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Contestant says all’s not fair in ‘Love Is Blind’

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A contestant on the second season of Netflix’s “Love Is Blind” reality series is accusing the show’s producers of being blind to labor laws and worker safety.

A lawsuit filed by Jeremy Hartwell in California Superior Court in Los Angeles, alleges the producers forced cast members to drink alcohol and deprived them of food, water and outside contacts, all while paying rates that were below Los Angeles County’s minimum wage and misclassifying them as contractors instead of full-time workers under state law, according to Variety magazine.

The suit names as defendants Netflix, production company Kinetic Content and Kinetic’s casting company, Delirium TV, all of which did not comment on the allegations.

Producers of the show “intentionally underpaid the cast members, deprived them of food, water and sleep, plied them with booze and cut off their access to personal contacts and most of the outside world. This made cast members hungry for social connections and altered their emotions and decision-making,” Mr. Hartwell’s attorney told Variety.