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Netflix’s standard fact show Love Is Blind has simply been blindsided with a lawsuit from their season two contestant, Jeremy Hartwell. 

Hartwell seemed in the first part of the second season, known as the “pods section,” sooner than being eradicated and moving on to the “engagements section.” He won noticeably much less display screen time than his fellow contestants, a truth he’s been open about on his Instagram account. However, leading up to the show’s premiere, he promoted the competition by way of pronouncing, “Filming for Love is Blind was one in all the maximum intense and memorable occasions of my life and because of journaling and reflection, it remains an enjoy that I’m at peace with, irrespective of the ups and downs.”

As it seems, his time spent on the show was once memorable for all the flawed causes. The former contestant is suing Netflix and the Love Is Blind production company over “inhumane operating stipulations,” per Us Weekly. 

Why is Jeremy Hartwell suing Netflix and the Love Is Blind production company?

According to Hartwell’s lawyer, Chantal Payton, the producers of Love Is Blind “deliberately underpaid the cast members, deprived them of meals, water and sleep, plied them with booze and bring to a halt their access to private contacts and most of the outdoor international. This made cast participants hungry for social connections and altered their emotions and decision-making.”

The lawsuit serves as “a proposed elegance action on behalf of all contributors in ‘Love Is Blind’ and different non-scripted productions.” 

The “inhumane working stipulations” Hartwell and his criminal group put forth come with the underneath minimum-wage salary the contestants received ($1,000 weekly payments for over 20 hours of labor, seven days per week, with a max of $8,000); the regular carrier of “alcoholic beverages, comfortable drinks, power beverages, and mixers” all day, however most effective offering “hydrating beverages corresponding to water” right through the day. In addition, the lawsuit will glance into whether the production company deprived the cast contributors of meals, water, and sleep, as Hartwell claims.

A snappy walk through Hartwell’s Instagram finds a gentle circulate of promotional posts for Love Is Blind and accompanying captions that give little indication of a lawsuit looming in the distance. One can handiest wonder whether the purpose used to be there all alongside.

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