An alleged Beast Games participant has taken to YouTube to make some claims about Jimmy "MrBeast's" Amazon Prime game show. The individual is named Scott Leopold, and his channel on the platform has 2.09K subscribers. According to Leopold, the series has a pre-determined winner, chosen by the producers.
Leopold claimed he had been "misled" by the project and would not have participated had he known that he would not be winning the $5 million prize money. Here's what he had to say:
"We were put into a group and this person came out and they said that the producers will be picking the person that wins the $5 million and they said that the producers are putting up the money, they are putting up the risk and so they are gonna pick who it is and there's not much they can do about it."
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"I was being taken advantage of" - Alleged Beast Games participant criticizes MrBeast's project
Scott Leopold further expressed how he felt when he allegedly heard about there being a pre-determined winner for Beast Games:
"Once I heard that, I really felt that I was being taken advantage of. They brought me there, they didn't tell me that upfront because I probably wouldn't done it if there wasn't gonna be a chance for me to win the $5 million."
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Leopold also claimed that the video that he was involved in will not be broadcast on Amazon Prime but rather on MrBeast's YouTube channel:
"I had heard from other contestants that the first part of the series would not be on Amazon Prime. That was the part that I was just in. That would not be on Amazon Prime and that would be just a YouTube video."
He further alleged that most of the participants were actors:
"They needed background people, which explains why most of the people, including myself, are actors. We got this opportunity presented to us either through agents or casting networks. It feels like they just wanted to get cheap background people to come an participate."
This isn't the first time such allegations have emerged against Beast Games. Vital Vegas, a Las Vegas-based news outlet, recently reported that some participants were left injured or denied medications during the filming of the show.