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Posted Oct 16th 2009 2:05PM by TMZ Staff
UPDATE 2:20 PM ET -- A TLC official tells TMZ the Heene family approached the network "months ago" with a reality show idea, but the network passed.
TMZ has learned the Heene family has been pitching a reality show about the wacky family, as one TV source put it, "all over town."
We're told Richard Heene pitched a series to Relativity Real, as well as RDF Productions. RDF produces "Wife Swap," on which the family appeared back in March.
We're also told the Heene's have made the rounds at the networks, including TLC. Of course, TLC produced "Jon & Kate Plus 8."
So is balloon boy the ultimate reality show pitch?
Stay tuned...
Filed under: TV, Exclusives, Balloon Boy
Tags: balloon boy, BalloonBoy, heene family, HeeneFamily, reality show, RealityReal, RealityShow, richard heene, RichardHeene, tlc, wife swap, WifeSwap
Posted Oct 15th 2009 2:43PM by TMZ Staff
UPDATE: Police are reportedly looking for a box that was attached to the bottom of the balloon -- a box Falcon's brother says he saw him go into before it took off.
UPDATE: Police are currently conducting a ground search for the boy.
UPDATE: We just heard on a police scanner that the boy is not inside the balloon. The balloon was in the air for over two hours -- no one knows where the boy is. Cops say they checked the house, and an area where people reported seeing something fall out of the balloon ... nada.
UPDATE: The balloon landed around 40 miles from where it started. It landed well.
A 6-year-old boy somehow climbed inside a homemade, helium-powered aircraft in Ft. Collins, Colorado -- and now the craft is careening out of control with the boy stuck inside.
The Larimer County Sheriff's Office says the 6-year-old boy's family was building an experimental aircraft which had a large helium balloon attached to it at their home on Fossil Ridge Road in Fort Collins, this according KDVR in Denver.
The family told officials the boy got onto the aircraft and was able to untie the rope that held the aircraft in place. The device -- which is 20 feet long -- has the potential to rise to 10,000 feet.
The Larimer County Emergency Manager says, "The structure at the bottom of the craft (where the boy is stuck) is made of extremely thin plywood and won't withstand any kind of crash at all."
Story developing...
Filed under: Balloon Boy
Tags: balloon, falcon heene, falcon heeve, FalconHeene, FalconHeeve, wife swap, WifeSwap
Posted Oct 15th 2009 2:40PM by TMZ Staff
UPDATE: The boy was not in the balloon when it landed.
The boy currently flying over Colorado in a homemade flying saucer appeared on "Wife Swap" back in March.
Six-year-old Falcon Heene's family is described as "storm-chasing, science-obsessed Heene family from Colorado" on the show's website -- and sure enough, in the background of the family photo, there's another flying saucer.
Filed under: Balloon Boy
Tags: boy, weather balloon, wife swap, WifeSwap
