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I guess when the nice lady gets pushed, she suggests maybe she should change.

After her season of discontent—a Twitter user urged people to post nasty stories about her and then she did her show from home and compared it to being in prison—Ellen DeGeneres is trying hard to shove her image back to likability, and stepped in it badly when she tried to show compassion for the murder of George Floyd by tossing a Palinesque word salad Tweet:

“For things to change, things must change.” 

And when the backlash ensued, Ellen deleted that idiotic fluff Tweet and said she will do and say more to help the Black Lives Matter movement and become a more useful ally:

“I stand with the protestors who are exercising their rights and I want to be an ally fighting for change. As a white person, I don’t always know what to say. I think right now white people have to just sit in our discomfort and we have to admit there’s a lot we don’t know about black people’s lives and about a black person’s experience. There is horrible injustice towards black people that has been ignored for far too long. I like to think that I’m doing my best, but I think it’s time that we have to look at ourselves and we have to say we have not done enough. I want to learn how to be a better person, how to do better. I was the dancing lady for a little while and now I want to help educate my audience. I want to educate myself.”

Nice Ellen, but you forgot you’re a rich white person, so that makes you less like even white people in this country. You at a protest would probably get an escort out of the march, while if I was at the same protest I might be bludgeoned by the police.

What I’m  saying, El, is less talk, and more action. Words are meaningless unless you actually do something.

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Even though Lori Loughlin pleaded guilty to being a horrible mother trying to bribe her kid’s way into a good college, she’s not giving up on coming back to TV …as an actress and not a defendant.

Lori and her husband Mossimo Giannulli finally pleaded guilty for their involvement in the College Admissions Scandal, in which they paid $500,000 to Rick Singer to get their nearly illiterate daughters. Lori took a plea of two months in prison, while Mossimo agreed to five, and if a judge signs off on the plea deal, Lori must pay a $150,000 fine, do two years of supervised release, and 100 hours of community service, while Mossimo must pay $250,000, serve two years of supervised release, and complete 250 hours of community service.

But after that Lori wants to get back to acting. I think a good place to start would be Lori Loughlin “acting” like she felt remorse for being a terrible parent, a horrible human being, and a despicable self-entitled ass.

But that’s just me.

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After Faith Stowers called out the racism she experienced while working Vanderpump Rules, Bravo was forced to take action and fired four cast members over a plethora of racist behavior and tweets and stupid, stupid comments.

Gone are longtime reality show idiots Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute, along with newcomers Max Boyens, and Brett Caprioni. Kristen and Stassi were the original members called out—Stassi had a long and recorded history of racist talk—but Max and Brett faced backlash for their own racism-is-funny-until-I-get-caught-and-then-I-havepretend-remorse tweets earlier in the season of the show.

Faith said she felt “vindicated” by the action, but it seems she’s not done trying to clean house; she also wants VPR’s manwhore, Jax Taylor, fired , too:

“I didn’t even know the depth of the crazy things that they were saying [but] I got DMs from other shows, from other females on other shows saying that Mr. Taylor had said some crazy things to them that were racial. So, I think he gets a pat on the back a lot. But I think that if you’re going to do it for [four] people, they should do it for some other people as well.”

Billie Lee, who used to appear on VPR, has already called for Taylor’s firing saying that he refused to work with her because she’s trans.

So, racist and transphobic, a manwhore, and a basic douchebag; not all fireable offenses but …

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Last week Justin Bieber crapped out a statement in which he apologized co-opting black culture as his own, um, musical style. But is that the only time Justin used the black community to push himself ahead?

Not according to one Lil Twist, AKA Christopher Lynn Moore, who was a member of Bieber‘s posse ten years back. This week, Twist revealed that while he was rolling with The Biebs, he was used by Justin’s management team to take the fall for drug charges.

Appearing on Mina SayWhat’s podcast Mina’s House, Twist says that Justin’s team was awful to him, and that he “took that heat” for weed charges:

“If they would have put weed charges on Justin in his early career. It would have been bad on him. So, I got a call one day saying, 'Twist, do you really love this kid?' I said, 'Yes.' They said, 'Cool, if you love him then you can take the heat for him because you can come off a little weed charge. You’re associated with Lil Wayne. You’re a rapper.'”

And so, he did it because, well, clearly, he’s a moron. Twist was arrested in 2013 twice while in Justin’s cars and also ALLEGEDLY had a huge weed-filled party at Justin’s mansion; he even says that sometimes he wouldn’t even be at the scene of the crime and would still get blamed:

“It got to a point where I didn’t even have to be there at times and they were putting it, ‘Twist did it, Twist did it, Twist did it,’… It became overwhelming.”

A source—and it’s possibly Justin, co-opting another friend—says Justin doesn’t remember doing anything of the sort:

“Justin and Twist don’t have a relationship anymore, Justin wishes Twist well and finds these comments unfortunate and completely untrue.”

I’m kinda Team Lil Twist, because Lil Justin seems like a Lil Liar.

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I can’t believe it, but it appears that Hell has finally frozen over:

After several in the fashion biz, most notably Andre Leon Talley, called out Anna Wintour for being a bitch and perhaps even a racist, Anna … Wintour … is … apologizing in a note sent out to staff last week:

“I want to start by acknowledging your feelings and expressing my empathy towards what so many of you are going through: sadness, hurt, and anger too.”

And stop. Anna Wintour and empathy go together like Chanel and Crocs, but:

“I want to say this especially to the Black members of our team — I can only imagine what these days have been like.”

And stop, because, like Ellen, a rich white powerful woman knows what it’s like to be black. No, Anna, you cannot imagine, but:

“But I also know that the hurt, and violence, and injustice we’re seeing and talking about have been around for a long time. Recognizing it and doing something about it is overdue.”

And stop; but then, if you know it’s overdue, why haven’t you done something before now? Oh, because you, and Vogue apparently have a history of not promoting, hiring, helping black employees:

“I want to say plainly that I know Vogue has not found enough ways to elevate and give space to Black editors, writers, photographers, designers and other creators. We have made mistakes too, publishing images or stories that have been hurtful or intolerant. I take full responsibility for those mistakes. It can’t be easy to be a Black employee at Vogue, and there are too few of you. I know that it is not enough to say we will do better, but we will—and please know that I value your voices and responses as we move forward. I am listening and would like to hear your feedback and your advice if you would like to share either.”

But please go through proper channels because, well, Anna can’t make room for just anyone with a complaint.

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