MTV Catfish Host Nev Schulman Reveals His Reason For Throwing Kidd Cole's Phone In The Water

Schulman’s retrospective on the incident came in June 2014, when a Reddit AMA allowed a fan the opportunity to ask why the television producer drowned Cole’s phone and, more importantly, whether he would ever do it again.

“I don’t think that I would do something like that again,” Schulman responded. “That kid just really got to me, and particularly the disrespect that he showed all of us by choosing to engage with his phone and rudely ignore what we were saying to him.”

But the problems don’t stop with one young man’s perceived lack of regard for his betters at MTV. “Smartphone culture and the amount of time in which everybody now looks down at their phones instead of engaging with other human beings is something that I find very upsetting,” Schulman continued, “and I just felt like doing something about it.”

Vigilante justice is ugly business, and it’s good to hear that Schulman has reconsidered his old phone-throwing ways, even if the stunt regularly lands the episode in question on lists of the best entries in “Catfish” history. What remains a mystery, however, is how anyone clocked as a candidate for a show about people finding love on the internet could possibly be so intrigued by their phone.

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