A summer concert with the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles — featuring Emmy Award-winning actor Leslie Jordan — was cut super short after a bomb threat … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us … an evacuation was ordered at the Alex…
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Saturday, June 23, 2018
"Game of Thrones" Stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie Wed in Scotland
The King in the North finally has his Queen … and we’re talking about real life here. Kit Harington, aka Jon Snow from “Game of Thrones,” married Rose Leslie, aka Jon Snow’s former wildling lover Ygritte, in a ceremony Saturday at Kirkton of Rayne…
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Lisa Leslie Rips Trump, "He"s Not About Equality At All"
Lisa Leslie wants to see more equality when it comes to the way women are paid in pro sports — but she’s adamant Trump is NOT the guy to help make that happen. “I don’t think 45 is the person I want to meet for equality,” the WNBA legend told us…
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Manson Family Killer Leslie Van Houten"s Parole Blocked by CA Gov
Manson family killer Leslie Van Houten’s slight whiff of freedom just got snuffed out by Cali Gov. Jerry Brown. Gov. Brown kept his streak going, and once again reversed the parole board’s recommendation Van Houten be released. Back in September the…
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
"SNL" Star Leslie Jones Gets Hilarious Shoe Proposal from Dwyane Wade
Leslie Jones REALLY likes Dwyane Wade — or maybe she’s just an undercover sneakerhead?? Probably both — ‘cause check out the “SNL” star fangirling out like a teeny bopper at a Britney concert when D-Wade hooks her up with his game-worn shoes ……
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Kit Harington Bends the Knee, Proposes to Rose Leslie!
To conclude Game of Thrones Season 7, Jon Snow bended the knee and pledged his loyalty to Daenerys Targaryen.
He then made sweet, sweet love to her on a boat.
Now, in a prime example of life imitating art, the actor who portrays Jon Snow on this HBO epic has gotten down on one knee and proposed marriage to Rose Leslie!
And she said yes!
So we can only presume some sweet lovemaking commenced following this exciting development as well.
(We can also presume that Leslie is NOT Kit Harington’s aunt, making their relationship far less sordid and controversial than the fictional one between Jon Snow and the Mother of Dragons.)
Harington and Leslie met on the set of Game of Thrones.
Leslie’s character of Ygritte was a Wildling who took Jon Snow’s virginity inside a cave and who was later killed off during a battle at The Wall on Season 4.
The stars themselves, meanwhile, have been dating for about five years now.
Speculation over their engaged status started in earnest over the summer, with The Sun now reporting that Harington and Leslie have been telling friends and loved ones that they are, indeed, betrothed.
Details on the proposal aren’t clear at this time, however.
“They’re yet to set a date, but told friends and family last week that they’ve got engaged,” an insider tells this British newspaper, adding of the actor:
“Kit’s known for ages he’s wanted to marry Rose but he wanted them to get a house and settle down a bit first.”
The couple recently moved in to a mansion in East Anglia, setting up this next logical move in their relationship.
“He felt it was the right time to take the next step,” a source says of Harington.
The handsome star, of course, has anchored Game of Thrones in the vital role of Jon Snow ever since the drama premiered on HBO.
Leslie, meanwhile, also appeared on numerous episodes of Downton Abbey and is now a series regular on The Good Fight.
Seeing as the pair shot down engagement rumors reported by Life & Style a few months ago, and yet have NOT denied this new round of chatter, we’re going to go ahead and assume it’s accurate.
In which case: Congratulations to Harington and Leslie!
Jon Snow may know nothing…
… but the man who brings him to life sure knows how to lock down a beautiful woman!
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Manson Family Killer Leslie Van Houten Granted Parole Suitability
The youngest member of Charles Manson’s murderous family went before a parole panel for the 21st time … and took a big step toward being released. Leslie Van Houten — now 68 years old — was granted parole suitability at a hearing at the…
Monday, August 28, 2017
Leslie Jones Live Tweets GoT Finale, Can"t F-ckin Deal
The Game of Thrones season finale delivered one surprise after another, from Cersei turning on her brother… to Sansa sentencing Littlefinger to die… to Jon and Dany totally getting it on.
That would be nephew Jon and his aunt Dany, that is.
And Leslie Jones didn"t merely take in every detail — she live-Tweeted every detail!
Much to our extreme satisfaction.
