{"id":2027889,"date":"2025-09-17T02:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2027889"},"modified":"2025-09-17T02:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:59:42","slug":"ex-love-is-blind-contestant-files-class-action-over-inhumane-working-conditions-on-reality-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ex-love-is-blind-contestant-files-class-action-over-inhumane-working-conditions-on-reality-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-\u2018Love Is Blind\u2019 Contestant Files Class Action Over Inhumane Working Conditions on Reality Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A former contestant on Love Is Blind<\/a> has sued the makers of the Netflix<\/a> dating series for a series of alleged labor violations, marking another lawsuit challenging working conditions and pay in reality TV.<\/p>\n

In a proposed class action filed in California state court on Monday, Stephen Richardson<\/a> says he and the show\u2019s other contestants should\u2019ve been classified as employees, which would\u2019ve entitled them to certain protections relating to minimum wage, overtime and illegal contractual terms over confidentiality.<\/p>\n

The filing comes after the National Labor Relations Board last year issued a complaint against the production in which it said that castmembers were misclassified as independent contractors, opening the door to possible unionization. For years, contestants on Love Is Blind<\/a> and other reality TV shows have complained of unsafe working conditions. Many, including those on Bravo\u2019s Real Housewives and Vanderpump Rules<\/a>, have sued.<\/p>\n

One castmember, Renee Poche<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A former contestant on Love Is Blind has sued the makers of the Netflix dating series for a series of alleged labor violations, marking another lawsuit challenging working conditions and pay in reality TV. In a proposed class action filed in California state court on Monday, Stephen Richardson says he and the show\u2019s other contestants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2027890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2027889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ex-\u2018Love-Is-Blind-Contestant-Files-Class-Action-Over-Inhumane-Working.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}