Showing posts with label Retracts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Retracts. Show all posts

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Thomas Ravenel Hastily Retracts Ashley Jacobs Cheating Claims!

Over the weekend, Thomas Ravenel accused Ashley Jacobs of having cheated on him during their relationship. He didn’t provide any details — he just made the claim.


Ashley denied cheating in a public statement, essentially saying that Thomas was just upset and wanted to lash out.


Now, Thomas is walking back his words — with very good reason.



Taking to Twitter on Wednesday, Thomas writes: “I have no information that Ashley Jacobs ever cheated on me.”


“In fact as far as I know she has always been true and faithful,” Thomas affirms.


Thomas adds that this was true “especially during the really dark times.”


One assumes that he is referring to the multiple accusations of sexual assault that he is facing.


Thomas admits: “She didn’t deserve my insinuations to the contrary.”



RadarOnline reports that Ashley Jacobs threatened legal action over Thomas’ accusatory tweets.


“Ashley was so upset that Thomas accused her of cheating,” an insider tells the tabloid.


It’s true that he didn’t spell out his accusations, but the source says that “even if it wasn’t by name, everyone knows it was about her.”


Yep.


In fact, it’s difficult to read his words as anything else but an accusations that Ashley was screwing around with other dudes during their relationship.



The insider says that “she called his attorney super upset about what he wrote.”


We would imagine so. Ashley’s had enough trouble dating after Thomas as it is.


(To be fair, that’s probably because a lot of people saw her vicious verbal attacks on Southern Charm and don’t want that in their lives)


It’s not clear what she said to the attorney, but apparently it worked, “and Thomas quickly put up the new statement.”


Well, at least that is taken care of.



In case you’ve forgotten Thomas’ words from the weekend, here are his insinuations:


“Today, my personal life just took a huge upward turn,” he wrote. “I finally have more than enough information to move forward without any doubt or hesitation and I’ll never look back.”


On its own, that’s super vague. Unfortunately, he elaborated.


“After 30 years,” Thomas continued. “I finally understand the lyrics from that wonderful Chicago tune:”


He reminds followers of the lyrics: “If she would have been faithful / if she could have been true / then I would have been cheated / I would have never known real love.”



We can’t confirm the report that Ashley made a call to Thomas’ attorney, so it’s always possible that Thomas simply decided to retract those words on his own.


According to a number of his fellow Southern Charm stars, Thomas behaves like a decent guy most of the time.


They — and others — have said that his gentlemanly behavior can sometimes give way and reveal someone with an unkind or even frightening temperament 


The relationship between Ashley and Thomas was unnerving to a number of people, who despite Ashley’s extremely hostile behavior found themselves worried that she was in a toxic relationship.


Hopefully, she can move ahead, work on her behavior, and, in time, leave this chapter of her life behind her.



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Monday, April 30, 2018

Miley Cyrus Retracts Nude Photo Apology, Curses Off Critics

At this stage of her life and career, Miley Cyrus can simulate oral sex on a carrot and spank the Easter Bunny and pretty much no one cares.


That’s just how the singer rolls sometimes.


But let’s take a trip back to 2008, shall we?



A full decade ago, photographer Annie Leibovitz shot a then-15-year-old Miley for Vanity Fair.


And forget Kim Kardashian sticking her butt out in order to rest a glass of champagne on it, THIS picture nearly broke the Internet, considering it featured a very young Cyrus naked.


She was covered by a sheet, but she was fully naked underneath said sheet.


For someone not yet old enough to drive, and someone mostly known at that point for starring on The Disney Channel, this was a jarring image.


See it for yourself below:



And we know what you must be thinking right now:


What? Huh? That picture caused controversy?!?


Cyrus has gotten nude quite a few times since!


It’s true, we know.


But this was 2008. The world was not ready to see Cyrus in such brazen fashion, especially not a 15-year old Cyrus.


“I had a big blanket on. And I thought, ‘This looks pretty, and really natural,"” she told the magazine at the time. “I think it’s really artsy.”


Later on, however, once the backlash really grew intense, Miley issued a different kind of statement.



