{"id":763,"date":"2008-05-06T06:32:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T14:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2008-05-06T06:32:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T14:32:32","slug":"rebagliati-settles-with-ctv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Rebagliati Settles With CTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ross Rebagliati<\/strong>, the first snowboarder to ever win an Olympic gold medal has finally settled his two-year old legal dispute with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">CTV<\/a><\/strong> the creators of the TV show <strong><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leecrane.com\/?p=134\" target=\"_blank\">Whistler<\/a><\/span><\/strong> . Apparently, Ross felt he should be paid because he thought a character on the show was based on him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I am the only Canadian Olympic snowboard gold medalist, with blue eyes, blonde hair who lives in Whistler,&#8221; said Rebagliati in a statement. &#8220;The similarities between my personality and the central Whistler program character Beck MacKaye are obvious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am glad I was able to get my message out, as I have worked very hard on my image since returning home from Nagano. I am grateful that CTV has taken this matter seriously and I look forward to working more closely with them in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many may not remember (as the show was cancelled after two seasons) that <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Whistler<\/span> also included the acting talents of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/brandyledford\/brandyledford\/Brandy_Ledford.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brandy Ledford<\/a><\/strong> (aka The former <strong>Mrs. Damian Sanders<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>According to a story in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piquenewsmagazine.com\/pique\/index.php?cat=C_News&amp;content=Rebagliati+settles+1519\" target=\"_blank\">Pique News Magazine<\/a><\/strong>, the details of the settlement were not released, but Ross is looking forward to working with the Canadian TV network when the Olympics come to Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piquenewsmagazine.com\/pique\/index.php?cat=C_News&amp;content=Rebagliati+settles+1519\" target=\"_blank\">Pique News<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Rebagliati, the first snowboarder to ever win an Olympic gold medal has finally settled his two-year old legal dispute with CTV the creators of the TV show Whistler . Apparently, Ross felt he should be paid because he thought a character on the show was based on him. &#8220;I am the only Canadian Olympic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}