He’s a TV star who hates being on television.
Bike-building bad boy Jesse James is roaring back onto television with a new Discovery channel show Nov. 5, called “Outlaw Garage.” But he isn’t arriving willingly.
“I don’t like being on TV very much, and I don’t really care about it either,” he said. “But I like building stuff, and I like the opportunities that building stuff on TV brings.”
James also says he could care less about those who are interested in his personal life — most notably the 2010 sex scandal that erupted when several women claimed to have had affairs with him during his marriage to Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock.
“I’m so far detached from that world,” he said. “The people that take all that stuff seriously and live their lives by it, aren’t into welding or anything else that I do. They have zero effect on my life and I don’t belong in that world anyway. I’m a good dad, I work my ass off, and anything beyond that, I could give a s—.”
On the new show, James builds motorcycles and cars at a high-end garage in Austin for which he’s now part owner. Among his projects are a car that Mel Gibson will drive in the new film, “Machete Kills,” and a 200-mph, two-seat roadster for use at a local race track.
What the show is not, he said, is someone else’s idea.
“I’m in control,” James said. “I hate producers, I hate the people that make television, I hate being told what to do — so now I do as I please.”
Well, sort of.
The maker of “Outlaw Garage”is Craig Piligian, the brains behind “Orange County Choppers” and a dozen other reality shows. Like James, he can’t really say more than a few sentences without dropping an f-bomb.
“It’s not TV that’s the problem,” James growled. “It’s the people that make it — although there are exceptions.”
The beefy bike builder said he has been filming the series since last May and is now getting tired of it.
“I’ve just about had enough,” he said.
Source : nydailynews[dot]com
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