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Eat Good To-Go St. Calendar Events in St. Louis Sponsored Articles. Classifieds Job Listings. As mentioned earlier, in Season 3, Miller clashed with former manager Aubry Fisher.
But even after she was let go, things didn't exactly get better for Corey. He would also clash with Von D, and by the end of Season 3, his future with High Voltage was on the line.
At the Season 4 premiere, the issues spiraled into Miller quitting and leaving the shop, per Entertainment Weekly. Apparently it was a decision he starts to regret, and the rest of the season follows Miller's journey to getting rehired. In an interview with RiverFront Times before he left, he said doing the show is a worthwhile experience, and he'll be satisfied to have been a part of it. I took the ride. The circus was in town and you do [sic] that. No job title saw as many changes on the show as much as the High Voltage manager position.
When Aubry Fisher was dismissed, she would have two more successors. Elizabeth Friedman ended up replacing her, but she did not last on the show, of course.
In the beginning, her work ethic impressed Kat Von D, but Friedman had issues blending in with the employees that she was managing and overall, the cast of "LA Ink". At the same time, Adrienne Ironside was also a shop manager. She and Friedman often battled it out for control on the series, which led to several meetings with Von D, according to an episode list on IMDb. When Friedman got caught up in a lie, Kat decides to fire her.
Then Ironside takes on the role as sole manager of High Voltage. Luckily for her, she remained in that role until the show ended. Amber 'Pixie' Acia's departure Shutterstock. LA Ink tattoo artists get the boot, too Shutterstock. In an industry built around mutual respect and a code of good faith, the move felt like a deliberate attempt by Kat to drive business away from her former employer, which is frowned upon.
Makes one wonder if she ever ends a business relationship on positive terms. Season three of LA Ink marked a major turning point for the show in terms of making it much more conflict-driven and, presumably, not having Kat's personal drama be the entire focus of the series. Along with the addition of forced villain Aubry Fisher, the producers decided to start featuring interactions with rival shop American Electric and its main artist, Craig Jackman.
As it turned out, Jackman and his shop were just a little too good of competition for Kat and company. Jackman had a very professionally-run shop that didn't have any of the chaos or drama of High Voltage, and rather than stir up a compelling rivalry, Jackman and his shop just ended up making High Voltage look that much worse by comparison.
As the introduction of a "rival" wasn't bringing the sparks that producers had hoped, Jackman and American Electric stopped being featured on the show following the third season. While the show was on the air, you had to wait until the filming day was done to even get in the door if you were just a regular ol' tattoo seeker. And you wouldn't be seeing any of those famous artists. High Voltage had a whole secondary team of artists whose job it was to handle the walk-ins and run the place like a regular tattoo shop when the cameras weren't rolling.
When a typical filming day ended in the early evening, High Voltage would basically flip over into a regular tattoo shop with a whole different set of artists who were never featured on camera. Just to be clear, nobody is making any judgment calls as to the talent level of the so-called "B-team" of High Voltage artists.
They just, for whatever reason, weren't the ones chosen to be among the cast members of LA Ink. It's also entirely possible that some simply chose to remain strictly tattoo artists rather than "celebrities. In a Reddit AMA conducted by someone claiming to have worked for Kat at High Voltage for a time, a tattoo artist claimed that his association with Kat actually hurt his position in the industry rather than helping it.
Due to all the persona drama centering around Kat and the multiple examples of her not conducting herself in the ideal way from a business perspective, the artist says that a lot of doors were closed to him after people found out he had worked for Kat, especially in the Los Angeles area where, he says, Kat's name is tarnished among the local tattoo industry. While celebrity tattooers like Corey Miller and Guy Aitchison did just fine despite their professional proximity to Kat, for artists who aren't already established and world-renowned, it might be best to leave Kat's name off the reference page of their resumes.
Whenever there is a list of secrets about a reality show, one of the entries is inevitably something along the lines of, "Producers ratcheted up the drama for TV. LA Ink definitely presented High Voltage as a chaotic environment full of clashing personalities, and that became more and more what the show became about as it went on.
But sources associated with the LA Ink and High Voltage have claimed that producers actually did a fair amount of editing drama out of the show-- likely at the request of Kat, who was often the cause of, or at least at the center of it.
Maybe one of the reasons TLC ended the show is because the editing budget was far more than they bargained for. Another pal viewers got to see Kat Von D interact with on the show was make-up guru Jeffree Star, a celebrity in his own right who had built up a fair amount of fame through his music career and social media presence. Alas, as it seems to go with most of Kat's high-profile relationships, her friendship with Star eventually went up in very public flames last year via a war of words over Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al.
Among the accusations levied against Jeffree from Kat is that he not only squelches on business deals, but that his "inappropriate behavior" promotes "drug use, racism, and bullying. There's just one problem-- Kat also admitted that she spent years "putting up with" and even apologizing for said behaviors - implying that she was fine with all that racism, bullying, and promotion of drug use until Jeffree got on her bad side, and only then did she suddenly have a problem with it all.
While the show might have made it seem as though anyone can just walk in off the street and get a tattoo from one of High Voltage's celebrity tattoo artists, that definitely wasn't the reality.
In order for a customer to be featured on the show getting a tattoo from Kat, Corey Miller, Hannah Aitchison et al, they had to go through an audition process in front of LA Ink 's producers.
Despite the obvious requirements-- a strong on-camera presence, physical attractiveness, and a willingness to be slightly guided on their "dialogue"-- candidates had to have a compelling story to tell about why they are getting the tattoo they wanted.
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