We thought Bachelor Spoiler Reality Steve aka Steve Carbone was off the hook with ABC but a new lawsuit by the show alleges Steve breached his settlement agreement by unlawfully obtaining information about the show’s 17th season starring Sean Lowe.
Now we aren’t big fans of RS since he has been destroying the show for us for years. We also find it super annoying that he thinks people want his “snarky, sophmoric” take on the show and care about his long diatribes and updates on his life–as if viewers are fans of him and not the show. Steve they want spoilers, thats it!
Then there was the part where he took donations from people to pay his legal fees insisting he was innocent. People were pissed when Steve had to concede the allegations were in fact true as part of his settlement last May.
We try hard to not even see any spoliers but its impossible to go online and NOT see who wins every season. We make it a point not to post show spoilers particularly when they pertain to who wins. So this latest lawsuit shows producers are serious and we support it 100%!
According to the suit filed Dec. 21 they contend that he has breached a previous settlement agreement.
Ok, ABC we have written extensively on our theories about Reality Steve and we are hoping you will start paying attention. Look you sued the guy the first time and his response was basically “I’m going to keep doing it”. His arrogance speaks volumes. We are virtually certain he is not getting his info from show insiders. No show insider is gonna put their awesome job on the line for this douchebag’s website.
His sources are “above the law”.
In fact here is what he wrote today. Does this guy sound worried?
“I continue to spoil their show every season, they’re pissed about it, so this is how they respond. What’s funny in all this is, by suing me, they’re admitting that my spoilers are correct,” he wrote today on his website “Do you honestly think if I gave away the wrong ending, and wrong eliminations, and wrong details about the dates they would sue me? Of course not.”
The complaint contends that Carbone started posting season-17 spoilers back in September, including scene-by-scene descriptions of the first five episodes—a violation of the May 31, 2012 agreement.
The Bachelor producers are asking for $75,000 in damages for alleged intentional interference with contractual relations, as well as $10,000 per alleged violation of the settlement.
Carbone writes: “I’m exploring all my legal options at this point, including a counterclaim. They are the big guys and I’m the little one and they are trying to squash me. I don’t see that happening since I did not violate our Agreement, nor did I intentionally interfere with any contracts, which is what their latest complaint is stating.”
I’m going to share some info I shared before on why his sources can’t be show insiders and where producers should start looking.
Steve may make decent money now, but back when the sources allegedly started coming to him he didn’t make anything to share with them, and no doubt anyone working on the show has a super tight non-disclosure agreement that would subject them to serious civil penalties for breaching their contract. Plus, he gets details that an editor would not get like that Arie was texting several girls during the taping of the show and the fact that a certain person has for sure inked a deal to be the next Bachelor.
I never thought the informant was someone who worked on the show or even in Hollywood for that matter. In fact, my hypothesis is this: I believe that Reality Steve’s “source” may be in the NSA (National Security Agency) and or private companies like AT&T protected by legislation that allows wiretapping of American citizens.
Let’s start by looking at what we know about Reality Steve. And let’s just stick to the parts that could give us clues, because honestly we aren’t all that interested in his full bio.
Could he have connections in the NSA? (Incidentally US Courts just confirmed warrant-less wiretapping is legal. So, if this is how he is getting his information, then it would be considered “legal,” as Reality Steve constantly professes his means of acquiring spoiler information are).
Interview with Reality Steve on his “sources”
These excerpts are from a 2010 interview with Zap2it. They show that Reality Steve is basically a dude and seemingly wouldn’t watch a chick show like The Bachelor by choice.
He started as a sports broadcaster in the Bronx and supposedly got to know some people in the entertainment industry in L.A.. He told HairBoutique, “I have friends” and “people who know people.”
(Which I think is a complete red herring to throw people off the truth. Does anyone really think there are people in the Entertainment Industry that just randomly started going to this guy who made no money on his reality website to give him spoilers? Why would they do that?)
So here are some key questions in Zap2it:
Where do you get your scoops? “The [Jason/Molly/Melissa] news fell into my lap, this information came to me. They find me. They know I’m an independent party here, I have no affiliation with ABC and I’m willing to expose the show.”
Really, Steve? So they came to you of all people on the planet? It’s not like these people were whistleblowers blowing the lid off a pedophile ring, they are revealing Bachelor spoilers. If they have this precious info to share, they are gonna go to someone who will pay them.
What about this current season with Jake Pavelka as The Bachelor? “Going into the Monday, Jan. 4 premiere I had nothing on this season. The only thing I knew was about a group date in Hollywood at the comedy club. Then around 3 o’clock that afternoon someone came to me and basically told me the whole season. It was completely out of the blue, someone I had never spoken to before, a completely different source than someone who gave me the Jason/Molly/Melissa stuff.”
(Pah—lease!!! There is a line of Hollywood insiders coming to Reality Steve — putting their amazing Hollywood jobs on the line and breaching their non-disclosure contracts to share spoilers with this guy??? Spoilers they don’t share with anyone else?)
You have multiple Bachelor sources? “I have more than probably five sources. More and more people are coming to me with tidbits here and there. I can tell if somebody’s lying to me. But I was so confident in my sources this year … I had no reason to doubt them, they had no reason to lie to me.”
(Again, NO WAY!!! NO WAY are there 5 people working in Hollywood dishing out details to Reality Steve, especially knowing how intensely he has been investigated by ABC. Way too risky… and what’s the upside? Reality Steve gives you $1,000 bucks for a scoop? If these 5 people had a valuable scoop, they’d go to The Enquirer, or almost anywhere else, first!)
How do they contact you? Most people email me. Some people contact me on Facebook first.
(No way. Not true! I don’t believe it for a split second. People are just coming to you on Facebook and leaving an electronic paper trail so they can be sued? This story is so ridiculous it is laughable!)
So if there aren’t Hollywood Insiders coming to Reality Steve, then how does he get so many salacious and true details? As much as we dislike Reality Steve, he is right almost 100% of the time, unlike gossip mags that are right occasionally and obviously would pay a source way more. And the information is so detailed and comprehensive it couldn’t be from 1 or 2 rogue employees on the show.
Warrant-less wire-tapping was made legal by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2008 which made intercepts legal and allowed telecoms that agreed to allow NSA to tap into their communications, immune from prosecution and lawsuits.
So why would a buddy of Reality Steve’s give him salacious details about a reality TV show? It probably started as just a fun thing where his buddy randomly came upon this info, and then Steve really started making money. Then he probably struck a deal with the friend, or maybe with multiple people at the NSA, to get this info and they’d share the profits. (Keep in mind NSA is all just private companies, private contractors and they are immune from lawsuits).
His source is clearly someone that does not feel they are in anyway vulnerable to getting caught so they are probably part of an NSA culture of employees listening to conversations in an unethical manner. If “everyone’s doing it,” why worry?
I wish I wouldn’t look every year at Reality Steve but I do and then I still watch the show. But, it would be better if I didn’t know. What does he get out of it? His arrogrance is irritating.