A man has filed a defamation lawsuit against a Florida sheriff who posts weekly “Wheel of Fugitive” videos on social media, saying that he wasn’t a fugitive when his name and image appeared several times in 2021 in the sheriff’s posts inspired by the long-running TV game show “Wheel of Fortune.” The man behind the lawsuit is David Gay, who lost his job after his face appeared on the wheel as a missing fugitive. He is seeking more than $50,000 in damages.

A spokesman for the sheriff’s office on Monday didn’t respond to an emailed inquiry seeking comment about the lawsuit, but Ivey has told the Associated Press that “everybody watches it.”