English Teacher creator Brian Jordan Alvarez accused of assault by former collaborator
The Gay And Wondrous Life Of Caleb Gallo star Jon Ebeling says Alvarez assaulted him on set of the webseries.
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Ahead of the premiere of Brian Jordan Alvarez’s critically acclaimed comedy English Teacher, his former webseries co-star Jon Ebeling posted on Instagram that “My personal experience with the creator of this show was much closer to the plot of Baby Reindeer than whatever this is.” Now, he’s detailed his allegations in full in a new piece for Vulture. Alvarez has denied the allegations.
Per the article, Alvarez and Ebeling were close friends when Alvarez cast Ebeling in his webseries The Gay And Wondrous Life Of Caleb Gallo. The plot points of the 2016 show apparently mimicked real life, in which Ebeling began dating Stephanie Koenig (a Caleb Gallo co-star and now writer and star of English Teacher) but also had a sexual encounter with Alvarez. Ebeling now says Alvarez put “insane pressure” on him to hook up and he felt that “this is what I needed to do to keep the peace, to keep seeing Steph, to stay on the show.” Later, though Ebeling says he felt uncomfortable, both Alvarez and Koenig convinced him that the situation was okay; in correspondence provided to Vulture, Koenig writes that “He would never have done anything to hurt you. I think it all just felt right. And free.”