Re-watch the finale along with the Saturday Night Live cast member and all her expletive-laden joy below…
1. Is It Hard in Here?
Or is it the Unsullied?
2. Let’s Talk About Cersei’s Real Crime
That sweater, right?!?
3. The Meeting is On
Let’s do this!
4. The Hound and Brienne 4eva!
Sorry, Tormund.
5. We’re on Team Bron
But who isn’t, right?!?
6. Beware, Cersei
Did you really need me to tell you that?
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Leslie Jones: The Ritz-Carlton Hates Black People!
Leslie Jones has made a name for herself on Saturday Night Live by being loud and outspoken.
But it’s pretty clear at this point that such a persona is not an act.
The comedian, who hosted the BET Awards on Saturday night and who has made her attraction to John Mayer VERY well known over the years, took to Twitter on Monday and went after one of the most popular hotels in Los Angeles.
“Wow was such a great night at the BET awards,” the 49-year old wrote to her 600,000 Twitter followers on Monday afternoon.
Unfortunately, Jones’ evening ended on a negative note, as she had “THE WORST STAY” ever at the luxury hotel, she added, writing in all capital and very accusatory letters:
DO NOT STAY THERE!! THEY DONT LIKE BLACK PEOPLE!!
Wow. Well… okay then!
We had no idea George W. Bush ran The Ritz-Carlton.
(That’s a Kanye West-inspired joke from the rapper’s Hurricane Katrina telethon appearance way back in 2005.)
It’s unclear what prompted this outburst from Jones.
She didn’t elaborate on her controversial viewpoint and has gone Twitter silent ever since sharing it with the virtual world.
To the chain’s credit, however, a customer service rep replied to Jones pretty quickly, Tweeting on Monday:
“We’re very sorry to hear this. We pride ourselves on providing excellent service to all. Please DM us & we’ll look into this right away.”
Perhaps Jones did direct message the hotel. We can’t say for certain.
We just know she hasn’t mentioned anything to the public about what incident led her to make such a strong statement in the first place.
And until that public hears otherwise, it appears as if many fans of the star’s are organizing a boycott of the Ritz-Carlton.
Or at least joking about taking such action against the property.
“This is an easy boycott cause I can’t afford the ritz,” joked one fan about the swanky hotel, where a regular summer Sunday night room rate at the Los Angeles venue ranges from $ 489 all the way up to $ 2,500 for a top-notch executive suite.
The Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles is near the Microsoft Theater, where the BET Awards were held.
Jones, meanwhile, returned to Twitter in September after a brief hiatus because some idiot hacker broke into her account and released a number of naked photos.
“Thanks to my fans and friends! I’m soooooo ok really,” she wrote at the time, adding:
“And I will always be funny been through a lot in my life and I ALWAYS GET BACK UP!”
Jones has also made it clear in the past that she has no problem standing up to trolls.
So, overall, we have no idea what transpired over the weekend at the Ritz-Carlton.
All we know is that we’d never want to get on the bad side of Leslie Jones.
Good luck with that, hotel staff members and executives.
Leslie Jones Rips Ritz-Carlton Hotels, "They Don"t Like Black People"
Leslie Jones ain’t putting on the Ritz — she’s pissed about the service she got at L.A.’s Ritz-Carlton, and fired back at the hotel the same way Kanye West did George Dubya. Fresh off hosting the BET Awards in downtown L.A. — right next to…
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Leslie Van Houten"s Plea for Freedom, "Mature" and Out of Charles Manson"s Control
Leslie Van Houten deserves parole from her life sentence because she was too immature to understand her savage actions in the Manson family killing spree … according to new legal docs. Leslie’s lawyer, Richard Pfeiffer, submitted a 13-page…
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Manson Family Murder Leslie Van Houten "Memba Her?!
Leslie Van Houten was only 19 years old when she was sentenced to life in prison in connection with the Leno and Rosemary LaBianca murders back in 1969. Guess what she looks like now at 67!
Manson Family Murder Leslie Van Houten "Memba Her?!
Leslie Van Houten was only 19 years old when she was sentenced to life in prison in connection with the Leno and Rosemary LaBianca murders back in 1969. Guess what she looks like now at 67!
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Parks and Recreation"s Leslie Knope: It"ll Be OK, America!
Let’s be real: Leslie Knope is a true American hero.
You may have seen some of her work on Parks and Recreation, one of the best sitcoms of all time, or perhaps you just know of her excellent work for the actual Parks and Recreation department in Pawnee, Indiana.
