5:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Upon seeing the bile-spewing, assistant-firing, OCD-fuelled “
monster” captured by Bravo’s unblinking TV cameras,
Flipping Out star Jeff Lewis had something of an epiphany:
Holy crap, I really was that guy with the screaming and the cat psychics and the 70 percent lemonade/20 percent punch/10 percent Sprite drink orders, wasn’t I? Rather than blame the network’s editors for making him into the most watchable reality TV star in recent memory, Lewis did the unthinkable: he apologised to his abused employees. [
Ed.note - Audible gasp!]
He tells the OC Register:
“When I got into it, I told the production company and the network to show all sides of me,” he says over lunch at a Los Feliz restaurant the day after the second episode aired. “After all, I’m human. I have bad days, I have meltdowns, just like everybody else.”
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