Olympic gold-medal snowboarder Ross Rebagliati is complaining that a new television drama series based in B.C. portrays him in a distasteful way, and he's asking for compensation, the show's producer says.
Whistler is produced by Toronto-based Blueprint Entertainment and Vancouver-based Boardwatch Productions.
Sam Feldman of Boardwatch says the company received a letter from Rebagliati's lawyer a few weeks ago, saying that a character on the show looked similar to the 1998 Olympic gold medallist.
The CTV show features a young blond snowboarder with a red hoodie who's a hard-partying ladies' man and who wins an Olympic gold medal ? and then ends up dead.
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