But if you’re not familiar with her, then just know that she wrote a letter to all of America today, discussing our new president, Donald Trump.
And the letter is probably the most comforting, most magical thing we’ve read all week.
Dear America,
Amidst the confusion, and despair, and disbelief, it was suggested to me by a very close friend of mine (I won’t say her name, to protect her identity) (Ann. It was Ann) that perhaps a few people would enjoy hearing my thoughts on this election.
So I sat down at my computer, cleared my head, and opened a document. Then I started crying.
So I had some hot chocolate, and my close friend (Ann) rubbed my back for a while, and I got myself together, and sat down. And started crying.
Then more Ann comforting me, and more hot chocolate, and back and forth like that for about six hours or so, the chain of hot-chocolate-and-back-rubs only interrupted briefly when I had to run to the store for more hot chocolate packets (“Just give me all of them, all the boxes,” I remember saying, through tears, to a very scared stockroom boy) and now I am ready to go.
When I was in fourth grade, my teacher Mrs. Kolphner taught us a social studies lesson.
The seventeen students in our class were introduced to two fictional candidates: a smart if slightly bookish-looking cartoon tortoise named Greenie, and a cool-looking jaguar named Speedy.
Rick Dissellio read a speech from Speedy, in which he promised that if elected he would end school early, have extra recess, and provide endless lunches of chocolate pizzandy. (A local Pawnee delicacy at the time — deep fried pizza where the crust was candy bars.)
Then I read a speech from Greenie, who promised to go slow and steady, think about the problems of our school, and try her best to solve them in a way that would benefit most people. Then Mrs. Kolphner had us vote on who should be Class President.
I think you know where this is going.
Except you don’t, because before we voted, Greg Laresque asked if he could nominate a third candidate, and Mrs. Kolphner said “Sure! The essence of democracy is that everyone –” and Greg cut her off and said “I nominate a T. rex named Dr. Farts who wears sunglasses and plays the saxophone, and his plan is to fart as much as possible and eat all the teachers,” and everyone laughed.
And before Mrs. Kolphner could blink, Dr. Farts the T. rex had been elected President of Pawnee Elementary School in a 1984 Reagen-esque landslide, with my one vote for Greenie the Tortoise playing the role of “Minnesota.”
After class I was inconsolable. Once all the other kids left, Mrs. Kolphner came over and put her arm around me. She told me I had done a great job advocating for Greenie the Tortoise.
Through tears I remember saying, “How good, exactly?” and she said “Very very good,” and I said “Good enough to –?” and she sighed and went to her desk to get one of the silver stars she gave out to kids who did a good job on something, and as I tearfully added it to my Silver Star Diary she asked what upset me the most.
“Greenie was the better candidate,” I said. “Greenie should have won.”
She nodded.
“I suppose that was the point of the lesson,” I said.
“Oh no,” she said. “The point of the lesson is: people are unpredictable, and democracy is insane.”
Winston Churchill once said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried.” That is perhaps a pithier and better way to get my point across, than that long anecdote about Mrs. Kolphner.
Should I just erase all of that and start with this? Whatever.
I’m pot-committed now, and is there extra caffeine in that hot chocolate? Because my head feels like a spaceship.
The point is: people making their own decisions is, on balance, better than an autocrat making decisions for them.
It’s just that sometimes those decisions are bad, or self-defeating, or maddening, and a day where you get dressed up in your best victory pantsuit and spend an ungodly amount of money decorating your house with American flags and custom-made cardboard-cutouts of suffragettes in anticipation of a glass-ceiling-shattering historical milestone ends with you getting (metaphorically) eaten by a giant farting T. rex.
Like most people, I deal with tragedy by processing the five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.
My denial over the election results was intense. My anger was (in Ron’s words) “significant.”
My bargaining was short, but creative — I offered my soul and the souls of all my friends in exchange for 60,000 more votes in Milwaukee, to any demon who cared to accept.
(Tom told me it was a horrible deal, but I didn’t care, in that moment.)
My depression I have already mentioned. Which brings us to Acceptance. And here’s what I stand on that:
No. I do not accept it.
I acknowledge that Donald Trump is the President. I understand, intellectually, that he won the election. But I do not accept that our country has descended into the hatred-swirled slop pile that he lives in.
I reject out of hand the notion that we have thrown up our hands and succumbed to racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and crypto-facism.
