Jesse Smollet keeps DIGGING his GRAVE

sorry, it's JUSSIE

Close enough, R1

He is mentally ill. Lost cause.

“ I fought the fuck BACK!”

What a complete lying asshole.

Waste of space. Doesn't deserve a platform. Begone.

Fuck Netflix.

He is astoundingly guilty. This maaaaybe there were white men there? Is below bottom feeding tv. Pure shit. Cancel Netflix.

The Prince did not kill his sister Netflix.

Trump should have Pam Bondi roast him for trying to ignite a race war. That would play perfectly with his base—and serve as yet another Epstein distraction.

[quote]sorry, it's JUSSIE

It's also SMOLLETT.

Two words, and you managed to get them both wrong. Brava, OP!

Actor Jussie Smollett is making a return to television this fall, six years after an alleged 2019 hate crime scandal.

The 42-year-old actor will be joining the fourth season of the reality competition program "Special Forces: World's Toughest Test" alongside 17 other celebrities. The show puts the contestants through military-style special forces training, and the upcoming season will be set in Morocco, according to a press release from Fox.

Smollett will appear alongside other notable athletes, artists, and personalities, including married couples Eric Decker and Jessie James Decker -- a former NFL player and country music singer, respectively -- and former NFL player Andrew East and retired Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson East.

Pam, you dumb sycophant cunt, do your job!

How long before he drops the race bit and calls it an antisemitic hate crime?

Encore cette salope?

[quote]The 42-year-old actor will be joining the fourth season of the reality competition program "Special Forces: World's Toughest Test" alongside 17 other celebrities.

The bar on "celebrity" just keeps getting lower.

He looks good at least. Better than before, imo.

His sister is in that show Smoke on Apple+ I'm assuming she's a big ol lez? She sure comes across as one.

He should become the spokesperson for Celebrity Cruise line!!!

Jesse is being protected by Tyler Perry.

Netflix giving him a platform is yet another reason I'm glad I cancelled my subscription. Race baiting cunt.

This is right up there with the Shari Papini documentary in terms of believability.

As soon as his Netflix special clears his name, Jussie will announce his engagement to Stephen Glass. A June wedding shall be planned. Madea will officiate.

[quote]sorry, it's JUSSIE

Rhymes with Mussie.

Didn't his hot black friends admit to being in on it?

I thought he was convicted for making this up.

He did, but he got his record cleared. And yes, the two brothers admitted to helping him stage the attack.

I don’t understand the purpose of this. We all know he’s lying and he knows he’s lying.

Who ok’d the “documentary”

If you watch the trailer it is a "two-sides" documentary. Lots of experts and testimony about the faked attack, and they a few wacky "it could be true" contrarians. This kind of media is COMPLETE SHIT and Netflix should be ashamed for producing it or buying it.

Juicy Smoo-Yay

Whoever believed his story to begin with? On a historically cold night in Chicago when there was a polar vortex he goes out at two in the morning to get a sandwich and the only other people on the street are 2 guys wearing MAGAs hat who just happened to have a rope and some caustic liquid.

Complete POS. Glad I don’t have Netflix. Not that I’d watch but I’m glad I don’t give them my money.

When I saw Netflix made this, I assumed Jussie must be ready to admit the truth. I figured this would be a public confession, expression of regret and mea culpa to revive his dead career. That’s the only way it made sense. Instead this asshole will sit up there telling that same boneheaded story? 🤦‍♂️ Your Netflix subscription money hard at work.

R22 I'm pretty sure that his fiancé is named George, George Glass.

Hollywood Reporter:

The thing I appreciate most about Netflix's The Truth About Jussie Smollett? is that darned question mark. Gagan Rehill's 86-minute documentary seems to actually be aware of its biggest problem, which is that it doesn't come CLOSE to offering viewers anything resembling the "truth" of the 2019 assault or lie involving the Empire star

I've never seen a documentary in which every participant came across as so collectively unconvincing. I didn't learn anything from The Truth About Jussie Smollett? nor was my perspective materially changed, but confirmation bias is so baked into this story that it might as well be a secondary character.

I was shocked as hell anyone believed it in the first place. 15 years I've lived in Chicago and I've never so much as heard of anyone here daring to express public support for Trump in hushed tones in the middle of a rowdy douche bar, let alone wear a MAGA hat right out in the open.

Obviously there are people who very quietly vote for Trump in Chicago, but MAGA as a culture is just not done here.

The "celebrity" bar on Season 4 is so low it's a tripping hazard.

