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It's only been a week and already quarantine is getting pretty old.As I woke up, the living room lights were on full blast, CNN droning in the background. According to the little numbers on the cable box, it was 4 a.m. I thought, It’s four in the morning, you should go back to sleep. But then I thought, You can’t go anywhere anyway, what difference does the time make? So I made some coffee and shuffled into the chilly backyard to smoke. I’m not complaining. I’ve had a pretty productive week in quarantine. I read some Shakespeare, wrote a...

(Meredith) -- A woman who recently purchased a storage unit from "Storage Wars" Dan Dotson found $7.5 million in cash inside the unit. According to the Desert Sun, the A&E reality "Storage Wars" star sold a unit to a woman for $500 in Southern California. A month later, a friend of the woman told Dotson at a charity event that her friend found the load of cash inside a safe in the unit. Dotson said the attorney for the original owners of the unit found out their storage was sold and contacted the woman to negotiate a deal.

Dan Dotson, the familiar face of the A&E reality show "Storage Wars," was standing at a charity event in Indio on Nov. 1 when a quiet woman approached him. She had a story to tell the auctioneer. Her friend bought a storage unit from Dotson the month before in Southern California — and found inside that shed was $7.5 million in cash. It came as a surprise to the buyer and the auctioneer. “It was an amazing story,” Dotson told The Desert Sun as he recalled the exchange. “She said, ‘I just gotta tell you this story, my husband...

The basic problem with "Duck Dynasty" AND all other "Reality" Shows is that they are uncomfortable with Reality. With Duck Dynasty, A&E basically wanted something like the Beverly Hillbillies but it got away from them with talk about religion. However, Duck Dynasty is not the only "Reality" Show uncomfortable with reality. Here are some other shows that had to tangle with bits of uncomfortable reality that they tried to suppress: Storage Wars: The best REAL moment on that show was when Mark, who worked for Jarrod and Brandi angrily quit. Apparently he was getting tired of Jarrod and Brandi making...

Stars of the hit A&E TV reality show “Storage Wars” are dropping like flies. Following a report that three main cast members of the series were being dropped due to budget cuts, an original star is also following suit. Barry Weiss, 54, one of the primary treasure hunters on the long-running series which chronicles a group of individuals searching for profitable items in abandoned storage lockers, has reportedly made a decision to part ways with the network. According to a report from Radar Online, Weiss has already filmed a secret farewell episode following allegations that the show is unauthentic. “They...

The “Storage Wars” lawsuit heatedly continues this week, as Yahoo! TV News reported this Tuesday, March 12, that “Storage Wars” and the A&E Network has won the first round in a legal battle against Dave Hester, who argued in his lawsuit that the popular reality show is actually staged. In yesterday’s ruling, Judge Michael Johnson took sides with A&E’s “Storage Wars” on several key points, first dismissing Dave Hester’s argument that the Unfair Business Practices was violated by the network. Johnson similarly agreed with the show in the “Storage Wars” lawsuit for the ruling that any injunction against the TV...

"Storage Wars" star Mark Balelo killed himself today by carbon monoxide poisoning ... TMZ has learned. Multiple sources close to Balelo tell us he was found dead in his car ... which was parked and running in the garage at his auction house in Simi Valley, CA. According to our sources, Balelo had been arrested for a drug-related offense on Saturday. We're told when Balelo got out of jail he was distraught, and asked his fiancée to come over because he was afraid he might hurt himself.

These days, if you Google “Storage Wars,” likely two things will come up. First, is the fact that yet another version of the ever-popular A&E reality show is set to launch in January – Storage Wars: New York – and, second, that one of the original cast members, David Hester, recently claimed in a lawsuit that “nearly every aspect of the show is faked.” The latter has somewhat overshadowed the former in terms of publicity, and yet, based on the continued popularity of the series, there’s little doubt Storage Wars: New York will be a success, because if there’s anything...

The snarky character axed from the A&E reality show “Storage Wars” — and who now filed a bombshell lawsuit claiming the show is rigged — has always been a trouble maker, production sources claim. “He was always demanding more this and that and whined that things were rigged when he was outbid,” a show source said of David Hester, who sued the show and A&E Tuesday, alleging the entire series is a fraud.

NEW YORK – “Storage Wars” may have a real war brewing with one of its stars. Dave Hester , one of the show’s cast members, has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the show, according to RadarOnline. In his lawsuit, Hester is claiming the series is fake, and he says when he made complaints to the network about the staged portions of the show he was fired, Radar reported.

"Storage Wars" is about that part of the American dream where we try to get rich off the misfortune of others. It's also about another way to chase the rush of gambling without ever touching a deck of cards. Cool, huh? "Storage Wars" follows four men on a California circuit of storage-locker auctions, which are like small-scale repo operations. Somebody rents a storage locker, throws stuff in and for some reason stops paying the rent. After three months, the storage company breaks the lock and sells whatever's inside to the highest bidder - in this case, usually Darrell, Dave, Barry...