14 DAY TRIAL // As the entire world must know by now, Paramount Pictures has recently confirmed that the third installment in the “Transformers” franchise will happen without one of its biggest stars, stunner Megan Fox. Her rep insists she left of her own will but will not detail on what made her come to this decision. Speculation says it was Bay’s horrible ways that got Fox to leave – and sources confirm for Ted Casablanca of E!’s The Awful Truth that this was actually the case.
Word in the industry also has it that Fox may have decided to quit the franchise because she wasn’t paid enough money and only got small pickings for the sequel, especially when compared to her co-star Shia LaBeouf. Other sources, however, say that it was not an $800,000 paycheck for “Transformers 2” that made Fox see she did not want to be a part of “3” but rather thinking about what making another movie with Michael Bay would mean.
Consequently, she decided that hours upon hours of verbal abuse was not worth the exposure she’d get by making the third film so she handed in her resignation, so to speak. “This was never about money. It’s always been how she was treated as a human being, it just wasn’t good. [Megan] would constantly complain about having to go to work, she never wanted to do it. Bay would constantly scream at her. He would scream at everyone, but especially Megan. Imagine a really, really [annoying] grandmother on the set, and that’s what Michael Bay is like,” a spy says for E!
“[Bay] certainly has the reputation around town of being very hard to work for, especially if you’re a woman. Our Transformers insider says Megan told him: ‘All [Bay] wants to do is shoot my [backside] and my [cleavage], I hate him!”’ While Megan’s mouthing-off ways may helped seal her Transformers 3 fate, our Fox insider adds Megan would have ‘never’ gone back, anyway. ‘Not the way she was treated’,” Casablanca writes in the same report, citing various sources.
Even better, the tipsters go on to say, ever since she made the announcement that she wouldn’t be returning for the third film and it went to press, there hasn’t been a second where Fox came to regret her decision. She is happy with how things in her career are right now and she’s looking forward from moving past “Transformers,” the same sources reveal. Heidi Montag, on the other hand, can think of little else.