jeremy piven

Are you serious? The professional actor and whiner who once claimed he got mercury poising from eating sushi, a claim that would make him the only person in America to have ever come down with such toxicity via the normal consumption of commercial seafood, is making another claim today about how his diet has affected him adversely.

Media Should Continue to Treat Jeremy Piven’s Medical Claims With Skepticism October 9, 2009 Washington - This morning the New York Times published yet another installment in the seemingly never-ending dispute between Jeremy Piven and the producers of the Broadway production of David Mamet's "Speed the Plow." The Times article pits Piven's claims of exhaustion caused by mono and mercury poisoning against evidence of nights out at "Entourage" cocktail parties and Britney Spear's birthday party. It makes for a good soap opera, but in the real world it doesn't amount to much. Despite the fact that the arbitrator ruled in Piven's favor, the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) continues to caution reporters and editors to treat Piven's medical claims with skepticism. To reiterate, no peer reviewed medical journal has ever published any evidence of a case of methylmercury poisoning caused by the normal consumption of commercial seafood in the U.S. Neither the arbitrator's ruling nor the Times latest rehash of the drama that Broadway types care about changes that simple scientific fact. For NFI's complete archive of statements concerning Piven's claims, click here.  NFI has also published detailed video rebuttals on YouTube to Piven's statements on both Good Morning American and Late Night with David Letterman. For more than 60 years, the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) and its members have provided American families with the variety of sustainable seafood essential to a healthy diet. For more information visit: www.AboutSeafood.com. ### Contact Information:  Gavin Gibbons (703) 752.8891 ggibbons@nfi.org

It would appear that actor Jeremy Piven has fallen prey to one of the deadliest of Hollywood sins-believing his own press. Last night Piven sat across from David Letterman and did his, now tired, song and dance about how he ended up with mercury poisoning from eating seafood-despite what the science says.

This evening actor Jeremy Piven is set to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman and there will no doubt be a laugh or two had about Piven's claims of mercury poisoning and maybe even a mention of the victory handed him by an arbitrator in his contract dispute with Broadway producers. But when all the chuckling is done there are still some serious questions Dave should consider asking Piven about his claims, here are a few of them:

Earlier today it was announced that an arbitrator had ruled in favor of Jeremy Piven and the Actor's Equity Association in the dispute over his abrupt departure from the Broadway production of David Mamet's "Speed the Plow."

Hollywood blogs are a buzz this morning as actor Jeremy Piven has his quasi day in court-also known as a hearing before the Actors' Equity committee. You'll remember producers filed a grievance against Piven saying they didn't believe his outrageous and scientifically flawed claims that he came down with mercury poisoning from eating fish and therefore couldn't finishing out his contract in a play titled Speed the Plow.