Reasons Why Storage Wars Is Totally Fake

As long as everyone involved with a reality show keeps their mouths shut, we can all continue to exist in the blissful state of ignorance that allows us to believe that what we're seeing is real. After all, "reality" is right there in the name of the genre, so we must be looking at real life, right? Then someone like Dave Hester comes along and wrecks it for everyone. Yes, that's right, Dave Hester — one of the stars of A&E's Storage Wars — not only told the world the show was fake, he laid it all down in a lawsuit he filed against A&E Network in late 2012. According to ABC, Hester filed the lawsuit because he said A&E fired him for complaining about all the fakery.

Hester alleged wrongful termination, unfair business practices, breach of contract, and that oh by the way, television audience, everything you see on the show is faker than a suspiciously shiny treasure chest sitting in a storage locker. "[The] defendants ... would like the public to believe that the Series presents a genuine and accurate portrayal of the abandoned storage locker auction process," said the lawsuit. "The truth, however, is that nearly every aspect of the series is faked."

Now there's always been speculation that Storage Wars (and pretty much every other reality television program, ever) is totally fake, but when a reality star actually comes forward and says so on an actual legal document, well, it's kind of hard to keep living in that blissful state of ignorance.

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qL7Up56eZpOkunB%2Fj25nbmeimq60u82sZKysn6euqLGMsJirq12pvLWty6WwZp6RoLJw