A week later we shot in the gym I was sharing offices with a physician back in Youngstown, Ohio. Just a week after filming this third video, I have to admit, I was a little burnt out. The work, the stress, the divas... Ok, more than a little burnt out on divas...
What happened? I took the entire cast out for drinks and dancing the night afterwards only to have one of the girls get upset that I wasn't paying attention to her and didn't know how to treat a lady (I didn't see one). She got 'even' by telling everyone, while I was in the restroom, that I had left the club with someone else....
Not true... However, her plan to abandon me alone at the nightclub worked... I had to hitch a ride with some friends who luckily happened to be out the same evening... What did I do about it once the weekend was over? Not much.
Let's just say I wasn't the first to complain and her management dropped Miss Hessler shortly there after for related incidents... She of course claimed she wasn't compensated for her time but her management can attest that she was... Want to hear more about that? This is what management had to say:
This third video features the ultra buff World Toughman Champ Ray Hammond (cool, cool guy) benching 500 pounds, Ms Fitness Ohio Michelle Talboo (and her daughter), Artie Kaikou who is shown teaching a martial arts class (where the kids undeservingly attack and beat me up, man, no respect) and Ms International Susie Curry training with me, rehearsing her fitness routine and even taking a Spinning class.
The other video stars were model Brian Blazek (now a bartender at the Bellagio in Vegas, ladies), Theresa Hessler again and the always charming Danny Weigand. You might notice the bonus clips of Ms North America Ericca Kern but her footage was filmed a month later along with 2 other additional players. Ericca enjoys samples from our line of quintuple filtered, surgically pure, water in her closing shots.
One thing in particular to note is that for the majority of our taping, the gyms were full of my real life clients hanging around, but let's ignore the toasts of wine we shared... Yes, I admit that's me having a beer with Pan Am games tae kwon do medalist Angela Wolbert and Susie Curry during a break!
The following day after the shoot, I took the group to hang out at the Mr. Ohio Bodybuilding and Fitness show which I sponsored. I had a dozen people there and asked the video stars to hand out the trophies during the evening ceremony. All in all, it really was a good time, maybe I just like to complain. Taking all of these larger than life people to my tiny little hometown of Newton Falls, Ohio or anywhere else all at once is simply asking for trouble.
I cannot keep my eye on all of them and it adds up for problems no one could ever predict. The look on those little old ladies' faces when I came in with a bunch of comic book super heroes to my friend's small town diner was priceless. It was later that night the abandonment of yours truly occurred... Let's talk to the management of a couple of these stars for further insight...
DON LEMMON ASKED: What ever happened to some of the women I worked with in my videos? After Teresa Hessler pulled her stunt in Ohio at the one shoot, no matter how often I tell her it's alright, she won't face up to it all.
JM MANION OF JMP MANAGEMENT REPLIED: Whew. She was a problem in Ohio and everywhere else. I've held back on this for a couple of years, while she's told her side. This time, I am going to set the record straight. What it came down to was that she breached her contract with us numerous times. She accepted quite a few jobs behind our backs & didn't tell us.
How I found out was I saw the print & video work she did. I don't know how she thought we'd never see this? At the time, she was living in the Baltimore area, then she met someone (behind her live-in boyfriend's back) & moved out to L.A. (only to fail there too)...
DON LEMMON ASKED: (sarcastic mode ON) Theresa? But she was so innocent, sweet & honest.
JM MANION OF JMP MANAGEMENT REPLIED: I have the proof to back this up... So we consulted our attorney & set up terminating her contract, but not without getting our proper commission first. She immediately had a small mention in MuscleMag where she stated something to the effect that since she moved to California JMP Management "couldn't" promote her any more.
Anybody with any brains would know that Michelle Bellini lives in California & we were managing her at the time so why wouldn't we be able to manage Theresa? Carol Semple-Marzetta: Again, another athlete I've held back on discussing that breached her contract.
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