Reality TV started for Jeremy Hartwell, a director at a mortgage company in Chicago, with a direct message on a dating app.
"Someone matched with me then very quickly messaged me saying, you know, 'I have a boyfriend, but I think you'd be really great for the show I'm casting for, are you interested?'" Hartwell recalls in an interview with CNN.
"I've actually, I've never really been that interested in reality TV. It just, you know, was never that entertaining for me," Hartwell says. "But I have a personal philosophy of seeking out new experiences, challenging myself, doing stuff that seems scary -- and this kind of fit all of the criteria there. I decided to throw my hat in the ring. I never actually thought I would be cast.
"We were constantly told not to talk to each other, not to talk about things while we were waiting for people to finish getting their bags and get into the shuttle to be taken to orientation," he says, as some of the show's participants were transported at the same time.After an introductory speech from producers, Hartwell says contestants' belongings were searched and their cell phones, wallets and IDs were confiscated.
Hartwell alleges that snacks and water were so infrequent, they were forced to wait hours for fresh water if they were thirsty."Most of the activity was punctuated by large stretches of waiting," Hartwell says. Hartwell's attorney, Chantal Payton of Payton Employment Law in Los Angeles, tells CNN the lack of adequate food and isolation "made cast members hungry for social connections and altered their emotions and decision-making."
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