In 2014, quite a lot of retailers showed that Fred Hurt would no longer go back to “Gold Rush” for its 5th season, and fortunately, enthusiasts of the display did not have to wait very lengthy to to find out why. Hurt himself took to Fb (by the use of Starcasm) to provide an explanation for all of the state of affairs, writing, “It’s not that i am wealthy….. I’m a operating magnificence man like maximum of you. After spending extra for 4 years immediately than I made, there was once no method for me to proceed.” He then tacks at the mantra of “If you wish to have a Miner, name me…….if you wish to have an Actor, pay me like one.”
Hurt’s put up did not finish there, as he famous that there was once additionally a war of hobby in the back of the scenes that contributed to his farewell. “[…]we didn’t move in conjunction with each cocamainy concept the movie other folks dreamed up……” he published, citing that the season devoted to mining in South The usa was once “disastrous” and that he and his son, Dustin Hurt, had been left fully on their very own creatively. Hurt additionally mentioned in a remark that “I am entertaining thousands and thousands of other folks the use of my very own sources ……and Discovery is pocketing all of the benefit,” additional exemplifying the stress between him and the community.
Regardless that his phrases had been scathing sufficient to burn just about any bridge, Fred Hurt did not go away the “Gold Rush” international in the back of for just right. He and Dustin are the focal issues of the aforementioned spin-off “Gold Rush: White Water,” which has run on Discovery since 2018. One can handiest hope that this implies his industry dating with the minds in the back of the sequence has healed and his monetary state of affairs has a great deal progressed.
