Showing posts with label Clements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clements. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Landon Clements Defends Thomas Ravenel After Arrest

We have all witness the rise and fall of Thomas Ravenel.


Though he will never return to Southern Charm and has also been arrested for assault and battery, he still has his defenders.


Former co-star Landon Clements claims that she just can’t imagine him sexually assaulting anyone.



Recently, Southern Charm star Landon Clements attended the Sixth Annual UNICEF Masquerade Ball in downtown Los Angeles.


While there, she spoke to Us Weekly and came to the defense of her disgraced former co-star, Thomas Ravenel.


“I know in my heart that Thomas is a good person,” Landon claims.


That tells a very different story from what most of Thomas’ co-stars and alleged friends have said about him.


Landon continues: “and whatever happened, happened.”


That, at least, is a pretty safe statement to make.



Landon does admit that she doesn’t have any firsthand knowledge about the allegations against him.


“I wasn’t there that night,” she clarifies.


We assume that she’s speaking about the alleged sexual assault of Nanny Dawn, for which he has been arrested.\


To be clear, however, another woman accused him of sexual assault on a different night.


“But,” Landon protests. “I can’t imagine that he would ever hurt anyone.”



It quickly becomes clear that Landon was uncomfortable with discussing Thomas at all.


“Because it is an ongoing court procedure,” Landon says. “I can’t really comment.”


She says this after having already commented, of course.


“And I don’t want to comment,” she continues.


Landon concludes: “I will let the courts take care of it, I suppose.”


Yeah, that’s how it usually works after a creep gets arrested.



In case you’re hazy on the details of the allegations, as Landon appears to be, here is a reminder.


Thomas Ravenel is accused of assaulting his children’s nanny while one of those young children slept nearby.


“While inside the location, the defendant undressed and made sexual advances on the victim,” court documents accuse.


The documents read: “The defendant grabbed the victim’s hand and placed it on his penis before attempting to removed the victim’s clothing.”


“While attempting to remove the victim’s clothing,” the accusation continues. “The victim’s underwire bra cut into her skin and her shirt wrapped around her neck,”


“Which,” the documents say. “Caused the victim to struggle to breathe.’”



Court documents say that Ravenel “pulled down the victim’s pants and said, ‘Show me your p–sy,’ and began grabbing the victim’s vagina.”


Absolutely horrific.


“The victim [then] crouched down to the ground to try and prevent further assault,” the papers explain.


But the accusations say that “the defendant then put his penis in her face and asked, ‘Do you like big dicks?’”


Obviously, even if your literal favorite thing in the world is large penises, without consent, that’s a terrifying situation.


In her own words, Nanny Dawn has shared that she kept quiet during the assault for fear of waking up Ravenel’s young child, who would be traumatized by seeing it.



On a less horrifying subject, Landon was asked about who keeps in touch with her the most.


“Mostly Shep,” she answers.


Shep Rose is quite the character.


“I mean we’ve been friends for so long, he’s like a brother,” she explains. “It’s like a love-hate relationship always, but you know I still talk to him.”


“He was just in England with a bunch of our friends this summer,” she reveals.



“Whitney and I are still super close,” Landon adds, referring to Whitney Sudler-Smith.


“You know I knew Whitney actually from my ex-husband,” she notes. “Because one of my ex-husband’s best friends went to boarding school with him.”


“So it’s all a very tangled web,” she admits.


A lot of rich people know each other through extended family or schooling. It’s part of how they stay on top.


“Even if I don’t talk to them on a regular basis, I doesn’t mean that I don’t love them,” Landon explains.


“They have a big place in my heart always,” she concludes.



Landon Clements is a kindhearted person, but she seems to be directing that kindness at her friend Thomas and not at his alleged victims.


Sometimes, people don’t show you their worst selves.


Thomas will have his day in court. And it’s worth noting that, unfortunately, sexual assault is very difficult to prove in criminal court.


At the time when our court system was designed, sexual assault had a fairly narrow definition, and women were not full citizens — they were closer to property.


Perhaps, however, #MeToo has shifted the culture enough so that Thomas Ravenel’s court case ends the way that Bill Cosby’s has.


We will see.



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Monday, July 25, 2016

Sasha Clements Marries Corbin Bleu!

They grow up so fast.


It seems like only yesterday that Corbin Bleu was singing and dancing his way into our heart as fictional student Chad Danforth in High School Musical.



And now Bleu isn’t just all grown up…


… he’s married!


A rep for the handsome actor has confirmed that Bleu exchanged vows over the weekend with Sasha Clements, his girlfriend over approximately five years.


The two got engaged in front of Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World in Orlando in October 2014… and they did so in epic fashion.


The former Disney actor popped the biggest question of his life via a gorgeous engagement ring that was placed inside of a glass slipper. Pretty smooth, no?!?


The pair met way back in September 2011 at a grocery store in Toronto.


Days prior to their wedding Clements – an actress best known for her role in Teletoon’s Majority Rules! – celebrated at her bachelorette party at the Malibu Wine Safaris.


She shared a picture from that trip on Instagram, leading to Bleu making a funny crack in response.


“Right before @a_giraffe_named_stanley tried to get to 1st base with my future wifey. Thank you @malibusafaris for making her day perfect! #sashasbachelorette,” he wrote as a caption to the following picture.



Since rising to fame in High School Musical, Bleu has gone on to make appearances in such shows as The Beautiful Life, One Life to Live and Drop Dead Diva.


Please join us in sending the very best wishes to Bleu and Clements.


They seem like a very happy couple, don’t they?