Sean Hetherington

Sean Hetherington is a casting director and reality TV producer. He was formerly a stand-up comic who gained fame after his appearance as a contestant in the second season of NBC's American Gladiators [1] on their Weight Loss Survivors episode.

In 2008, he was cast on the Extreme Weight-Loss edition of NBC's American Gladiators. After his inspired appearance, he gained national media attention in the pages of US WEEKLY [2], AfterElton [3], Sirius Satellite Radio, MTV and E!

After the passage of California's Proposition 8 in 2008, Hetherington and his then boyfriend, Aaron Hartzler, founded the international volunteer movement Day Without A Gay, where LGBT people were asked to call in "gay for the day" and spend the day volunteering as a form of peaceful protest. Day Without A Gay was covered in the New York Times, CNN, and Wall Street Journal.

Since 2010, Hetherington has become best known as casting director and producer on such unscripted shows as TLC's This is Life Live, ABC's Celebrity Wife Swap, Oxygen's The Battle of The Ex-besties, MTV's Real World, CBS' Undercover Boss, and E!'s Famously Single.

Hetherington is an alumnus of Belmont University.