Actor Miles Teller tests positive for Covid after refusing the vaccine and shuts down production

Whiplash star Miles Teller was unvaccinated and refused a Covid test before testing positive on a Hollywood set, shutting down production, a senior industry source claims.

Filming for Paramount Plus Series The Offer was shut down Sunday after a production member tested positive for the virus, according to a studio spokesperson.

And a source close to the executive team for the show told DailyMail.com that that patient is Teller, 34, and that the actor had refused to get a vaccine or a previous Covid test before testing positive on set in Los Angeles.

‘Miles Teller is not vaccinated. He wouldn’t even get the test,’ the source told DailyMail.com. ‘Now he’s brought the virus to the set and the whole set had to shut down.’

The star’s publicist, Lauren Hozempa, told DailyMail.com: ‘Your facts are incorrect,’ but declined to elaborate further.

Property records list Teller’s address as a $2.5 million home in Studio City, Los Angeles. A woman who answered the intercom at the property told DailyMail.com she did not know him, even though a UPS delivery ticket stuck to the intercom was addressed to M. Teller.

Filming for Paramount Plus Series The Offer was shut down Sunday after a production member tested positive for the virus. A source close to the executive team for the show told DailyMail.com that the Covid patient was actor Miles Teller, 34. The source said Teller had refused to get a vaccine or a previous Covid test before testing positive on set in Los Angeles

Teller stars in The Offer, a show about the making of The Godfather, alongside Giovanni Ribisi, Collin Hanks, Matthew Goode, Juno Temple and Dan Fogler

Teller, who had a leading role in The Spectacular Now and the Divergent series, stars in The Offer, a show about the making of the blockbuster 1972 movie The Godfather, alongside Giovanni Ribisi, Collin Hanks, Matthew Goode, Juno Temple and Dan Fogler.

Property records list Teller’s address as a $2.5 million home in Studio City, Los Angeles. A woman who answered the intercom at the property told DailyMail.com she did not know him, even though a UPS delivery ticket stuck to the intercom was addressed to M. Teller

‘Out of an abundance of caution, we have temporarily halted production… We will continue to follow all safety protocols and monitor the situation closely,’ a spokesperson for Paramount Television Studios told Deadline on Sunday.

HBO’s Westworld also paused production for several days last week after discovering covid-19 among its crew.

FX’s American Horror Story recently stopped filming temporarily too after an outbreak.

Francis Ford Coppola directed the classic movie The Godfather, which was adapted from Mario Puzo’s bestselling novel.

The Offer dramatizes two-time Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy’s experience making the movie.

Teller plays Ruddy in the show – a role he took over from Armie Hammer after he was accused of sexual abuse and having cannibalistic fantasies, revealed in explicit texts. 

The actor is also set to star in Top Gun: Maverick, a sequel to the classic Tom Cruise movie slated for a November release.

Teller has been enjoying post-lockdown freedom in recent months, vacationing in Hawaii with his wife Keleigh Sperry Teller, 28, his Divergent co-star Shailene Woodley and her NFL star fiancé Aaron Rodgers. 

Teller has been enjoying post-lockdown freedom in recent months, vacationing in Hawaii with his wife Keleigh Sperry Teller, 28, his Divergent co-star Shailene Woodley and her NFL star fiancé Aaron Rodgers 

Another snap featured all four of them coming down a slope in the hilly countryside while posing gracefully

However the trip was not without a few hiccups. TMZ reported that while the four were at dinner at Monkeypod Kitchen on Maui on May 26, Teller was confronted in the restroom and punched in the face by an unidentified man.

The Offer dramatizes two-time Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy’s (pictured at the 1972 Oscars)  experience making the movie. Teller plays Ruddy in the show

The actor reportedly ‘screamed that he was going to press charges’. Police said they are investigating but have made no arrests.

TMZ reported that the alleged assailant’s wife planned Teller and Sperry’s glamorous 2019 wedding on Maui, but was still allegedly owed $60,000 by the couple.

Tre Lovell, an attorney for the alleged assailant, told E! News: ‘It is my understanding that the altercation was a dispute over money pertaining to the couple’s wedding.

‘We are currently evaluating my clients’ legal claims that may exist surrounding the incident, statements made about the incident and the parties previous business dealings.

‘My clients are considering legal action based upon the incident as well as on the parties’ previous business dealings.’

The wedding planner and her husband have since been identified as Lorrie and Russell Nielson.

Sperry wrote on Instagram after the incident: ‘Miles was jumped by 2 men we have never met after they trapped him in a bathroom. It seems these same men have done this to many people and we appreciate your support Maui. This is now a criminal investigation.’

Teller was not seriously injured in the incident, though days after the altercation he was spotted sporting a black eye.