Tiger King star Joe Exotic is in talks with US broadcaster to host his own radio show from prison while serving 22 year sentence
He’s always been desperate for fame, and finally found himself known around the world while incarcerated and serving out his 22 year sentence.
And now, Joe ‘Exotic’ Maldonado-Passage, 57, is in talks with a US broadcaster to host his own radio show from prison, after being approached with the idea following his star turn in Netflix docuseries Tiger King.
The former GW Exotic Animal Park owner was recently moved to a Texas prison after being convicted in April 2019 of 17 accounts of animal abuse and conspiring to kill Carole Baskin, 58.
Guess who’s back? Joe ‘Exotic’ Maldonado-Passage, 57, is in talks with a US broadcaster to host his own radio show from prison, after starring in Netflix docuseries Tiger King
Joe’s husband Dillon Passage, who wed the former zookeeper in 2017, told Metro: ‘This radio station here in the US wants him to have his own radio show from inside the prison.
‘So we’ll see what happens with that. It’s kind of mind-blowing.’
Talking about Joe’s reaction to the monumental success of Tiger King, Dillon said: ‘I know he absolutely loves the attention. He’s got a load of really good feedback, a lot of letters, a lot of emails.’
Dillon also revealed that Joe has tested negative for coronavirus, and that their usual five calls a day have been cut down as inmates are separated further amid the pandemic.
Convicted: Joe is currently in prison for 17 federal charges of animal abuse, in addition to two counts of murder for hire, a saga which played out in the hit Netflix documentary Tiger King
Married: Joe’s husband Dillon Passage, who wed the former zookeeper in 2017, told Metro: ‘This radio station here in the US wants him to have his own radio show from inside the prison’
The revelation about the possible radio show comes a week after President Donald Trump spoke about Joe Exotic’s lengthy incarceration.
He told a New York Post reporter he’d ‘look into’ possibly pardoning the gun-toting openly gay polygamist, who ran for President in 2016 and Oklahoma Governor in 2018.
Tiger King tells the story of a zoo owner, [Joe Exotic], who spirals out of control amid a cast of eccentric characters in this true murder-for-hire story from the underworld of big cat breeding.
Finally! He’s always been desperate for fame, and finally found himself known around the world while incarcerated and serving a 22 year sentence
Arch nemesis: In April 2019 Joe was sent to prison for 22 years after being convicted of 17 accounts of animal abuse and conspiring to kill Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin, 58
While Joe loves the docuseries, and the fame it’s brought him, his nemesis Big Cat Rescue CEO Carole Baskin has been receiving death threats over the allegations she murdered her millionaire first husband Don Lewis, who went missing in 1997.
Meanwhile, on Sunday Netflix released Tiger King bonus episode titled ‘The Tiger King and I,’ which reunited eight people featured in its No. 1 docuseries.
The biggest revelation was when Joe Exotic TV producer Rick Kirkham told host Joel McHale that former GW Exotic Animal Park owner Joe ‘Exotic’ Maldonado-Passage is actually ‘terrified of big cats.’
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