By now, you know that Smollett has gone from victim to having been arrested and charged with filing a false report after it came out that the hate crime attack perpetrated on the Empire star was actually staged by Smollett himself.
The rationale? Smollett is not a happy camper, it seems, as it relates to his salary. Feels as though he's not making enough money off the Fox series. Word is that Smollett won't appear in any new episodes of Empire any time soon. The fact that Smollett is openly gay, and tried to pass this off as a hate crime, makes him a pariah to the LGBT community.
In sports, players renegotiate their contracts all the time, usually because if they feel they're the best at their position, and someone else is making more money playing the same role on another team, well....! Smollett's not even the main star of Empire (that would be Terence Howard and Taraj P. Henson), and so he perpetrates this scam to further his career, in the faint hope he can make more money with a raise? I'm sorry, but this dude flushed his career straight down the toilet. He had to know this would blow up as quickly as it did, due to the public obsession with anything involving celebrities, for good or bad.
For this week's Dunce Cap winner, there is dumb, and there he is.
There must be something in the water in Chicago, considering that less than 48 hours after Smollett's scam was busted wide open, singer R(obert). Kelly turned himself in to Chi-town police after years of denying he'd slept with underage girls. Seems there are videos. His career is over. Then again, it should've been over a long time ago once word first got out that he allegedly had been with a 14 year old.
Why deny it, dude? Reality and karma will catch up anyway. Oh, yeah, we're giving Kelly a Dunce Cap, too, for spending so much time in denial.
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