Four For Friday - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - The Ugly - Anniversary Month

"You have to come see this. It is a s**t show." That was the message I got on my phone from this celebrity offspring of a permanent A lister. She was filming a reality show. Not her usual thing. Oh, once in awhile because of her last name she will be invited on a show as a guest, but this was a series and for that season one of the stars.

When I called her back, she started to go into detail about what she meant, but at some point said this is something you have to see to believe because, "I understand no sane person would believe this without seeing it." It was the goings on from the biggest name on the show. On a show where even Dancing With The Stars wouldn't cast their net, this actor was the biggest fish. Honestly, now that I think about it, DWTS might try and land him. Well, they would if they could get him away from his straight to On Demand career. Hey, at least he works. Back when all of this happened he was a decade removed from his biggest success, but he had that name, which on a show like this was all important.

The show generally just filmed once or twice a week and the next week after her call I went down to the set with her to see what was going on. The first thing I saw when I got over by the trailers, was our actor with a cast iron skillet slamming it against the trailer. He was holding it with two hands while screaming, "Where the f**k is my breakfast. Someone better bring me my f**king breakfast." Over and over for ten minutes until some harried production assistant brought him a bag of McDonald's. Yep. He opened it up and looked inside. Apparently it was to his satisfaction because he then screamed, "How f**king hard was that." He then tossed the skillet to the ground and walked inside his trailer.

He was supposed to start shooting 30 minutes later. When a different production assistant went to the trailer to get him, our actor opened up the door fully naked and screamed, "Does it look like I'm f**king ready to shoot?" He then slammed the door. Two minutes later the door opened and his soon to be wife was kicked out the door and pushed down the stairs by the actor's foot. He started screaming at her and calling her every possible name you could imagine. She looked rough and her clothes were torn and makeup smeared.

Five minutes after that he emerged from his trailer fully clothed, totally calm and asked very politely where he needed to go. The civility lasted about an hour. He then started getting super antsy and was talking back to the director. He walked off the set and started smoking a cigarette. Then another. People kept trying to get him to come back. Oh, he went back alright. They were filming this competition scene and he took this weight lifting bar that holds weights on either end. It weighed about 45 pounds. He started swinging that thing around. He missed a couple of people by inches and broke chairs and lights and a couple of abandoned cameras. His eyes were insane. His hair was flying around and he kept circling like a samurai with the bar held up with two hands. Finally he walked back to his trailer taking swings at people or things in his way. He walked inside the trailer where you could hear the destruction. He walked out with a few of his things and walked to his car and drove off. No one ever saw him on the set again.