I do not accept that. I reject that. I fight that.
Today, and tomorrow, and every day until the next election, I reject and fight that story.
I work hard and I form ideas and I meet and talk to other people who feel like me, and we sit down and drink hot chocolate (I have plenty) and we plan. We plan like mofos.
We figure out how to fight back, and do good in this infuriating world that constantly wants to bend toward the bad.
And we will be kind to each other, and supportive of each other’s ideas, and we will do literally anything but accept this as our fate.
And let me say something to the young girls who are reading this. Hi, girls.
On behalf of the grown-ups of America who care about you and your futures, I am awfully sorry about how miserably we screwed this up.
We elected a giant farting T. rex who does not like you, or care about you, or think about you, unless he is scanning your bodies with his creepy T. rex eyes, or trying to physically grab you like a toy his daddy got him (or would have, if his daddy had loved him).
(Sorry, that was a low blow.) (Actually, not sorry, I’m pissed, and I’m on a roll, so zip it, super-ego!)
Our President-Elect is everything you should abhor, and fear, in a male role model.
He has spent his life telling you, and girls and women like you, that your lives are valueless except as sexual objects. He has demeaned you, and belittled you, and put you in a little box to be looked at and not heard.
It is your job, and the job of girls and women like you, to bust out.
You are going to run this country, and this world, very soon.
So you will not listen to this man, or the 75-year-old, doughy-faced, gray-haired nightmare men like him, when they try to tell you where to stand or how to behave or what you can and cannot do with your own bodies, or what you should or should not think with your own minds.
You will not be cowed or discouraged by his stream of retrogressive babble.
You won’t have time to be cowed, because you will be too busy working and learning and communing with other girls and women like you, and when the time comes you will effortlessly flick away his miserable, petty misogynistic worldview like a fly on your picnic potato salad.
He is the present, sadly, but he is not the future. You are the future.
Your strength is a million times his. Your power is a billion times his.
We will acknowledge this result, but we will not accept it. We will overcome it, and we will defeat it.
Now find your team, and get to work.
Love,
Leslie
See what we mean? A true American hero.
We really, really needed one of those.
Monday, September 5, 2016
Leslie Jones Returns to Twitter, Is "Soooooo Ok"
Leslie Jones appreciates your support and kind words.
But she doesn’t really need them.
In late August, hackers broke into Jones’ Twitter account and released nude photos of the actress.
It was merely the latest example of trolls giving the Saturday Night Live and Ghostbusters star a hard time.
One of those trolls, some total loser named Milo Yiannopoulos, has said he’s doing “God’s work” by harassing stars because he wants to prove they are not “fragile wallflowers.”
Why does he care about this?
Like we said: he’s a total loser.
But whatever. Why waste a moment thinking about him or other losers on the Internet?
Jones isn’t about to.
After remaining silent for a couple weeks, Jones returned to Twitter over the weekend and made it clear that she’s doing just fine.
First, the star shared a scene from classic sitcom The Golden Girls, saying over the footage being played:
“I don’t care what nobody say, these bitches make me laugh no matter what the hell is going on, for real.”
She then did address the recent scandalous actions around her account, giving a shout-out to all who have stood by her.
“Thanks to my fans and friends! I’m soooooo ok really. And I will always be funny been through a lot in my life and I ALWAYS GET BACK UP!” she wrote.
Amen, Leslie!
Since becoming one of the summer’s breakout stars, Leslie Jones has had to deal with an influx of unwarranted comments by racists online.
There’s no other way to put it. These people are racist.
The actress called out her these hate-filled morons on Twitter earlier this summer by responding to some of their more pointed attacks.
But it soon became clear that the onslaught of criticism was getting to Jones.
How could it not?!?
Jones later opened up about these trolls during an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, calling the harassment “so gross and mean and unnecessary.”
“What’s scary about the whole thing is the insults didn’t hurt me,” Jones said at the time.
“Unfortunately, I’m used to insults, but what scared me was the injustice of a gang of people jumping against you for such a sick cause.”
It really is sick. Sick and twisted.
Fortunately, Jones appears to now have her groove back, the same groove that prompted NBC to hire her as an Olympics correspondent this summer after her hilarious Tweets about the Games went viral.
Any time one is quoting and praising The Golden Girls online, we’re pretty sure that person will be okay in the end.
