Taheed & Ytossie sue producers
The ClubHouse: Temptation Island: Taheed & Ytossie sue producers
Max | Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 09:26 am  'Temptation Island' Couple Sue Show Updated 10:24 AM ET March 29, 2001 LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Los Angeles couple booted off "Temptation Island" because they have a 2-year-old child sued the show's producers, claiming defamation of character. Ytossie Patterson, 34, and Taheed Watson, 29, filed suit in Superior Court on Wednesday. The two were kicked off the show - designed to tempt emotionally committed but unmarried couples into straying - when it was revealed their relationship produced a child, a fact they allegedly hid from producers. The two seek unspecified punitive and compensatory damages. Fox Television Studios and Rocket Science Laboratories, both in the Los Angeles area, were named as defendants. A spokesperson at Rocket Science declined comment Wednesday. A recording answered a call to Fox Television before business hours Thursday, saying the office was closed. Patterson and Watson claim producers always knew they had a child, but decided it would boost ratings for the series if that information came out during an episode. They also claim that an episode in which producers chastised the two for the alleged revelation was "condescending and humiliating," according to the suit. "The footage was edited to exclude plaintiffs' responses to the producer's accusations, and falsely portrayed plaintiffs as mischievous and immoral, that they had in fact concealed the existence of their own child and that they had nothing to say about it in the face of this disgraceful tongue lashing," the lawsuit stated, adding that what the audience was shown was "edited and manipulated." Patterson and Watson have been together 5 1/2 years. The three other "Temptation Island" couples decided to stay together at the show's end in February. |
Lancecrossfire | Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 09:55 am  This is so typical. Let's see, they knew that no kids were allowed when they applied, yet applied anyway. Gee, I wonder who isn't taking responsibility here. Someone should slap an injunction on them so fast it will make their heads spin. Ok, sorry, I just wanted to say that for a long time. Introduce these two to recruit Meyer. They belong together. |
Grooch | Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 10:32 am  Who did they get to represent them? Stacy from Survivor I? |
Admin | Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 07:46 pm  What a joke! The producers should be suing THEM for breach of contract or something! They're lucky they got to stay on the island as long as they did..... |
Max | Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 10:31 pm  Family court should be taking that poor kid away from them. What a disaster zone! |
Seamonkey | Friday, March 30, 2001 - 07:35 pm  Lock them away with Jerri, Kimmi, Jordan, Meyer and a wild pig!!! |
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Guruchaz | Tuesday, April 03, 2001 - 03:10 pm  They really don't have a basis for suing the show since they broke a contract rule. They should be glad they still got any airplay at all and didn't get immediately escorted to a planeride home. They don't want to admit they were wrong and are trying to get something out of it on the side. It will blow up in their face. |
Grooch | Wednesday, April 04, 2001 - 09:38 am  Couple Booted From Fox's Temptation Island Sue They are Claiming Producers Knew About Their Child by Denise Levin - Inside.com (submitted by Vixen) Ytossie Patterson and Taheed Watson, the couple who were booted from Temptation Island after it was discovered that they had a child together, filed suit Wednesday against Fox Television and producer Rocket Science Laboratories for defamation. The suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. The complaint contends that the producers of the show knew that the couple had a child, but instructed them not to say anything before the show began taping. Patterson and Watson say they went through an ''extensive interview'' process with Rocket Science, which promised that the show would be honest and would depict the couple in an ''attractive and positive light.'' When the couple revealed that they had a child together, Rocket Science ''admonished them that that was 'the wrong answer,' and in fact counseled and suggested to plaintiffs not to discuss the existence of their child,'' the suit states. ''Notwithstanding the revelation of their child together, plaintiffs were selected to participate in the show.'' |
Grooch | Wednesday, April 04, 2001 - 09:40 am  oops! sorry for posting that. I guess I had a brain fart. |
Max | Wednesday, April 04, 2001 - 07:44 pm  Now they say they went into it to get publicity and exposure for their careers as actors. According to them, if the press about them now was positive, there would be no problem. Apparently, they feel the negative press is costing them audition opportunities, so they are suing. They say the producers not only knew about the kid but let them call him twice a day. The producers say the only kids that were mentioned were Taheed's two (by his wife who he's "in the process of divorcing") and Ytossie's son who they didn't know was Taheed's. They say these two listed "executive administrator" and "software consultant" as their professions, not acting. Sounds like the truth is somewhere in between and, in my mind, closer to the producer's side than Taheed and Ytossie's. But, if the producers knew that Taheed wasn't divorced yet, why didn't that send red flags? I guess it was okay that his kids saw him playing around on Ytossie since she's not THEIR mom? The whole thing is fishy. The story this stuff comes from is from Reuters via Excite News.
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