As if interns aren’t exploited enough, the former husband and wife gossip team Rush & Molloy are trying to make some dough off one former coffee-fetcher.
George Rush and Joanna Molloy, who retired their long-running Daily News column last May, hope to squeeze $30,000 out of MTV for the privilege of featuring their former intern, Shallon Lester, in the reality show Downtown Girls, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The couple is suing the cable network, claiming they were stiffed on producer credits and $30,000 in fees regarding the little-seen reality show, according to the suit.
The original idea for Downtown Girls, the couple claims, was to follow two of the tabloid’s gossip-obsessed interns around the city as they trolled the Manhattan nightlife for celebrity missteps.
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