Friday, September 2, 2016
Milo Yiannopoulos on Leslie Jones Nude Pic Hack, Racist Trolling: Doing God"s Work Over Here!
Leslie Jones’ nude photo hacker is not only not sorry for what he did, he’s giving himself mad props for trolling and sabotaging the actress.
In fact, he believes he’s doing God’s work!
Between Saturday Night Live and Ghostbusters, and her viral stardom on Twitter and Snapchat, Jones was “slaying all day” in 2016.
Until the wheels fell off earlier this summer.
A notorious Internet troll, Milo Yiannopoulos, went after her hard, then harder, in a brutal Twitter trolling effort that gained global attention.
Then, in the aftermath, someone hacked her personal website and published Leslie Jones nude photos to the world – and a lot more.
Her passport information and her driver’s license were stolen in the hack, which also followed Milo’s vicious trolling spree on Twitter.
Just a day in the life for Milo Yiannopoulos.
“Trolling is very important,” Yiannopoulos told ABC’s Nightline. “I like to think of myself as a virtuous troll, you know? I’m doing God’s work.”
When Jones said how upset she was over the bullying she’d endured, Yiannopoulos told the news show that she’s playing the victim.
“This idea that celebrities are these fragile wallflowers … that the stars of Hollywood blockbusters are sitting at home crying into their iPhones.”
“Give me a break,” he said.
Yiannopoulos says he has beef with the “body positive” movement, feminism in general and other stars like Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer:
“It is insisted upon us that we all pay obeisance to the cult of Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer that they put them on the cover of the magazines.”
He has since been banned from Twitter thanks to Jones’ efforts, but he “would like my account back” so he can resume what he does.
Good luck with that.
Jones, who has gone quiet since the nude photo hack, initially fought back online by exposing some of the hateful tweets she received.
“It’s not called a meltdown when [you’re] defining yourself. Pay attention,” she wrote to one prominent Twitter hater before she added:
“So sad, these people have mothers and sisters and aunts. So f–king sickening … you won’t believe the evil. It’s f–king scary.”
After pointing out some of the cruel comments, Jones scored a win when she was able to get Twitter to permanently suspend accounts.
Alas, it was short-lived.
While no one is defending Milo Yiannopoulos’ actions, his ban from Twitter has triggered debate over whether it violates the 1st Amendment.
“People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter,” a company spokesperson said in announcing the decision.
“But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment.”
What do you think? Does the ban constitute an imposition on the popular (in some circles) web personality’s right to freedom of speech?
Or, conversely, did this living, breathing piece of human garbage merely get what he had coming to him and not a moment too soon?
Hit the comments to discuss.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Leslie Jones Nude Photo Leak: Celebs React
Earlier today, Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones" website was hacked, and explicit photos of the comic were posted on several social media sites.
Within hours, Jones became the top trending topic on Twitter.
Fortunately, much of the talk came from fans and colleagues offering words of encouragement.
Check out the gallery below for some of the most inspirational celebrity responses to the vicious ongoing harassment of one of the comedy world"s top talents:
1. Leslie Jones is a Champion
One of the top names in the comedy world, Jones continues to press on in the face of some truly terrifying cyber-bullying.
2. Katy Perry Supports Leslie Jones
Katy Perry offered words of encouragement to Leslie Jones. She was one of many celebs to express their support for the comedian in the wake of her brutal online harassment.
3. Octavia Spencer Calls It Like It Is
The attacks against Leslie Jones are horrific. The situation seems even worse when you realize that this all stated because of a freakin’ Ghostbusters movie.
4. Questlove Bashes Bullies
Questlove is one of many stars standing up for Leslie Jones. “Sickening” is an apt word for how the comedian has been treated online.
5. Paul Feig is Pissed
Paul Feig directed Jones in the recent Ghostbusters reboot. As you can see, he’s not too thrilled about the way she’s being harassed online.
6. Sam Escobar Speaks Out For Leslie Jones
Sam Escobar is the beauty editor for Good Housekeeping. She tweeted an important reminder that Jones is not alone in being harassed because of her race and gender.
Leslie Jones: Nude Photos Released Following Website Hack
At this point, just about everyone who uses social media has experienced some kind of ugly run-in with an online “troll.”
But few have been harassed as viciously or relentlessly as SNL star Leslie Jones.
The attacks began shortly after Jones was cast in the recent Ghostbusters reboot, and a shocking amount of the insults had a racist or sexist angles.
