One of the people who could be the extortionist behind the Kevin Hart sexually explicit video contacted his lawyer and offered to take a lie detector test … but the comedian would have to write a huge check to make that happen. Sources familiar…
Showing posts with label Price. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Price. Show all posts
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Kathy Griffin"s Trump Beheading Photo Fetches Huge Price
Kathy Griffin’s photo of a fake, bloody Trump head has would-be buyers chomping at the bit to have it hanging in their living rooms … but the photog has his price, and it’s mighty steep. Sources close to Tyler Shields — who took the…
Friday, September 1, 2017
Jas Prince Springs Into Action Amid Price Gouging Water in Houston
Jas Prince is pissed at scumbags trying to profit off Hurricane Harvey … so he’s stepping in with a HUGE donation. The Houston-native is donating 20,000 cases of water to victims affected by the catastrophic floods. The rapper — along with…
Thursday, August 31, 2017
LaMelo Ball Drops New BBB Shoe with $395 Price Tag!
LaVar Ball is dropping the the price to be a Big Baller — debuting a new BBB shoe, The Melo Ball 1 … and it’s only $ 395!!!! LaVar is calling the shoe a “industry game changer” — and says it was “meticulously designed and inspired by” his…
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Best Buy Apologizes for Price Gouging Water During Hurricane Harvey
One of the Best Buy stores in Houston offered Hurricane Harvey victims bottled water … for a price, a very high one and now the company’s apologizing. The store was caught selling 12-packs of Smartwater for $ 29.98 and 24-packs of Dasani…
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Tupac"s 1996 Hummer Sold for Second Time at Bargain Basement Price
Tupac Shakur’s final ride — a 1996 Hummer he bought a month before he was killed — has found a new owner once again … and the buyer scored a pretty heavy discount. We broke the story … the rapper’s vehicle sold for a whopping $ 337,000 in May…
Monday, July 24, 2017
TMZ Live: Beyonce & Jay-Z: The Price Of Fame!
ON TODAY’S SHOW ‘Housewives Of ATL’: Kim Zolciak Attacks Kenya Moore R. Kelly: Another Alleged Victim Speaks Tyga: Birdman Owes Me Millions Hilary Duff: Jewelry Heist
Friday, July 21, 2017
O.J. Simpson"s Former Agent Will Sell the White Bronco Now if Price is Right
O.J. Simpson’s white Ford Bronco — from the most famous car chase in American history — stands to make its current owner a ton of dough if a buyer steps up to the plate. O.J.’s former sports agent, Mike Gilbert, owns the Bronco, and sources…
Kylie Jenner Sells Starter Home for Modest Profit After Price Drop
Kylie Jenner’s parting ways with the first home she ever bought, but it took one final price slash to make it happen … TMZ has learned. We’re told Kylie sold her 5,100 sq. ft. Calabasas pad for $ 3.15 million, a bit less than the $ 3.3 asking price.…
Friday, July 14, 2017
Katie Price: Maybe I"ll Hire a Prostitute for My Autistic 15-Year-Old!
In a talk show appearance, television personality and former model Katie Price suggested that she"d consider hiring a sex worker for her autistic son, who is currently only fifteen.
There is so much to unpackage here. Because there"s so much wrong, here.
We have the video for you, below, with full context — but no amount of context could make this anything but controversial.
But first, here"s what"s going on.
Katie Price is a television personality these days, but she used to be one of those "top-heavy" models, and she"d model topless.
Essentially, she made millions off of her megaboobs.
She has three children.
Her son, Harvey, is fifteen.
Harvey is on the autistic spectrum.
While there are plenty of autistic folks with basically zero issues in a neurotypical-dominated society, there are some people with autism who need daily assistance to go about their lives.
Harvey, at least for now, needs a fair amount of accommodation, though part of that is because he was born blind.
And Harvey also has Prader-Willi syndrome, which can have a few symptoms such as impaired brain-function — but the primary symptom is an insatiable appetite that can easily lead to massive weight gain.
