Matthew Morrison Reads Alleged Text Sent To So You Think You Can Dance Contestant; Says “I Have Nothing To Hide”
June 03, 2022
So You Think You Can Dance returned after a three-year hiatus with all-new judges and a brand-new scandal. The new judging panel for Season 17 consisted of Stephen “tWitch” Boss, JoJo Siwa, and Matthew Morrison. tWitch was a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance, so he knows all about the competition.
JoJo appeared on Season 30 of Dancing with the Stars and was the first contestant to have a same-sex partner. JoJo’s partner, Jenna Johnson, was once a contestant on SYTYCD. Interesting, right?
Then we have Matthew. He is not only a Broadway star but also starred on the TV show, Glee. Shortly after the SYTYCD premiere, Matthew announced in a statement on May 27, 2022, that he was leaving his new gig. “Having the opportunity to be a judge on So You Think You Can Dance was an incredible honor for me,” Matthew said in the statement. “Therefore, it is my deepest regret to inform you that I will be leaving the show.” That was a shocker.
“After filming the audition rounds for the show and completing the selection of the 12 finalists, I did not follow competition production protocols, preventing me from being able to judge the competition fairly,” Matthew stated. “I cannot apologize enough to all involved and I will be watching alongside you all on what I know will be one of the best seasons yet,” he added.
Now we are learning more about what protocols Matthew broke. An insider close to So You Think You Can Dance alleged that Matthew was actually fired because he had “an inappropriate relationship” with a female contestant. “They didn’t have sex, but he reached out to her through flirty direct messages on social media,” the source claimed.
The contestant felt uneasy and went to producers about the messages. After the producers involved Fox, they completed their own investigation and pink-slipped Matthew. Matthew is married with kids, which makes this doubly inappropriate. The audition rounds of the show are pre-taped, so Matthew will be gracing our TV screens until the live competition begins.
Page Six reported that Matthew is speaking out about losing his job. In an Instagram video, Matthew said, “It’s really unfortunate that I have to sit here and defend myself and my family against blatantly untrue statements made anonymously, but I have nothing to hide.”
He continued, “So, in the interest of transparency, I will read to you the one message that I wrote to a dancer on the show.”
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Matthew read the supposed text but did not show any any screenshots or his actual phone to the camera. They’re called receipts, Matthew. And we really need them at this point.
“Hey! It’s Matthew. If you don’t mind, would love to get your number and talk you through some things,” Matthew stated. Matthew claimed that he and the contestant “share a mutual respect” for the same choreographer. That is still inappropriate.
Matthew continued, “I’ve known her [the choreographer] for over 20 years and was trying to help her get a job as a choreographer on the show.” The former judge added, “It’s devastating that we live in this world where gossip rules and people’s lives are being thrown around as clickbait.”
Page Six reached out to both Fox and Matthew for comment.
There is no word on who will be taking Matthew’s seat at the judges’ table when the live competition begins.
TELL US- WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MATTHEW’S SIDE OF THE STORY? DO YOU BELIEVE HIM? WAS HIS MESSAGE INAPPROPRIATE?
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I’m not really sure when it happened or why, but Shannon Beador and Kelly Dodd are friends. The two butted heads plenty during their time on Real Housewives of Orange County but it looks like those days are over. Despite Kelly constantly attacking Shannon’s current costars, Shannon seems to be quite cozy with Kelly.
But fans are not feeling it. As reported by Page Six, Shannon got read for filth after posting a picture of them together. The two celebrated Memorial Day together at a party hosted by former Bravo star Jeff Lewis. Shannon posted multiple photos of the affair for her 1.3 million Instagram followers to see. In multiple pictures, Shannon and Kelly are happily posing with their arms around one another.
Unfortunately for Shannon, her comments section lit up with criticism for hanging out with Kelly. One fan referenced Kelly’s recent comments about the Uvalde elementary school shooting. Kelly insensitively tweeted out her thoughts on the matter, comparing the mass shooting to 9/11. The user wrote, “Really Shannon you’re still friends with Kelly? After the things she said about the school shooting in Uvalde. You are the company you keep.”
Another person added, “I thought you were better than this, @shannonbeador and @heathermcdonald. Hanging with Kelly Dodd? Seriously?” They added an eye roll emoji. Yet another person chastised Shannon and said, “@shannonbeador still hanging out with Kelly Dodd not a good look. I guess you’re showing us who you really are. Guilty by association. Definitely not my favorite RHOC member anymore.”
But others were excited to see the pair together again. Said one commenter, “I’m so happy you and Kelly are still friends.” Another gushed, “Pretty girls. Kelly never looked so good and happy nice to see your friends.” They used a bunch of clapping emojis and a heart emoji for emphasis.
While I am surprised that Kelly and Shannon are friends, I’m not surprised Shannon got dragged. Kelly has really been on one lately, and it’s not a good look. Even if you agree with some of her opinions, she recently went after her stepdaughter in a public tirade. And it was bad.
