I heard a rumor today that Robb Demerest of GHI was living out his car, a broken man.
Um, I don't know where people come up with things sometimes, but as far as I can tell, it is not true.
First, let me qualify this: We at Claranormal don't trash talk other groups, nor their members. Period. It's just not allowed. However, if a piece of interesting news in our industry comes our way, we will investigate it. After all, we are investigators.
If you check Robb's Twitter, you'll see he was just twitting about finishing another investigation on April 12th, and I have yet to find any bad news about him on any of the message boards.
Rumor: Debunked
One thing I did find was an amazing amount of people blasting Robb, and I fail to understand why. I like him on GHI, and I hear that he's a great guy, so for the life of me I don't know why he has so many detractors. He also has supporters, but they seem to be outnumbered and outgunned. For you detractors, I'll say it out loud: If not for Robb and Barry, I would never have watched that show, and if (and when) Jason and Grant retire from Taps to run their B&B full time (my feeling on this is that it won't be very long from now...) Robb and Barry would be great guys to hand the ball to.
Now, on the GHI cast members who are no longer on the show, Donna, Brian and Andy, I have to say that of the three, I will miss Donna, I'll sort of miss Brian, and I won't miss Andy.
Donna was the case manager for the original TAPS, and as such, you know she has good organizational skills, and is good with people. Those two things are a prerequisite. And she's been there since early on.
On Brian, I think a good part of the time he got the short end of the stick. I know as a lead investigator for our group and as the chief editor for our groups videos, it's really easy to make somebody look like a goofball if you edit video or film a certain way. If anybody knew how much video we throw out versus what we use because somebody says something stupid (and granted, it's usually me...) it'd boggle their mind. I think a little judicious editing could have made Brian look, well, not heroic, but certainly better.
Andy. Hmmm. Won't miss Andy. Andy makes me itch. He makes me want to reach into the TV and pull him through just so I can slap him around some. Probably a nice guy, a good human being, kind to small animals and good to his mother. Still, a slap-fest is called for. No amount of editing could fix this. Maybe it's because he reminds me a little of myself. Every time I see myself on tape, I want to do the same thing, reach through and slap myself into tomorrow. "Oh no no no, don't say it stupid. Don't you dare say the stupid thing I know you're going to say..." goes through my head a lot when I'm editing segments with me in it, and it always ends the same. "Ah, you went and said that stupid thing! You idiot!"
