.com - a Web site that connects reality television casting agents and aspiring contestants.
EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: Inside ‘Balloon Boy’ Family Reality TV Show Pitch
Posted on Oct 16, 2009 @ 09:00PM - 37 comments
The Heene family balloon boy story has captivated the nation, and the rumors of it all being a hoax were fueled by little Falcon saying “You guys said that we did it for the show,” during a live interview on CNN Thursday.
EXCLUSIVE: Balloon Boy Family Could Face Bill Of Six Figures
Before the incident Richard Heene had pitched multiple production companies in the hopes of landing a reality show for his family and RadarOnline.com has the exclusive details of what they pitched, and why no one wanted to put them on TV.
PHOTOS: Balloon Boy Family On Wife Swap
“The Heene family was selling themselves as the show,” the source said. The family pitched the “antics” of the Heene family - the “outgoing” amateur weather-chasing Dad who is convinced in the existence of aliens and UFOs, and his wife and three “adorable” and “energetic” kids.
VIDEO: Balloon Boy Vomits On Live TV While Parents Defend Family
The Heene family has appeared in two episodes of Wife Swap, but our source said the pitch wasn’t going to get them their own show. “In these days of reality TV, many people believe their lives are of interest to TV viewers. Sadly, this is not the case with the Heenes.”
Balloon Boy Found Alive And Safe
RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned another reason the family won’t be on TV has to do with Dad Richard. “He has some real anger management issues,” said the source about Richard, and that isn’t something production companies thought would make for good TV.
TLC, the production company behind Jon & Kate Plus 8 told RadarOnline.com that they received the pitch from the Heenes, but were not interested. “They approached us months ago and we passed.”
LISTEN: Balloon Boy Frantic 911 Call
Posted on Oct 16, 2009 @ 12:11PM - 2 comments
This is the frantic 911 call made by six-year-old Falcon Heene's mom, Mayumi, Thursday.
Balloon Boy Found Alive And Safe
In the call a tearful Mayumi tells the operator her son is aboard a "flying saucer" and has been gone for about twenty minutes.
BREAKING NEWS: Balloon Boy Found Alive and Safe
Posted on Oct 15, 2009 @ 06:31PM - 21 comments
A six-year-old boy believed to have set off a large helium balloon on Thursday has been found safe and alive.
Six Year Old Not Found In Floating Balloon
Authorities said Falcon Heene was at home and hiding in the family’s attic the entire time the balloon was in flight. He is currently at home and is doing fine.
Rescue teams feared Heene may have fallen from a box that should have been attached to the bottom of the Mylar vessel. A sheriff’s deputy said on Thursday that he saw an object fall off the balloon.
People across the world watched Thursday as the homemade helium balloon soared 7,000 feet over eastern Colorado for more than an hour and a half.
The Heene Family on "Wife Swap"
Posted on Oct 15, 2009 @ 05:46PM - Add a comment
The Heene Family appeared on "Wife Swap".
VIDEO: Missing Balloon Boy's Family On ABC'S Wife Swap
Posted on Oct 15, 2009 @ 04:38PM - 1 comment
Missing six-year-old balloon boy, Falcon Heene's parents once appeared on ABC's hit reality TV show Wife Swap.
PHOTOS: Richard And Mayumi Heene On Wife Swap
"The Heene family from Colorado live life on the edge. Wife Mayumi (43) and storm scientist Richard (45) take their three kids, Bradford (8), Ryo (7) and Falcon (5), out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard's theories about magnetic fields and gravity," the site said of the family. "If conditions are right, Mayumi wakes her family by shouting "Storm Approaching, Storm Approaching!" into a bullhorn. The family sleep in their clothes so they can leap out of bed and into the storm-mobile."
Six Year Old Not Found Floating In Balloon
One of Falcon's siblings reportedly saw the six-year-old crawl into the balloon like experimental structure that was tethered in the family's back yard around 10am PST.
The balloon was spotted flying high in the skies for approximately two and a half hours before landing softly in a field. There was no sign of Falcon and there is concern that the little boy may have fallen out of an unlocked door on the craft sometime during the flight.
TV: Friday Hot List
Posted on Jul 16, 2009 @ 03:15AM - Add a comment
The Food Network premieres a new reality show tonight called Private Chefs of Beverly Hills. It's about an LA based private-chef placement agency that caters to some of the most over-the-top and demanding clientele around. In the premiere episode, the chefs cater a camping trip for a group of young millionaires. We know-camping and catering definitely do not mix so you know that this is gonna be good!