Katie Price appeared on a talk show, Loose Women, along with a woman who has an adult autistic son and has written a book about her experience as his mother.
The woman"s son also appeared on the show and, honestly, we thought that he did an ample job of speaking for himself and we"d rather have just heard from him.
That woman shared a story about how she"d considered hiring a sex worker for her son when was in his early 20s.
As she tells it, she even drove into what she calls a "red light district," only to get cold feet.
Her son ended up meeting a young woman on his own and dating her — he was just awkward at the time.
(We get the feeling that his mother was panicking that her son would be alone forever, and honestly that whole anecdote is just a huge red flag about the mom)
Katie Price jumps in with her own story, based on Harvey having entered puberty and something that Katie Price"s husband (for now) had suggested:
"Kieran said, ‘Shall we get him a prostitute when he turns 18?’ But I said, ‘But that’s my little Harvey and I don’t want him to do that!’ What do I do? Do I leave it? Or do I let him experience it?"
You"ll see that and the chatter in response in the video below.
This is hardly the first time that Katie Price has made controversial statements on parenting, but still.
But we need to unpack these issues.
Okay, first of all, because this is the most important thing to address:
It"s pretty screwed up that these women seem very content to just talk about autistic folks like they"re wild animals that sometimes end up in people"s houses.
People who have autism are people.
They exist on a very wide and varied spectrum of abilities and experiences.
Television and film tend to portray autistic people as either nonverbal robots "who might be dangerous" or as slightly shy white men who are really, really good at solving crimes.
If you want a better glimpse at some positive and frankly realistic portrayals of an autistic adult, maybe look at Abed Nadir on Community.
Eddie Redmayne"s portrayal of Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was essentially just a male, magical version of Temple Grandin, a famous autistic woman who advocates for livestock welfare and has changed industry standards in the process.
These examples might serve people better than listening to the horror stories of Mommy Bloggers.
Most of the parents in that category are more interested in exploiting their family stories for profit than giving an honest representation of people on the autistic spectrum.
It"s no wonder that this episode proved to be so controversial, right?
A lot of the controversy, however, wasn"t centered upon the weird fetishization of "autism moms."
No, a lot of the Twitter backlash was about the idea of hiring a sex worker.
Not because Harvey is disabled or still a minor or a real person who may or may not want to have sex in a few years, regardless of what his parents assume.
But because there are still people, many of them well-meaning, who believe that sex work is inherently bad.
That"s really no surprise — just think of the ridiculous freakout over Teen Vogue"s anal sex guide.
In this case, though, only some of the people who rail against sex work are just people who are generally tightly wound about sex.
Some people who probably think of themselves as sex-positive act as though all sex work is the same thing as sex trafficking.
Not even a little.
It is absolutely true that sometimes women are kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery in an operation that resembles voluntary sex work.
Except for the voluntary part.
That does not make all sex work involuntary or abusive or anything else.
Like, we know that Qatar has used slave labor in construction.
That does not mean that all construction workers are slaves.
Not all sex workers are desperate to get into a different line of work, either.
Not all porn stars want to be actors and not all escorts dream of a white picket fence.
People who rail against sex work are so often shouting over the voices of actual sex workers.
So a lot of ire was misplaced, basically.
Katie Price, to be fair, is far from the worst offender here.
She only brought this up because the other mom had already shared her story.
But unless it"s something that Harvey actually says that he wants when he"s an adult, she shouldn"t even consider it.
Hopefully the backlash, misguided as much of it might be, will make that clear.
Monday, June 19, 2017
Ice Cube Says He"ll Give BIG3 Venue to Conor, Floyd If the Price Is Right
Ice Cube has a message for Conor and Floyd — if you want the site, the money’s gotta be right. The rap icon — who also runs the BIG3 basketball league — appeared on “Undisputed” on FS1 Monday morning to address the standoff over the…
Friday, May 26, 2017
"The Price is Right" Record Breaker Was Well Trained for Plinko (VIDEO)
The new ‘Price is Right’ legend — who set a new Plinko winnings record — had years of studying under his belt … thanks to his day job. Ryan Belz is the 23-year-old Penn State grad who won $ 31,500 on Thursday’s episode, and he told us he’s…
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Price is Right Contestant Sets Plinko Record, Goes Awesomely Insane
The price was very much right for a contestant named Ryan on Thursday morning.
