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\n Picture: Paul Morigi\/Getty Photographs<\/span>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n 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 \u201cpay-or-play\u201d settlement of their contract, per Folks. The 2 agreed in 2020 to pay Rowe $40,000 per episode he narrates, and if he doesn\u2019t narrate an episode, he would nonetheless be compensated, together with the spin-off sequence. He’s additionally asking for a jury trial. Rowe\u2019s been the narrator for the sequence since 2005.<\/p>\n Additionally they declare that the worldwide variations of the present have been totally different than those aired within the US. \u201cLab 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,\u201d the lawsuit states. \u201cTo the extent any of those worldwide episodes are decided to be \u2018initially produced episodes,\u2019 the pay-or-play settlement would apply to these as effectively.\u201d The lawsuit says that as a result of Rowe was not concerned in \u201cno less than 51 episodes\u201d, Discovery owes him no less than $2 million in misplaced wages.<\/p>\n