The alleged domestic assault raises questions about whether the Walt Disney Co.-owned ABC, which airs “The Bachelor,” and Warner Bros. Television, which produces Mike Fleiss’ lucrative television shows, will stand behind him.
A Los Angeles County judge on Tuesday ordered Mike Fleiss, the reality television producer behind “The Bachelor” franchise, to stay 100 yards away from his estranged wife after she filed a complaint alleging that he’d verbally and physically abused her. As part of that complaint, she submitted photos of bruises she alleged he’d given her and footage of what she claimed was an altercation between the two that was caught on security cameras at the couple’s Hawaii home on July 6.
The dispute is a sordid one, especially for a producer who’s made his name peddling televised romance. In her declaration filed Tuesday, Fleiss’ wife Laura, 31, alleged that a recent pregnancy — she claims she is now 10 weeks along with the couple’s second child — has been the cause of strife in the marriage, leading her husband to file for divorce on July 10.
Fleiss claims her husband then got in his pickup truck while yelling “I’m going to punch your face in”; as she stepped on the footboard trying to get her phone from him through the truck’s open door, she claimed, he started to reverse and “forcefully shoved” her off the vehicle. ABC declined to comment on the allegations against Fleiss, but Warner Bros. said production would move forward as usual.
“The Bachelor” is by far the most significant achievement of Fleiss’ Hollywood career, which began in the early 1990s when he ditched a short-lived stint as a sports journalist and went into television to work on hidden-camera prank shows. His first hit was 1998’s “Shocking Behavior Caught on Tape,” which in 2003 he told Vanity Fair he was “proud” of “even though it was a sleazy, disgusting little show, with a bartender stirring a drink with his penis.
Fleiss’ other forays into television have not been so fruitful. Last summer, he created another reality series for ABC called “The Proposal,” in which contestants tried to find someone to propose to within one hour. But the series, which ran for 10 episodes, never managed to attract more than 3.7 million viewers. In 2016, he produced TLC’s “Love at First Kiss,” on which two strangers kissed to see if they had chemistry before speaking; that show also lasted only one season.
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