She said the following as a Mea Culpa:


My goal in my music and my acting is always to make people happy.


For Vanity Fair, I was so honored and thrilled to work with Annie. I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed.


I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about.


In a separate statement, Leibovitz said:


“I’m sorry that my portrait of Miley has been misinterpreted. Miley and I looked at fashion photographs together and we discussed the picture in that context before we shot it… I think it is very beautiful.”


So of all that provides context to Miley’s latest Tweet, which she wrote 10 years after this scandal exploded and which explains how she now feels about the topic:




Miley Cyrus eff you


Including the front page of The New York Post from April 2008, under the headline “MILEY’S SHAME,” Cyrus has retracted the above apology.


“IM NOT SORRY. F–k YOU. #10yearsago,” she wrote.


Cyrus Miley had last addressed the scandalous shoot in 2015.


“Our world revolves around sex. Like, when I did this photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz when I was 14 or 15, everyone jumped to make it this sexual thing,” she told Time Magazine, adding:


“But I never thought of it as sexual. Annie never thought of taking a sexual photo of a teenager. But everyone made it something it wasn’t.”



All these years later, we do understand a lot of the criticism this snapshot produced.


Miley was just so young and the world was not ready to see her as anything but Hannah Montana, let alone as someone willing to pose in such a manner.


But now that we’ve seen what Miley does with a foam finger?


It’s safe to say we’ve been seeing Cyrus in a brand new light for awhile now and we’re very used to it and very cool with it.


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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Kathy Griffin Retracts Apology for Decapitated Donald Trump Photo: What Did She Say?!?

We think it’s fair to say that Kathy Griffin’s career has hit a lull since her controversial photo shoot which involved her posing with Donald Trump’s decapitated head.


Despite there being a lot of naysayers about Donald Trump, a lot of them leaped to his defense when the image started doing the rounds all over the media earlier this year. 



In short, it was a terrible thing to do, and Kathy lost out on a lot as a result of it. She was fired from her hosting gig on CNN, and her tour was canceled because the sheer amount of hate being sent towards her. 


But what did she really expect to happen when she posed with the decapitated head of the President of the United States? Kathy realized very quickly what she lost and released a video apologizing. 


I sincerely apologize,” she said in the clip at the time.


“I am just now seeing the reaction [to] these images. I’m a comic. I cross the line. I move the line, then I cross it. I went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people. It wasn’t funny. I get it.”



Everyone makes mistakes, so some were likely happy that the comedian came out and owned up to her mistake. So, color us surprised to find out that she is now taking her apology back. 


Speaking with Austalia’s Sunrise, the disgraced comedian wasted no time and cut straight to the chase when the topic came up. 


“I’m no longer sorry,” she boldly declared in the interview.


“The whole outrage was BS. The whole thing got so blown out of proportion.”


Now, some people definitely did take their hate to extreme measures by sending death threats to the star, but you would think it’s something Kathy would like to draw a line under. 



Instead, she seems dead set on making some money out of it as other avenues are probably drying up right about now. 


Griffin then went on to name and shame some of the people who turned against her in the aftermath. 


“I lost everybody,” she said.


“I had Chelsea Clinton tweeting against me. I had friends, Debra Messing from Will & Grace, tweeting against me. I lost everybody.”


“I have been through the mill, and I didn’t just lose one night on CNN,” she continued. “These Trump fans, they’re hardcore.”


The show’s anchor Samantha Armytage then noted that Clinton and Messing are not Trump supporters while trying to get Griffin to agree she was wrong.  



“Even Democrats said it was out of line,” she said.


“I get that comedy is about pushing the boundaries and being politically incorrect, and that’s fine. But do you not agree that that picture, holding up a severed head, I know it’s a mask covered in tomato sauce, but do you not accept that that was a little bit over the line?”


“No, you’re full of crap,” Griffin responded, before taking aim once again at Donald Trump. 


“Stop acting like my little picture is more important than talking about the actual atrocities that the president of the united states is committing.”


Um, WHAT?



That’s all we can muster after that. 


What do you think about it?


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