VH1 'Tough Love' Host Steve Ward Called Vice Girl An 'Illegitimate Person' -- Before Promising Her A Spot On His Reality Show In Exchange For Sex
Aug. 27 2013, Published 4:31 p.m. ET
So much for pillow talk!
A man, identified as VH1 reality star Steve Ward, told a high-priced call girl that she was an "illegitimate person" who was making a dishonest living before promising that he'd have her cast on Tough Love if she serviced him sexually.
In the first few minutes of their conversation, according to a recording of their rendezvous, the individual insisted: "I better at least get a blow job out of this!"
Ward, 32, was recorded on audio tape having sex with the woman, it's now emerged. Today, TheDirty.com released a 23-minute clip of the entire exchange -- including Ward's apparently hypocritical rant.
Upon learning the woman had sex for a living, he began: "I don't expect you to be the high and holy hooker … I wanna be really honest with you. I'm the most honest person you'll ever meet in your life."
The matchmaker continued his love lesson, "If it ain't honest then I don't want anything to do with you. And this is not an honest living what you're doing. It isn't. Because there's bystanders. There's people that could be getting hurt that you don't really give a sh*t about."
Ward, who reportedly has a live-in girlfriend, told the prostitute, "I don't do anything to hurt people."
After lecturing the woman, Ward proposed a deal: "I'm not taking advantage of any situation. You're taking advantage of my information. And if you wanna take advantage of my information, I wanna take advantage of your body. How's that sound?"
"Very funny," the woman answered. "I'm being serious. I contacted you because I'm being serious about finding love."
Ward retorted, "And I contacted you because I seriously want your sex!"
She sighed and answered, "Can you be serious for five seconds?!"
But Ward seemed focused on only one outcome for their rendezvous at the W hotel in Hollywood last December. In the first few moments of the recording, he tells the woman: "This is really erotic to me. I feel like I'm in a '50 Shades of Gray' or something like that. I feel like I'm almost like in a movie. Like this is really arousing to me. Sexually. I'm sexually turned on just the idea of being with you only knowing now what this is."
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"And that's what I'm having a hard time processing, processing these thoughts," he said, admitting his hesitation. "I'm thinking to myself, rationally and logically, people are risk-averse. People don't want to put themselves in jeopardy."
Unfortunately for Ward, taking that risk could cost him. Reps for Ward did not respond to repeated requests for comment, while VH1 has yet to answer a series of questions we put to the network, including if the crooked cupid abused his position and whether it was appropriate to hatch the work-for-sex deal.