After Kelly and her husband, Rick Leventhal, weren’t invited to his grown daughter Veronica Leventhal’s wedding, Kelly went off on social media. Kelly tweeted, “Who doesn’t invite their own Dad to their wedding? Everyone knows she’s a narcissistic spoiled brat ! [My daughter] Jolie [Dodd] and my friends hate her. Rick’s friends hate her as well!! Always two sides to a story !” In another tweet, Kelly called Veronica “evil” and a “spoiled brat.”
Rick later defended Kelly, saying that she wasn’t the cause of them not being invited. But the whole incident was just another low for Kelly. Just when you thought she couldn’t get any lower.
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Note to Kanye West:
You may wanna turn away right about now. You may wanna stop reading this post right here and now.
The same goes for Kris Humphries, Ray J and Nick Cannon, really.
Any man who has had the luxury of penetrating Kim Kardashian will likely be displeased by what the reality star just said.
On the latest episode of The Kardashians, Kim opened up to sister Khloe about her love life these days, never mentioning Pete Davidson by name... but making it clear she's VERY happy with where things stand between herself and the comedian.
“I am not chasing anything and that is the best feeling," she said on air, adding in a bit more detail:
"Whether it is at the beginning of your career chasing fame, chasing money, chasing a relationship or chasing happiness. Like, it is just all here.
“When I turned 40 everyone said it is the best sex of your life.”
Kardashian might as well have just come out and screamed it from the rooftops of Calabasas there, huh?
Especially afte she previously confessed to having interest in Davidson due to his BDE, which stands for "Big D-ck Energy," which has been associated with the Saturday Night Live alum because he's allegedly packing down below.
If you know what we mean.
"I was just thinking, like, I heard about this BDE and I need to get out there. I need to jumpstart," Kim said on this same episode of why she wanted to date her now-boyfriend, adding:
"I was basically just DTF."
DTF stands for "Down to F-ck."
So, yeah.
Props to Kim for not even trying to pretend at this point.
Kim and Pete started dating after working together on Saturday Night Live in October 2021.
Their burgeoning connection marked Kim’s first public relationship following her divorce from West.
Amid her break-up from the unstable rapper, Kim reflected on making an effort to put herself first again.
“For so long, I did what made other people happy. And I think in the last two years I decided, I’m going to make myself happy,” she shared with Vogue in February.
Continued the mother of four at the time:
“And that feels really good.
"And even if that created changes and caused my divorce, I think it’s important to be honest with yourself about what really makes you happy. I’ve chosen myself.
"I think it’s okay to choose you.”
On Thursday, meanwhile, Kim talked about her decision to keep her romance with Pete a bit low-key.
“Honestly, I just feel like I want to really make sure and not just be like, ‘Oh my God, I met someone’ and start talking about it on a show," she said on her family's Hulu series.
"Then if we weren’t talking months later, I would be like an idiot or a whore."
As for how she feels about Davidson? Clearly VERY strongly.
"Pete has got to be literally the best human being I have ever met. Like, the best heart.
"People will always say, 'Oh, he is so funny and it has to do with how funny he is.'
"And that is, like, fourth on my list of why I like him," the KKW Beauty founder detailed during a confessional.
"He always wants the best for people, he can handle anything and he always does it with grace.
"He is really, really thoughtful, humble and so genuine. I would say the perfect word to describe Pete is genuine."
Recently, 90 Day Fiance fans saw Molly Hopkins weigh in on the Emily Bieberly storyline in social media comments.
Molly, who is a mother herself, noted that Emily breastfeeding her son is both "natural" and "really not that serious."
But many fans are more interested in Molly's life, and where things stand so long after her last season of The Single Life filmed.
Is she still with Kelly?
Early on 90 Day: The Single Life, Molly Hopkins introduced viewers to her new boyfriend, Kelly.
After her troubled relationship and divorce from Luis Mendes, Kelly slid into Molly's DMs.
It wasn't long before Molly traveled to New York to meet him. On the show, we watched Kelly visit Molly not once, but twice, in Woodstock Georgia.
Their immediate mutual interest did not mean that everything was easy.
First and foremost, Kelly knew that he needed to do right by Molly's girls.
That meant that he needed to form a bond with her daughter, Kensley, and get the approval of her eldest, Olivia.
Then, of course, came running the gauntlet of impressing Molly's friends.
Parts of this are things that everyone in a relationship goes through in some form or another.
Others had more to do with winning over fans by very visibly convincing them that this relationship is a good thing.
On Kelly's return trip, however, he and Molly had conflict -- because her casual online snooping had led her to find his ex-girlfriend, who has a young child.
Kelly had told her that he does not have children.
He did convince her that the child was not his, but this led to an important talk about Molly's understandable trust issues.
Kelly emphasized that he is not like Molly's ex, Luis Mendez, who remarried an extremely short time after he and Molly split.
He doesn't want to pay the price for her ex-husband's behavior.
Additionally, Kelly told Molly that he wanted children -- something that the 45-year-old balked at.
The decision about whether or not to have children together can make or break many relationships.
Somehow, Kelly and Molly were able to work through their differing views.
