Former WWE star Justin Gabriel was recently a guest on the Pancakes and Powerslams Show. Gabriel, who now wrestles as PJ Black, shared his experience of being on ‘Total Divas’.
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Gabriel appeared on a few episodes of the show during the first season. This was when he was briefly dating JoJo, who was a member of the main cast of the show.
Here is what Gabriel said about his experience on the show and producers wanting him to break up on TV:
“I didn’t want to be a part of [Total Divas] at all. They filmed some stuff, and I started talking to Jojo because I thought she was a pretty cool person. I never realized she was so young, I think she was like 18 or 19 at the time. And we kind of went that route [to dating], and they were like, ‘Hey. Do you want to be on the show?’ I was like, ‘Yeah. Sure, what do I have to do?’ They said, ‘nothing, just go on dates,’ and we went on multiple dates. They’d take film (which never aired, by the way; we filmed so many cool things), and I said to the producers, ‘I don’t think I can do this. Like, she’s 19, and I don’t think this is going to work. I’m a 30-year-old man.’ And he was like, ‘Ok. fair enough. Then you have to break up with her on TV.’ And that’s the scene they played”
He also says that 90% of the show is scripted:
“And what they did was make me look like this super womanizing heel, they edited everything to make me look like a bad guy. That’s not what happened at all. A lot of it is real, but it’s about 90 percent scripted. That I just couldn’t deal with. If it’s a reality show, let me do and say whatever I want. Don’t tell me what to say and what to wear. It wasn’t very organic or spontaneous. So, after I broke up with her, I was like, ‘Yeah. I’m outta here.”
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