Mike Rowe Is within the Center of a Soiled Lawsuit

The dirtiest job? Preventing in a fierce lawsuit. Mike Rowe is suing Discovery for $2 million in unpaid wages for voice-over work for the sequence Deadliest Catch. He claims the corporate didn’t honor the “pay-or-play” settlement of their contract, per Folks. The 2 agreed in 2020 to pay Rowe $40,000 per episode he narrates, and if he doesn’t narrate an episode, he would nonetheless be compensated, together with the spin-off sequence. He’s additionally asking for a jury trial. Rowe’s been the narrator for the sequence since 2005.

Additionally they declare that the worldwide variations of the present have been totally different than those aired within the US. “Lab Rat and Rowe have additionally realized that the episodes of the unique Deadliest Catch sequence which are aired internationally are materially totally different than the episodes aired in the US,” the lawsuit states. “To the extent any of those worldwide episodes are decided to be ‘initially produced episodes,’ the pay-or-play settlement would apply to these as effectively.” The lawsuit says that as a result of Rowe was not concerned in “no less than 51 episodes”, Discovery owes him no less than $2 million in misplaced wages.

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