A death during a Wipeout taping

[Matt Ottinger]

A contestant died a couple of weeks ago while participating in a Wipeout taping for the upcoming third season.   By all indications, the show itself doesn't appear to be in hot water -- he had a pre-existing condition and reports are that the show medics took the proper precautions -- but with the scrutiny given to reality shows, including one like this with so many game show elements to it, I'm a little surprised that it seems to have flown under our radar.

[chris319]

You sound like a couple of news directors I've worked for.

[chad1m]

I'd seen the report at various outlets (game show-related ones, too) but I didn't think about it not being here. But he didn't die on-set, right? He just noticed he was having some problems and they sent him to the hospital.

[JayDLewis]

I believe he had the pre-existing condition, fell on-set, paramedics took him to the hospital and he died 2 weeks later.

I may be wrong about the ToD but it wasn't on the course.

[NickS]

This brings up an interesting point; no matter how many precautions a show can take or try to take - someone's going to get hurt.  It's happened, IIRC, on Japan's "Muscle Ranking" show; I don't know whether or not it happened on "Takeshi's Castle," the precursor to Wipeout.

[Mr. Bill]

[quote name=\'TeppanYaki\' post=\'231495\' date=\'Dec 1 2009, 10:11 PM\']This brings up an interesting point; no matter how many precautions a show can take or try to take - someone's going to get hurt.  It's happened, IIRC, on Japan's "Muscle Ranking" show; I don't know whether or not it happened on "Takeshi's Castle," the precursor to Wipeout.[/quote]
It happened all the time on the various incarnations of American Gladiators.