We all remember the Fyre Festival, right? Nearly two years ago, rapper Ja Rule and a bunch of social media celebrities promised rich millennials a luxury Coachella in the Bahamas with gourmet meals and private cabanas.
What concert goers actually received was closer to disaster relief than luxury living. The “gourmet food” was just bread, cheese, and a salad. The private cabanas were tents with little-to-no electricity. Participants were provided private lockers, but apparently not told they needed to bring their own locks.
The whole episode was a disaster and perfect chance for social media mockery. It has since spawned two documentaries — one on Hulu and the other on Netflix — and now one of the festival’s producers, who became famous in one of the documentaries for offering blow jobs for water, might get his own TV show.
Andy King, an event producer, was featured in the Netflix documentary on Fyre Festival, titled “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.” Here’s how the Decider describes King’s involvement in the festival:
“During the SVOD feature, King revealed that founder Billy McFarland asked him to handle the negotiation of a fine from customs in the amount of $175,000, which if paid, would allow trucks full of Evian water to flow through customs.
When sh*t hits the fan, McFarland asks King to visit the Head of Customs and… “suck [his] dick” if he has to. King, who felt that there was no other solution, headed to the office prepared to perform the act of felatio, but was luckily spared the embarrassment by the customs official.
“I got into my car to drive across the island to take one for the team. And I got to [the customs officer’s] office, fully prepared to suck his dick,” he noted during the film, before revealing that the officer “couldn’t have been nicer” and literally just wanted the fine to be paid.”
For this, King, according to King, was offered his own TV show by three different “notable networks.”
King, in an interview with Vanity Fair, appears humbled and embarrassed by the inclusion of this story.
“When my great cameo came up, everybody just started clapping and cheering. And I just shrunk down in my seat, thinking, ‘Oh my word, is this what I’m going to be famous for?’” he told VF.
King also said that his story in the documentary was not meant to reflect an acceptance of sexual harassment in the workplace, but as an example of “just how crazy it was down there.” He emphasized that he is “a very conservative New Englander.”
He said his short cameo has gotten him offers from various water companies looking to cash in on the guy that would do literally anything for water, and from three networks.
“You see the attractiveness of HGTV today. People love Flip or Flop or Fixer Upper. Let’s just say it’s going to be a show about hosting crazy events—what it takes to make them happen. There will be cliff-hangers, and you’ll get to follow me around and see how I pull them off,” King said.