MrBeast has come under fire once again with a massive lawsuit being filed
MrBeast and Amazon have been sued by contestants of their upcoming game show Beast Games.
The famous YouTuber has been producing the gameshow alongside the global conglomerate, with more than 1,000 participants competing for a single $5 million cash prize.
But MrBeast has found himself in hot water for his alleged treatment of contestants.
Mr Beast (bottom row, centre) also faced controversy for his connections to Ava Kris Tyson (bottom row, left) after allegations that she had groomed a minor. (Instagram/@MrBeast)
A lawsuit seen by Variety detailed ‘multiple’ contestants on Beast Games being hospitalised.
The suit states: “Indeed, according to local news reports, multiple (countless) Beast Games Contestants were taken to the hospital, including for dehydration.
“Scott Roeben of Vital Vegas reported that local Desert Springs Hospital ‘had seen countless patients coming from Beast Games due to lack of food and water’; and that the production had allegedly ‘denied food to diabetics, denied water to contestants, and at least two had seizures as a result’.”
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Variety stated that the lawsuit, made by five contestants as a class action suit, also claims that the production: “Failed to pay minimum wages and overtime; failed to prevent sexual harassment; created conditions that subjected contestants to ‘infliction of emotional distress’; did not provide participants uninterrupted meal breaks or rest breaks; and exposed contestants to ‘dangerous circumstances and conditions as a condition of their employment.’”
Attorneys for the Beast Games contestants released a statement, saying:
“While participants knew upon signing the contract at the production’s inception that they were facing a potentially long and challenging competition, they allege getting a lot more than they bargained for.
“Several contestants ending up hospitalised, while others reported suffering physical and mental complications while being subjected to chronic mistreatment, degradation and, for the female contestants, hostile working conditions.”
The plaintiffs in the case were anonymised, with one female contestant saying in a statement in the lawsuit: “I wanted to join because I was a fan of MrBeast and his videos made me smile during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I expected to be challenged, but I didn’t think I would be treated like nothing — less than nothing. And as one of the women, I can say it absolutely felt like a hostile environment for us.
“We honestly could not have been respected less — as people, much less employees — if they tried.”
LADbible Group has contacted Mr Beast and Amazon for a comment
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