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Redmon fired from one IRT show, quits other
September 27, 2011
| by: James Jaillet
Ice Road Trucker Dave Redmon said in an interview with Overdrive‘s sister magazine Truckers News that the show’s production crew fabricates scenes in the series and “went out of their way” to make him look bad. “They really, really spent a lot of effort making me look terrible in Alaska,” Redmon says. “The stuff you see on TV is totally so far from the truth it’s just unreal.”
Redmon said in the interview his perceived firing from the show in the Sunday, Sept. 18 episode “Judgment Day,” was scripted. “I know it doesn’t look that way on TV, obviously,” Redmon said. “They had scripted me to be the bad guy on the show, and it just scripted me to get fired.”
When asked for comment, the History Channel said in an email: “Dave Redmon was part of the production for two years. We wish him well in his future endeavors.”
The Riverside, Ala., native said the show cited his perceived inability to be a “team player” as its justification. “My so-called attitude and not getting along with everybody [was why]. I was doing my job and I was doing it safely, I just didn’t get along with everybody.”
Redmon said the History Channel, which produces the show, sent him a cease-and-desist letter after he posted some of his issues with the show on Facebook. When episodes aired, he says he would post on Facebook to “try to put things a little bit in perspective.”
“They put lies and stuff on there about the things I do,” he said. “If there’s a totally fabricated scene, I will put the truth on Facebook so everybody can see it.”
He’s hired a lawyer in case a lawsuit breaks, which he said he thinks is a possibility. “I really do potentially see a lawsuit coming from somebody. I don’t know if it will be me after them or them after me,” he said.
Dave is a FB friend and fellow Alabamian. I am appalled IRT would script a so called”realioty” show. I am behind dave 100%.
i’ve suspected that the producers were scripting some IRT scenes for a long time, & Im glad that Dave has had the courage to defend his reputation and expose what they were doing. people like dave, yem, and lisa made me a fan of the show, not carlile shills like the ones that gave dave such a hard time.
Dave’s a drama queen. I’d bet he makes a big production out of cutting his toenails. The shows are better off with him gone.
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