Chris Jericho was a guest on Afterbuzz and gave a great revelation on the old GTV angle that seemed to just go nowhere for the WWE. If you don’t remember what GTV was, the WWE would cut into their programming with backstage “hidden camera” videos in black and white showing the wrestlers in embarassing situations. The angle ran for over a year and just ended out of nowhere. Fans have debated what the whole thing was about for years and Chris Jericho finally gives us an answer.
Via Afterbuzz,
“When I did the Live with Chris Jericho with Stephanie at the Titan Studios WWE Studios. GTV was supposed to be Tom Green. Yes. And I just found out about it the other day. I didn’t know! GTV. And remember doesn’t it fit because remember Tom Green used to film stuff you know, pranks, stuff and all that sh## and then what happened was they started planting the seeds for GTV and then Vince actually saw Tom Green’s stuff and said this guy is not funny. Done.” – Chris Jericho
This is how crazy the business is. They ran with this angle and then once Vince McMahon finally got around to watching some of Tom Green’s antics, decided to nix the whole thing. So Tom Green was very close to being a big part of the WWE.