{"id":3659,"date":"2018-03-05T01:26:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T09:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2018-03-05T01:26:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T09:26:25","slug":"seacrest-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/03\/05\/seacrest-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Seacrest…Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Universe has a way of taking care of the good people, you know what I mean?<\/em>“<\/em><\/span>  
\n<\/em>\u2013 Taraji P. Henson <\/strong>to Ryan Seacrest <\/strong>on the Oscars <\/em>red carpet.  Was it a slam to Seacrest or a message of support? 
\nI thought she was being sweet, but people online think otherwise.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In general, I believe people are innocent until proven guilty.  Conversely, there are certain things I believe for no particular reason, and you wouldn\u2019t be able to convince me otherwise even with incontrovertible facts.  That\u2019s my long way of saying with a fair amount of certainty that there is no truth to these allegations against Ryan Seacrest<\/strong>.  For those of you who don\u2019t know, Suzie Hardy <\/strong>was Seacrest\u2019s personal stylist at E! <\/em>from 2007 to 2013.  She says during those years, she endured numerous incidents of sexual harassment \u2013 and, according to her statement, when human resources at E! <\/em>questioned her (they came to her \u2013 she did not go to them), she was promptly fired.  Once, when she was on the ground tying Ryan\u2019s shoes \u2013 and let the absurdity of that statement sink in \u2013 Ryan allegedly pushed Suzie\u2019s face into his crotch.  In an even more lurid encounter, Suzie claims that when Ryan was clad in only underwear, he got so aroused looking at her, he had a visible erection.  I\u2019m not sure which is more absurd \u2013 that Ryan\u2019s erection is EVER visible, or that it could be caused by a woman!<\/p>\n

How this story affected the Oscars <\/em>is quite interesting.  For the first time ever, the bulk of E!<\/em>\u2019s red carpet interviews were pre-taped.  Why?  To avoid any embarrassing comments going out on live TV.  So what basically happened is the wranglers would grab a star to talk to Ryan.  Before they came over, he\u2019d throw it over to Giuliana Rancic<\/strong>, who was on the roof across the street.  Ryan would do the interview.  If it went well, Giuliana would say, \u201cLet\u2019s go back to Ryan, who is talking to Christopher Plummer<\/strong>\u201d \u2013 perhaps a bad example, because I\u2019m not sure Chris knew who Ryan was.  Then E! <\/em>would roll in the Plummer interview as if it were live.  Given the circumstances, we\u2019re pleased to hear that Giuliana voiced her objection over saying things like, \u201cUnexpected moments happen on the red carpet, and you will see them live only on E!<\/em>\u201d.  But, say it she did.  The bottom line is that E!<\/em>\u2019s pre-show featured very few major stars talking to Ryan \u2013 in fact, all five Best Actress <\/em>nominees simply demurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Universe has a way of taking care of the good people, you know what I mean?“   \u2013 Taraji P. Henson to Ryan Seacrest on the Oscars red carpet.  Was it a slam to Seacrest or a message of support?  I thought she was being sweet, but people online think otherwise. In general, I believe people are innocent until proven guilty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3667,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions\/3667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}