Entourage  creator Doug Ellin has spoken out against an ad reuniting Jeremy Piven and Adrian Grenier, calling it a  cheap, shitty imitation  of his beloved HBO comedy.

While Piven and Grenier are technically playing themselves in the ad - not super agent Ari Gold and movie star Vincent Chase - their performances, dialogue and dynamic are certainly reminiscent of  Entourage.  (Piven snakes his way through a mansion party to find Grenier on a yacht, where he pitches him a new movie role.)

 Many people worked really hard to make our show as good as it was,  Ellin wrote on Instagram.  When I see cheap, shitty imitations that try to pass for what we did it makes me puke. 

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On Wednesday, Variety broke the news of Piven and Grenier's on-screen reunion, which took place in a three-minute spot for Jake Paul's gambling app Betr. Ellin said in a video message that he received  400 messages  about the  god-awful commercial,  clarifying that he was not involved in its creation.

Ellin said he's not bitter over not being paid for the ad. He simply wishes the writers of  Entourage  would get more credit for the hard work they put into the scripts and character development, only for their work to be distilled into an  embarrassing  emulation of the HBO hit.

 I watch it and I want to throw up, because I would suffer, along with many other people, over every syllable, every fucking word,  Ellin said.  So I watch this trash, this shit, and go,  Ugh, ugh.' There's no bitterness. I want everyone to get paid, get rich. Just fucking do your own shit. That's all. 

Ellin then seemed to take a shot at Piven - who won three Emmys for playing Ari on the series - claiming that the actor distanced himself from  Entourage  in the years following the 2011 series finale and 2015 movie.

 I not only wrote, we found these people. We cast these people,  Ellin said of forming the  Entourage  ensemble.  I actually had to beg Piven to do the show because he didn't wanna do it. And he didn't wanna talk about it afterwards. Like, he wanted to get away from it, because he had so much better shit going on.

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