Humiliation for Hollywood star Vince Vaughn after Jennifer Aniston’s ex was forced to give his free tickets – Daily Mail

Vince Vaughn will travel to the West Indies next month for a series of business events.

However, it appears the 54-year-old Hollywood star’s Sydney show is struggling to sell tickets to the ‘Power of Success’ business conference.

One of the event’s hosts, Ethan Donati, took to Instagram earlier this week with a sponsored post offering free tickets to the conference’s June 5 session.

Tickets for the full-day conference held at The Star Sydney previously started at $156.96 for general admission, with a “platinum” meet-and-greet option with The Wedding Crashers star starting at $527.56.

Daily Mail Australia spoke to Donati on Wednesday, who admitted that “the Vince Vaughn [event] won’t be as big as my others.

The Hollywood comedian, who was romantically involved with Jennifer Aniston, appears to be too expensive for some businessmen.

“We decided to give away a few hundred for free because we received a lot of messages from people saying they wanted to come but couldn’t afford it,” Donati said.

As a result, early ticket holders have had their tickets upgraded and current general admission to the Dodgeball star’s event is now free.

“We upgraded everyone who purchased a general admission ticket to VIP, and then we gave away a few hundred general admission tickets for free for a few weeks,” the conference organizer said.

Donati said that while the event may have been smaller than what he’s used to hosting, he expected a decent crowd.

“There will still be about 1,000 people,” he said.

Vaughn recently confirmed his and Ben Stiller’s interest in doing a follow-up to Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, as long as it involves quality material.

“They’ve always talked about these things forever and I had an idea that was fun and the studio likes it, so we’ll see where it goes,” Vaughn said. The Hollywood Reporter Last year.

In the original film, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, the story follows a group of misfits competing in a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament to save their beloved local gym from the onslaught of a chain fitness chain. ‘business.

It became a hit with fans at the worldwide box office 18 years ago, grossing $188.4 million on a budget of $20 million.

Vaughn, who played Pete LaFleur, owner of Average Joe’s Gym, said Stiller wanted to reprise his role as White Goodman, the owner of Globo Gym who tried to buy out Average Joe’s, but only if there was a fun, original storyline .

‘I think Ben [Stiller] is willing to do it, I think he’s in the same boat as me actually, which is if it’s a really fun, great idea then it’s fun, but if it’s is just something to do again, so why? Vaughn explained.

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