Disgruntled JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater could join the ranks of the Kardashian sisters, Jon and Kate Gosselin and Kimora Lee Simmons after he was offered his own reality show, TMZ reported this morning.
U.S. reality TV show maker Stone and Company Entertainment wants Slater to host a show in which “various disgruntled workers quit their jobs in extravagant ways,” and his lawyer already received the offer, the celebrity website said, citing industry sources.
Slater became a folk hero after his famous exit from a JetBlue plane, where he slid down the jet’s emergency chute with two beers in hand.
A Facebook fan page set up the day of his dramatic exit had more than 209,800 members Monday morning, and even songwriters who penned tributes to Slater were posting them to YouTube.
This comes as investigators are “definitely leaning toward” the idea that Slater’s claims about being assaulted by a passenger are bogus, city law-enforcement sources told The Post.
Probers looking into the flaky flyboy’s famously hasty escape down an emergency chute at JFK last week say they don’t have any evidence backing his version of how he got a bloody cut on his forehead after allegedly feuding with a passenger, one source said.
“A significant number of people said he had the cut before he boarded the plane, and several other passengers said he was acting erratically on the flight,” the source said.
As The Post reported, at least one customer claimed Slater had bloodshot eyes.
Queens DA Richard Brown noted the “seriousness of the crime,” saying Slater’s deployment of the inflatable chute took the plane out of service, could have caused a serious injury to people below, and could have caused passengers to panic.
Slater refused to comment. His lawyer did not return calls.
At JFK, JetBlue crew refused to talk about their rogue compatriot.
JetBlue spokeswoman Jenny Dervin said the company reached out to Slater but hasn’t heard from him yet.
“We just want to know what happened,” she said.
With AP