Couples Therapy: Courtney Stodden & Husband Slept Apart Because She Was 17 During Filming
September 19, 2012 by Hollywoodite
Couples Therapy is pushing ahead with couples who are still together and/ or communicating. Most obviously, former Real Housewives of New York City’s Alex McCord and husband Simon van Kempen who were communicating on Twitter during filming (sources claim they’re on the “verge of a nasty split” though). And Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison who celebrated her 18th birthday last month, posing for birthday photos that were sold to media outlets, and he bought her a dog as a present (although the dog quickly became sick).
Some of the more obvious famewhore couples are faking relationship problems at the behest of producers. Some of them may have real problems. The rest will just be funny. Like this: blogger Nik Richie who refused to shake “child molester” Hutchison’s hand upon their meeting only to call Stodden “trash” to her face for the way she was dressed (Richie runs TheDirty.com so make of the “trash” comment what you will). Here’s a preview of the show.
Incidentally, The Huffington Post reports Stodden had to sleep apart from her husband during filming because she was 17-years-old at the time and sleeping at the treatment center/ set would have breached child labour laws (specifically, she could only film for six-and-a-half hours a day and she couldn’t sleep at the facility the rest of the cast).
Teen bride Courtney Stodden and husband Doug Hutchison will get a chance to show what their relationship is really about on Oct. 3 when the second season of VH1′s Couples Therapy premieres. However, don’t expect to see too much of the controversial couple because California child labor laws forced Courtney to leave the show every night.
“It was totally bizarre,” one show insider tells me. “The whole point of the show was to have all these couples living together in the house. Courtney had to leave Doug every night and go to a hotel so that no labor laws were broken.”
As Courtney was still under the age of 18 when she shot the series, strict laws had to be observed by the producers, limiting the amount of hours each day she could “work.”
“It caused a lot of friction in the house and poor Doug was left by himself a lot of the time when everyone else was a couple,” one insider tells me. “How can you shoot a show called ‘Couples Therapy’ when one couple don’t even share a bedroom together?”
The show debuts at 10 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3 on VH1. – via The Huffington Post.