On the latest edition of this beloved program, this enthusiastic young man was at first called down to play.
He then bid closest the actual price of an item and got to go up on stage with Drew Carey.
And, in case this wasn"t exciting enough for Ryan, he then learned that he would be trying to win lots of money via the most popular game on all of The Price is Right…
… PLINKO!
Dropping his first chip, Ryan won $ 10,000, the most one can win with a single Plinko drop.
But he was just getting started.
From there, he earned himself a $ 1,000 more on his second chip, another $ 10,000 on his third, a meager $ 500 on his fourth drop and then, yes, ANOTHER $ 10,000 on his last!
That would be a total of $ 31,500.
And that would be a new Plinko record!
At this point, both Ryan and the studio audience lost their minds.
Chants of "RYAN! RYAN! RYAN!" broke out inside the venue, with Ryan himself happily joining in.
It was a special and historic moment.
And Twitter was there to document it for all of eternity.
Watch the greatest Plinko game in history now!
Monday, April 10, 2017
Floyd Mayweather"s Bugatti For Sale with $3.95 Million Price Tag! (PHOTOS + GALLERY)
Wanna drive like Floyd Mayweather? If you’ve got a cool $ 4 mil you can buy his old 2015 Bugatti … on eBay! TMZ Sports has learned the boxer recently sold his 2015 Bugatti Grand Sport Vitesse to the Luxury Auto Collection in Scottsdale, AZ ……
Floyd Mayweather"s Bugatti For Sale with $3.95 Million Price Tag! (PHOTOS + GALLERY)
Wanna drive like Floyd Mayweather? If you’ve got a cool $ 4 mil you can buy his old 2015 Bugatti … on eBay! TMZ Sports has learned the boxer recently sold his 2015 Bugatti Grand Sport Vitesse to the Luxury Auto Collection in Scottsdale, AZ ……
Friday, April 7, 2017
Kylie Jenner Slashes Asking Price for Sale of Starter Home (PHOTO GALLERY)
Kylie Jenner is trying to unload the first home she ever bought … so much so, she’s slashing the asking price. Kylie bought the Calabasas house back in 2015 for $ 2.6 million. Since then she’s become a real estate baroness, snagging 3 other homes…
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
"The Price is Right" Contestant Falls on Her Ass After Wheel Spin (VIDEO)
“The Price is Right” contestant Renee was rocking some Drew Carey-themed fingernails on Wednesday’s show, but she’ll be remembered for something else … falling on her ass. Drew warned her to be careful with her fancy nails … which may have…
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Mark Cuban to Obama ... I"ll Sell You 10% of the Mavs ... Here"s My Price! (VIDEO)
If Barack Obama wants to buy a piece of an NBA team … now’s his chance! Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says he’s down to sell 10% of the franchise to the former President of the United States … and he even names his price! Of course,…
Friday, February 10, 2017
"Price is Right" Contestant Drops Epic "ROLL TIDE, ROLL" (VIDEO)
‘Bama just got some love on “The Price Is Right.” A Tide superfan named Annette made it all the way to the big wheel and dropped a primal “ROLL TIDE, ROLL” that shook the studio! Drew Carey even shouts out Nick Saban. …
Thursday, January 26, 2017
"BH Pawn" Star Yossi Dina Says Trump Haters Jack Up Price of His Hair (VIDEO)
Yossi Dina’s got a plan to turn Donald Trump’s famous ‘do into big dough … thanks mostly to all the POTUS haters. We asked the “Beverly Hills Pawn” star if he’d ever consider appraising a lock or 2 of Trump’s hair, and he jumped all over it!…
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