Recently, Netflix aired a documentary about America’s Next Top Model, and there were a lot of shocking reveals that came out of Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.
The most shocking and horrifying reveal was that season 2 contestant, Shandi Sullivan, had blackout drunk sex with a man while the cameras rolled, and captured the moment, and no one in production stopped it from happening.
We were not the only ones who could not believe that production did nothing. Janice Dickinson, who was a judge that season, was also horrified by it.
The World’s First Supermodel made a video and shared her opinion on the situation. “I had absolutely no idea. I swear on my mother and children. If I had found out that was going on at the time, further, when Shandi got into bed at night, and the boy climbed into her bed, they were filming that with cameras in the bedroom. I do not think that is right, and I would have stopped production,” she said. “But when I heard about it, I was fucking livid. Because these young girls need to be protected.”
She then went on to say that she does not believe that cameras should be in the bedrooms and bathrooms, and she has not let production cross that line with her. But she can do that because she is Janice Dickinson. The girls who were on the show did not have the courage or confidence to do so because they were so young. That is why production should have protected them and not used them for ratings.
I believe in people over ratings. But that is me. And yes, I do sometimes watch a reality show for those shocking moments. So I am a guilty viewer. However, knowing what we know about what happened to Shandi, I believe we need to do more to protect the reality show stars. What do you think?
On Sunday, Sean Penn won his third Oscar for his performance in One Battle After Another. However, he was a no-show at the shindig. Where was the Best Supporting Actor? He was supporting the people of Ukraine in their country, who are in one battle after another with Russia.
In honor of his Hollywood sacrifice, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, the CEO of Ukrainian Railways, presented him with an Iron Oscar, which was made from the metal of a railcar that was destroyed by Russia.
Pertsovskyi wrote in Ukrainian (and I translated with Google), “We couldn’t leave Ukraine’s good friend and our beloved passenger without an award – so yesterday we presented Sean with the Iron Oscar! 🏆”
Assuming I know what Penn was thinking, I bet he preferred the iron one over the gold, especially since he gave Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy one of his past Oscar statuettes.
Yesterday was the premiere of A24’s The Drama in Los Angeles, and the film’s star, Zendaya, was the Queen of the Ball as she walked the red carpet in her off-the-shoulder, floor-length white gown.
However, this is not the first time she has had the title in that Vivienne Westwood dress. She wore it in 2015 on another red carpet.
Why did she choose to wear something she had worn before? She told Maura Higgins: “So I was trying to figure out how to theme dress…We just happen to be wearing white a lot. But I didn’t want that to be the only theme. And I know that saying, ‘Something old. Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue.’ So I started with something old. And this is a dress I wore when I was 18 years old to the Oscars, actually, my very first Oscars. And it was a very important moment for me in my life and my career, but also for my family, for my folks. That moment meant a lot to me, so this felt like the right time to bring this one out of the archive. And also, it happened to be a wedding dress. So that worked out too.”
So there y’all have it, Zendaya in a wedding dress. Just not the one she wore to her wedding to her Spider-Man co-star Tom Holland that her long-time stylist, Law Roach, claims to have already happened.
You can see her try to get married to Robert Pattinson on April 3rd.
The first trailer is out for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and it looks more like part of the DC Universe than the Marvel one. As in, it seems very dark and broody. But then again, I have never seen any of the Mr. & Mrs. Tom Holland incarnation of the franchise about Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson. So maybe it is always that way.
However, there was one moment that really stuck out to me. That was when Parker is sitting next to a washer that is washing his Spider-Man suit. Who knew Superheroes could wash their costumes? And now I am left pondering, does that mean they stink after a long day of saving lives and fighting the bad guys? Do they fade over time? Do they shrink? And so on…
Because of that, this film has caught me in its web. Now, I want to see what else they can do that we do in our humdrum lives. So who will be swinging into movie theaters with me on July 31st?
