Tag: MTV
MTV star ‘felt pressured to have sex on screen’ – BBC News
(Via BBC): Stars of an MTV reality show felt under pressure from producers to have “lots” of sex on screen, Victoria Derbyshire programme has been told.
Ex On The Beach’s Jess Impiazzi said it had felt like being “in a brothel”. Meanwhile, Carley Belomonte, who stars The Valleys, also on MTV, said she felt the production team should have made her undergo counselling after her mother had died.
Both production companies said they took duty of care seriously. The women admitted the series had made them celebrities and led to many job opportunities.
‘Made in Staten Island,’ an MTV Reality Show, Makes the Borough Look Bad, Critics Say
First there was “Jersey Shore” on MTV and then “Mob Wives” on VH1.
Now another reality television series, set to debut on Monday, features a blend of both — and like its predecessors, it is drawing criticism that it stereotypes Italian-Americans.
“Bosses aren’t born, they’re ‘Made in Staten Island,’” MTV said in promotional materials for the show, “Made in Staten Island,” which the network described as “grittier and edgier” than its other reality shows.
“Made in Staten Island,” which tracks young adults trying to avoid mob lifestyles, has drawn the ire of city officials and thousands of people who signed an online petition calling for it to be canceled. The show perpetuates the notion that Staten Island is “a cesspool of gangsters, meatheads and low lives” and is premised on the idea that “kids from Staten Island all grow up surrounded by the mafia,” the petition said.
One of the show’s executive producers is Karen Gravano, a star of “Mob Wives” and the daughter of Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, who was a hit man for John Gotti, the Gambino crime family boss, and later became a government informant. Ms. Gravano’s daughter Karina Seabrook, 19, is one of the stars of the show.
“A lot of us are faced with two options: the street life or the straight life,” says one of the show’s other stars, Christian Patterson, 20, in a preview. “Our crew was born in the streets, and now they’re looking for a way out.”
Article via TheNYTimes
Chadwick Boseman Gives His MTV Movie ‘Best Hero’ Award To Waffle House Shooting Hero James Shaw Jr.
Yes, this is my King 😉
Our favorite superhero Chadwick Boseman gave his MTV Movie and TV Award to a real-life hero.
During his acceptance speech, Boseman thanked his fans for the honor but decided the popcorn statue should have another home.
“Receiving an award for playing a superhero is amazing, but it’s even greater to acknowledge the heroes that we have in real life,” Boseman said. “So I just want to acknowledge somebody that’s here today. James Shaw Jr. Where are you? Stand. If you don’t know James Shaw Jr., he fought off a gunman in Antioch, Tennessee at a Waffle House. He saved lives. Come on up here.”
The surprised Shaw took the stage, and Boseman handed him the award.
“This is gonna live at your house,” he said as the crowd cheered.
Shaw is widely considered a hero for fighting the gunman who shot up a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee, in April. After news of his actions broke, Shaw admitted to having conflicting feelings about being called a hero. He later raised $90,000 for the shooting victims’ families.
“I’m not a hero,” Shaw said days after the shooting. “I’m just a regular person. I think anybody could have did what I did if they’re pushed. You have to either react or fall. I chose to react because I didn’t see any other way to live.”
Check out the exchange below:
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MTV Forces White People to Face Their Whiteness in New Documentary ‘White People’
source: http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/07/white-people-mtv-documentary-trailer
Well folks it looks like MTV is getting ready to get a bunch of boxes of Kleenex for some good old white folks tears with a new Reality Documentary called White People. While I was watching with Kermit and MJ popcorn in one hand and ice tea in the other as I watch the preview most seem nervous and uncomfortable to talk about race and their white privilege and what it means to have it; I’m hoping they learn HOW they can help heal the wounds that has been inflicted upon people of color. So my white folks breakout the tissues and blow your nose and start cryin’. Maybe Common ( I mean this sarcastically) can cry with you while comforting you with love? Will you be watching my black and white people? I know I am!
If you’re white and have ever felt uncomfortable or offended whenever I have called out the American entertainment industry’s long history of racism, then 1) wow I feel very sorry for you and 2) get ready to squirm in your seats. On July 22, MTV is premiering a documentary called White People (lol I know) in which white people are forced to think about how white they are. Check out the trailer below (warning: lots of white people tears lie ahead).
By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim