A contestant on VH1’s reality show Dating Naked is suing the network because she was shown... well... naked.
The show debuted in July 2014, billing itself as a new kind of social experiment in dating. The show’s contestants are secluded at a remote island resort where they pair up and go on dates completely exposed. VH1 explains that, before these contestants bare their souls, they “bare everything else first.”
Although nudity is at the heart of this show, Jessie Nizewitz is suing VH1 for showing her crotch on TV. Now, the show typically shows the bare backsides of its contestants, but that is supposed to be the extent to the fully visual nudity. Genitals and female breasts are digitally blurred. At least they are supposed to be.
Whoever is responsible in post-production for ensuring that everyone’s bits and pieces are appropriately pixilated seemingly missed a spot. During one scene in the show’s third episode, Nizewitz playfully wrestles with her date on the beach. And, for a brief second when the episode aired, her genitals were accidentally exposed to the world. She says she was assured by producers that her genitals would be fully blurred at all times on the show. But, because that didn’t happen, she filed a $10 million lawsuit against the network.
“Although I went on this show knowing that I would be nude while taping it I was told that my private parts would be blurred for TV,” says Nizewitz in a statement from her attorney to Entertainment Weekly. She continues, “If you watch an episode, you will see that the blur actually makes it less revealing than a bikini would. Obviously, I did not expect the world to see my private parts, this is not what I anticipated or what any other contestants on the show anticipated.”
The suit, which was filed late on Wednesday, August 20, names VH1’s parent company, Viacom, as well as production companies Firelight Entertainment and Lighthearted Entertainment.
Nizewitz, a 28-year-old model from New York, alleges that having her genitals flashed on national television resulted in the demise of a budding relationship. She claims that, after the episode aired, the man she had been seeing for a month stopped calling.
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