[fluffybear]

From Fox News:

Tragedy has hit a team in charge of facilitating challenges for "The Amazing Race" and other reality shows on the continent of Africa, a source close to the show tells FoxNews.com.
At least two freelance facilitating producers were poisoned -- one fatally -- after a failed shakedown attempt, the source told FoxNews.com.
FoxNews.com also spoke with a person who identified herself as a family member who said the facilitator who died was Jeff Rice.
The family member said Rice's body was found in Uganda.
Details are sketchy, but the source said that after refusing to give in to the demands of local thugs, Rice and another facilitator ended up very sick with poisoning of some kind.
Rice was not currently working on "The Amazing Race," but he had worked on Season 20, which premiered on CBS on Sunday. Rice had also worked on Animal Planet's "Whale Wars" and the South African version of "The Biggest Loser," along with several other series and television movies.

Facilitators are typically local people hired by production companies to make necessary arrangements with local officials before producers come in to shoot scenes for their shows.

 

[SayWhat?]

Not poisoned. Bought and used some bad junk.

KAMPALA | Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:23pm EST

(Reuters) - An American television producer found dead on a hotel balcony in Uganda last week died after taking contaminated cocaine, police and a private investigator said on Saturday.

An official toxicology report confirmed the narcotic was in Jeff Rice's blood, dispelling initial suspicions the father-of-two known for his work on the U.S. show "The Amazing Race," had been poisoned by attackers.

Rice and Fuller were believed to have voluntarily consumed the drugs, meaning Fuller could be prosecuted under Uganda's drug laws. Drug use can carry a jail term in Uganda.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012...RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true