Jones stood up to the trolls, but despite her awe-inspiring tenacity, she was forced to briefly delete her Twitter account, as the barrage of abuse became too much to handle.
Eventually, the torrent of hateful comments began to subside, but today, Jones is learning yet again that the Internet can be a terrifying and ugly place.
TMZ is reporting that Jones’ website and iCloud were hacked in the worst fashion imaginable.
Not only did the hackers leak nude photos of Jones on several social media sites, they also posted a video of the deceased Cincinnati Zoo gorilla Harambe on the top of her personal website.
The latter act has led many to the conclusion that the hacking should be categorized as a hate crime.
The news comes just one day after Jones was confirmed as a returning cast member for the 42nd season of Saturday Night Live.
Other than race-based hatred, there’s no apparent motive for the hacking.
Jones has yet to respond to the hacking publicly.
After everything that she’s been through in the past few weeks, we wouldn’t be surprised if she decides to take another break from social media.
We’ll have further updates on this appalling story as more information becomes available.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Milo Yiannopoulos BANNED From Twitter Amidst Leslie Jones Attacks
Last week, the widely anticipated and surprisingly controversial all-female Ghostbusters reboot opened to mostly positive reviews and mediocre box office.
But it wasn’t the quality or popularity of the film that drew the most attention on social media in the days following its release.
Sadly, the bulk of the attention on Twitter went to the appalling attacks against Leslie Jones, a beloved SNL castmember and one of the four wildly talented leads of the film.
One of Jones’ more outspoken critics was “alt-conservative” Breitbart News columnist Milo Yiannopoulos, who has now been banned from the popular micro-blogging site after Jones reported some of his more offensive tweets.
“People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter,” a company spokesperson said in a statement provided to BuzzFeed News.
“But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others.”
The move has sparked an intense debate online with many – even some who disagree with Yiannopoulos – expressing their belief that the ban constitutes a troubling imposition on the popular web personality’s freedom of speech.
While the right to tweet is obviously not protected by the Constitution, for web professionals, access to the major social media sites has become necessary to the point that a suspended account is on par with having one’s phone service taken away.
That’s not to say Twitter, Facebook and Instagram shouldn’t exercise their right to remove users due to the nature of the content that they post, but in the interest of maintaining an open dialogue and avoiding an online nanny state, users should be suspended only in cases of bigoted hate speech or persistent harassment.
Whether Yiannopoulis’ tweets fall under either category is a matter that the online community cannot seem to agree on.
“This is the beginning of the end for Twitter,” Yiannopoulos said in a statement about his suspension. “Some people are going to find this perfectly acceptable.”
“Anyone who believes in free speech or is a conservative certainly will not.”
The hashtag #FreeMilo began trending shortly after news of Yiannopoulos’ suspension went public.
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Leslie Jones: Ghostbusters Star Fights Back Against Twitter Trolls!!!
People are awful, as Leslie Jones is showing us.
The Ghostbusters star has been the target of hatred on Twitter, and is doing something about it.
According to E! News, rather than delete her account, Jones is going after every single user who has tweeted something vulgar or offensive.
“I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart,” she wrote.
“All this cause I did a movie.You can hate the movie but the shit I got today…wrong.”
Exposing each user took its toll on the actress, who admitted that it was all getting to be too much.
“I feel like I’m in a personal hell. I didn’t do anything to deserve this. It’s just too much. It shouldn’t be like this. So hurt right now.”
The fact that the Saturday Night Live star has to endure such abuse (over and over and over again) is very tough to watch.
Fortunately, other stars have come to Jones’ defense, including Reese Witherspoon and Loni Love, and a hashtag, #LoveForLeslieJ has been created in support.
When some users claim that Jones was melting down by responding to the hateful tweets, she took them to task.
“It’s not called a meltdown when [you’re] defining yourself. Pay attention,” she shot back.
“So sad, these people have mothers and sisters and aunts. So f–king sickening.”
Ever since the Ghostbusters trailer premiered back in March, Jones has been on the defense against racist and sexually offensive remarks.
According to the star herself, she’s been called an “ape,” received pics of people’s butts, and one person sent an image with “semen” on her face.
Instead of celebrating opening weekend of her movie, Jones has spent all of her time responding to and warding off venomous tweets from people who not only have a few brain cells floating around in their head, but have no problem tearing someone else down.
This is bad. We need to do a better job at being human.
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