Derick Dillard: SLAMMED By Duggar Relative For Homophobic Remarks!

If you’re a fan of the Duggar family, then you’re no doubt familiar with the controversy surrounding Derick Dillard.

If you somehow missed the uproar or simply forgot how awful Derick is, here’s a brief refresher:

Back in August of 2017, Derick launched a transphobic tirade against fellow TLC reality star Jazz Jennings.

When fans and pointed out to Derick that he was needlessly bullying a teenage girl, he doubled down with more bigoted remarks.

And when his bosses demanded an apology, Dllard refused.

As a result, Derick was fired from Counting On, which was a devastating blow to his family’s finances in itself.

The situation was made exponentially worse by the fact that Jill Duggar quit the show as a gesture of solidarity.

Derick’s views are pretty much consistent with the far-right ideology espoused by his in-laws, but now it looks as though his own inner circle is turning against him.

In the past week, even Jill Duggar has made comments that have been widely interpreted as critical of Derick’s remarks.

Now, another member of the extended Duggar clan has come forward to more explicitly state his contempt for Dillard’s anti-gay views.

John Andrew Studdard is a cousin of Jill’s who was in attendance at her wedding to Derick in 2014.

Studdard is an LGBTQ activist who expressed his distaste for Derick’s remarks in an interview published today by Radar Online.

“We aren’t close,” Studdard told the outlet. “But I’m sick of hearing his homophobic cries for publicity.”

Studdard added:

“Derick needs to keep his mouth shut.” 

Asked how he feels Derick should address matters of inequality going forward, Studdard replied that he should speak with compassion, or not at all:

“We don’t have to agree with someone’s life, but don’t speak out publicly when you know you’re already disliked by half of America,” he told Radar.

“As a public figure, he should stop being so harsh.”

While we agree with Studdard that Derick should shut his trap, the reason why he should do so isn’t that he’s a public figure, but rather that his views and arguments are so consistently idiotic.

Derick has yet to respond to Studdard’s remarks and it’s unlikely that he ever will.

He generally only enters debates with people who are much younger and much more vulnerable.

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Prince Harry: Dating His Own 19-Year-Old Relative???

Once upon a time, royals married royals with the intention of keeping power in the family and/or creating alliances.  

What they didn’t realize then was that it was incestuous and, well, a little creepy.

Most of today’s royal families are descended from Queen Victoria, whose 9 children married relatives in other European kingdoms to keep the lineage strong.  

Queen Elizabeth II is married to her third cousin, the Duke of Edinburgh, though their union was born out of love.

This brings us to modern-day royals, who prefer to water down their DNA with those who don’t share a link to Victoria.  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are a prime example, as are Crown Prince Pavlos and Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece and Denmark.

The latter couple have five children, the eldest of which is a gorgeous 19-year-old blond studying at NYU.  Her name is Princess Marie-Olympia, but she goes simply by Olympia.

Australian tabloid New Idea recently linked Olympia to Prince Harry, declaring that he has found love, and everyone approves.

“Harry has fallen head over-heels with Maria-Olympia,” someone pretending to be a “royal insider” claims.

“He’s absolutely smitten. They’ve been on a string of dates and are planning to go skiing in Switzerland before Easter.”

Said insider gives credit to Harry’s younger cousin, Princess Beatrice for introducing him to Olympia, who was raised in London.  

Beatrice also set up Harry with his ex-girlfriend, Cressida Bonas.

The magazine reports that “Wills and Kate love Maria-Olympia and think she is Harry’s best girlfriend yet.

“They can’t believe how happy and settled Harry is thanks to Maria-Olympia being in his life – before she came along, he always seemed quite restless, but now he’s much more content.”

So, a little background on how Harry and Olympia are related, albeit very distantly.

Harry’s grandmother and Olympia’s grandfather are both great-great-great-great-great grandchildren of King George II.

Olympia is Queen Victoria’s great-great-great-great granddaughter through the Greek royal line. Harry, 31, is Queen Victoria’s great-great-great-great grandson

Prince Philip, was born a prince of Greece and Denmark before becoming a naturalized British citizen in 1947.

Constantine II is one of Prince William’s godfathers, and the Queen attended Marie-Chantal and Pavlos’ 1995 wedding at Hampton Court Palace in London.

After Olympia’s younger brother, Constantine-Alexios was born in 1998, the crown princely couple asked William to be a godfather, according to The Duchess Diary.

Whether it’s because they’re a little too related for comfort, or due to an 11-year age gap, royal sources have firmly denied any relationship between Harry and Olympia.  

True, she’s a blond and fits his type, and his own parents were 12 years apart, but the story is too asinine to be real.

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