Your Pitchmen News: Billy & Sully Get a Show, Vince Gets Arrested

By Matt Van Hoven 

Three of the world’s best known TV pitchmen are all off the market, so if you were planning to hire them for your next infomercial you’ll have to look elsewhere.

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First up Vince Shlomi, iconic ShamWow shiller and Slapchop salesman, was arrested on felony battery charges last month after getting into a full-on fist fight with a Miami hooker.

“Shlomi told cops he paid [Sasha] Harris about $1000 in cash after she “propositioned him for straight sex.” Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly “bit his tongue and would not let go.” Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue. The affidavit…notes that during the 4 AM fight Harris sustained facial fractures and lacerations all over her face…. After freeing his tongue, a bleeding Shlomi ran to the [hotel] lobby, where security summoned cops. Harris refused to cooperate with officers, who recovered $930 from her purse.”

Classy. This is why you never kiss a hooker people.

Then there’s Vince’s rival, Billy Mays. He and Aussie pitchdude Anthony Sullivan (aka Sully) got a deal with the Discovery Channel for a new show, Pitchmen (which until recently was slated to be called, “But wait…there’s more.” The show takes you behind the scenes of the infomercials to the initial meetings with the inventors whose products Sully and Mays have become famous selling.

Actually the hosts are the ones getting pitched to, but that’s neither here nor there. We don’t have a promo for you yet, but it’s been running all weekend on Discovery so go watch some TV already. After all, “the world is just awesome.”

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