This week, stars and production staff from Top Chef are in a Boston courtroom recounting the alleged threats and racial slurs they were subjected to by four members of Teamsters Union Local 25 during a shoot for the show.
The scary situation allegedly unfolded outside of a Milton, Massachusetts restaurant back in 2014, amid protests by the local Teamsters who wanted to be hired as drivers for the nonunion show.
Here’s everything you need to know about the ongoing extortion trial – which kicked off Tuesday – surrounding those events.
Teamsters surrounded Padma Lakshmi’s car and threatened her lifeThough host Lakshmi, herself,...
The scary situation allegedly unfolded outside of a Milton, Massachusetts restaurant back in 2014, amid protests by the local Teamsters who wanted to be hired as drivers for the nonunion show.
Here’s everything you need to know about the ongoing extortion trial – which kicked off Tuesday – surrounding those events.
Teamsters surrounded Padma Lakshmi’s car and threatened her lifeThough host Lakshmi, herself,...
- 8/3/2017
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
A Top Chef producer testified in Boston federal court that she was the subject of racist taunts and host Padma Lakshmi was physically threatened when four members of the Teamsters Union were picketing outside a restaurant where the show was filming in 2014.
Supervising producer Ellie Carbajal told the jury Wednesday that the teamsters, who Deadline reports are accused of trying to extort the show for driving jobs, “swarmed vehicle and surrounded it.”
According to Deadline, one of the men said to the others with his face just inches from the host’s car window, “That’s the pretty one. We...
Supervising producer Ellie Carbajal told the jury Wednesday that the teamsters, who Deadline reports are accused of trying to extort the show for driving jobs, “swarmed vehicle and surrounded it.”
According to Deadline, one of the men said to the others with his face just inches from the host’s car window, “That’s the pretty one. We...
- 8/3/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
Four Boston Teamsters who allegedly terrorized the cast and crew of Top Chef back in 2014 will go on trial this summer on charges that they tried to extort jobs on Bravo’s hit TV show. U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock today set July 31 as the start date for the trial of Local 25 members Michael Ross, John Fidler, Robert Calarelli and Daniel Redmond. Mark Harrington, the local's former secretary-treasurer, pleaded guilty to the same charges in December and is…...
- 1/27/2017
- Deadline TV
Mark Harrington, one of five Boston Teamsters who were indicted for the attempted extortion of the Top Chef TV show back in 2014, has been sentenced to two years of probation and six months of home confinement. Harrington, who pleaded guilty to the charge last month, also was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and restitution of $24,023. As first reported by Deadline, Harrington was one of about a dozen members of the Teamsters Local 25 who had had set up a picket line on…...
- 12/15/2016
- Deadline TV
Charlie Sheen is now speaking out against the Mexico-based doctor who claims to have cured the actor of HIV using a medically contested treatment involving goat milk.
Dr. Sam Chachoua appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday and told the host that he spent months with Sheen in Mexico to cure Sheen's disease. But a recent tweet from the Two and a Half Men star suggests otherwise.
"Dr Sam I was with u in Mexico for 1 day," Sheen tweeted Sunday. "It's illegal for u to practice in U.S.A. where u treated me for 2 months."
Along with the tweet,...
Dr. Sam Chachoua appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday and told the host that he spent months with Sheen in Mexico to cure Sheen's disease. But a recent tweet from the Two and a Half Men star suggests otherwise.
"Dr Sam I was with u in Mexico for 1 day," Sheen tweeted Sunday. "It's illegal for u to practice in U.S.A. where u treated me for 2 months."
Along with the tweet,...
- 2/1/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- People.com - TV Watch
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