Some fans accused them of faking this discussion for drama, but it's also possible that they just prioritized their relationship.
The Tell All special led to Molly reporting some good news about her personal growth.
“I trust Kelly. 100 percent. I do trust Kelly 100 percent. I do,” she announced.
Just after the Tell All aired, she and Kelly went Instagram official, showing that they were still together.
Of course, that was then, and we all know that sometimes couples who are broken up will make misleading posts.
They're not supposed to spoil their seasons, present or future, which often means keeping their lives under wraps for a year or more after filming.
So ... are Molly and Kelly still together?
Yes.
It is now June of 2022, and Kelly recently gushed about Molly in an interview.
Combined with zero indications of a breakup -- not even rumors -- and we're talking about a still-solid couple. You know what? Good for them.
The more we find out about the Duggars' response to Josh's arrest on child pornography charges, the more it becomes apparent that he was only able to get away with so much because of the manner in which he was enabled by those around him.
When Josh molested his sisters, his parents did everything they could to help him avoid prosecution.
And after Josh was busted for downloading child sexual abuse materials, his remained more concerned with keeping her husband happy than with protecting her kids.
Last week, Josh was sentenced to 12 and half years in prison for his crimes.
In an effort to secure him lighter sentence, several friends and family members wrote letters to the judge begging for leniency.
Irobiclaly, they may have made his situation worse by reminding the judge that Josh is surrounded by eager enablers.
One of the letters came from a man named LaCount Reber.
When Josh was released on bond following his arrest, he was not permitted to live with children, which meant that he could not move back into the home he had shared with Anna.
Instead, he lived with family friends the Rebers -- and as LaCount's letter reveals, Josh continued to spend a good deal of time with his kids.
“I am writing on behalf of Joshua Duggar, to share with you my personal observations, after he came to live with our family this past year leading up to his trial. This living arrangement allowed us to get to know him and his family," Reber wrote, according to documents obtained by Radar Online.
“Joshua displayed a great amount of patience and kindness as he interacted with his wife and children," he continued.
"During their visits I would often see him playing games, reading a book, constructing legos, playing basketball, throwing a football or taking walks with his wife and children.”
Like the others who wrote letters to the judge, Lacount made no mention of Josh's crimes.
But he did remind the judge that unless Josh is locked up until his kids are grown, he'll be spending a lot of unsupervised time with young kids.
“Joshua displayed a great deal of care and consideration as he interacted with them,” LaCount wrote.
“He would patiently instruct his children, for example when it was time to clean up toys or tidy the area by encouraging and walking through the process with them and showing by example what he wanted them to do, patiently following through until the task was completed.”
LaCount went on to note that Josh adhered to the rules of his probation, as though he deserves special credit for that.
“He was given very specific guidelines relating to times of departure and return from work," he wrote.
"He would set his alarm to make sure that he left exactly during the window that he was given. I do not recall that he ever violated any of the guidelines or rules that were set for him."
Like the other letter writers, LaCount may have done more harm than good.
So maybe we should be thanking them for making sure that that monster will be locked up for a very long time.
The Bachelorette Alum Michelle Young Explains Why She Was Photographed Without Her Engagement Ring
June 02, 2022
Is another Bachelorette engagement soon to be broken off? Well… not so fast! Over the weekend Bachelorette Michelle Young was spotted without her engagement ring, but she has been quick to clap back and defend her engagement to Nayte Olukoya.
In a series of Instagram stories posted on Monday, Michelle decided to address the rumors. She said, “There is a video circulating of me on a rooftop this weekend and I’m not wearing my engagement ring, and what I have to say is to the person who is paying close enough attention to catch that moment, you also had to be paying close enough attention to see one of my friends briefly remove my engagement ring to try it on and then place it back on my finger.”
At the beginning of the video, she talks about how rarely she responds to these types of rumors, but apparently, she has been receiving an overflow of messages from concerned fans. She continued, “Just a friendly reminder that =Nayte and I, we are human beings, not a zoo exhibit.”
She added, “Not to mention videoing someone without them knowing is creepy. It’s not cool.” Which, I have to agree with her! This person was watching her for long enough to notice that moment, film it, then post it knowing it might cause a stir. If I were Michelle, I’d be a little bit creeped out too!
Nayte took to TikTok to joke about the whole situation. In the clip, he is repeatedly asking where Michelle is and captioned it “90% of my DMs”.
Despite the rumors, the relationship has been going very well so far. The two got engaged during the finale of the most recent season of The Bachelorette, and have instantly become fan favorites. Michelle told People last December, “I fall more in love every day. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a family with a healthy marriage and I thought, I’m not going to give up until I have that. He’s my person. And I didn’t know I could love at this level.”
It seems to me like sunny skies and a happy relationship are on the horizon for Michelle and Nayte!
TELL US- HOW DO YOU THINK MICHELLE AND NAYTE HANDLED THE VIDEO? DID YOU EXPECT THIS RESPONSE FROM MICHELLE? DO YOU THINK THEY WILL GET MARRIED?
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