Louis Theroux has revealed that he cut all ties with Tiger King’s Joe Exotic after he begged for help. The journalist and documentary-maker, 50, has created another documentary about Joe Exotic after the self-proclaimed Tiger King's story proved a huge hit on Netflix .
The Louis’ Wild Weekends star has said that his aim in creating the new documentary is to present a version of Joe that is less of a "caricature" than the Netflix documentary portrayed.
Joe, whose real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is currently behind bars serving a 22-year sentence for animal abuse and an attempted murder-for-hire plot on Carol Baskin - his rival and owner of Big Cat sanctuary.
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