I don’t care what the guy did to deserve so much scorn, I really want him in me, deeply

Yes, R37. He has no conscience, but his cock and ass are pretty compelling.

Will he be showing his dick?

R37 have some self respect. Smollett is mentally ill and morally bankrupt. Hot dick is a dime a dozen if you aren't a decrepit old man. Are you?

Mentally ill? Morally bankrupt, I can see.

He's a malignant narcissist.

He is trying to pull off an Al Sharpton by tying himself to a larger agenda so people forgive and forget what a grifter he is.

He was hot in 2015, but now, not so much.

It always sticks in my craw Rachel Maddow treating Rev Dr Al Sharpton as a serious person.

[quote]Whoever believed his story to begin with?

Well…

He hasn't bounced back career-wise in any substantive way. I'm not sure there's much more to dig.

[quote]Jesse Smollet keeps DIGGING his GRAVE

Well, I'm certainly not gonna.

I hate-watched this trash yesterday. I still don’t know why Netflix would produce it except as a part of its “Trainwreck” series. The only thing I took from it is that Jussie would be perhaps the most eminently fuckable gay celeb if he wasn’t a batshit crazy narcissist. He destroyed a very promising career.

Yes the fact that he is very cute makes it all the more deplorable.

Why didn’t Sarah Jessica just go for the whole woke enchilada and make Jussie Smollett Anthony’s love interest instead of the generic young, hung Italian? They could’ve tossed Patti LuPone in as EPCOT’s mother and finally given her something bigger to do besides lurking in the background and fighting with Anthony. A good tongue lashing by Patti to EPCOT would have been epic.

We've already had the definitive take on this nonsense.

With his dick?

God! Her, again!

Meanwhile, his "Empire" costar ended up doing porn.

Which one, R55?

I knew the story Jussie made up was bullshit from the start. It made absolutely no sense. I was surprised in how it turned out, though. I figured he was on Grindr hook-up gone bad/got catfished and didn't want to admit it. I had no idea he had set up the whole thing. How unbelievably stupid.

r56 Bryshere Gray

Jussie on Bryshere Gray

Oh my, R58

The f who is Netflix handing our money? Apalling.

Why is Jussie still talked about? Lowlife piece of you know what.

I agree they make some of the worst decisions when it comes to who they develop projects with.

I guess enough time has gone by that Jussie thinks he can change the narrative, but I’d be surprised if he did that in a meaningful way. This new evidence is quite flimsy.

The brothers who confessed to helping him don’t want to be a part of this narrative anymore and Jussie has taken advantage of that.

Its absolutely cringing at this stage. I feel such second hand embarrassment for him. How did he get off Scott free And Netflix have made a huge error giving him this platform. To think what he couldve done to cause race wars. Stupid dickhead...even keeping the noose around his neck till the cops arrived. Sick and twisted narcissist. How has no one talked him into shutting up; or owning up? The public can be quick to forgive someone who plays the mental health card. . And says Sorry. But that ship has long sailed.

I've never seen Empire, but was Jussie rich? He has a lot of staff. According to the documentary, he has a creative director, a manager, an assistant, and an agent.

I still don’t understand how he was convicted and then suddenly everything was dropped.

I believe it was alleged that Michelle Obama interfered somehow on his behalf. That prosecutor Kim Foxx seems beyond corrupt.

It's similar to why Cosby got off. There was a signed agreement with the State's Attorney, Kim Fox, to drop the charges in exchange for community service and forfeiture of his bond money, which I assume was somewhat substantial.

Then the special prosecutor came in and brought new charges. But being charged after the agreement was a violation of due process - which it technically is. So, it's a procedural, technical reason he got off. It wasn't because of lack of proof or that anyone thinking he's not guilty.

Of course it's lame that Kim Fox made the deal in the first place, but she did - and it's the legally correct outcome, if is jackass Jussie gets off easily. The same scenario has happened before in many jurisdictions. Fox should be made to answer, but she was the State's Attorney and it was in her power to drop charges. So, other than criticism - which she received plenty of - there's really not much anyone can do. She didn't run for reelection

While Smollett is a disgusting bitch, the bigger story here is Bryshere Gray and Diddy at R59 ! WTF.

The term [Bold]malignant narcissist[/Bold] gets thrown around haphazardly these days but in his case, he's peak that.

His family members are all deranged as well. The enabling of a malignant narcissist is unreal. I’m surprised someone like him still has relationships with family members.

What the hell is the general consensus among the DL sleuths about what he was actually up to that fateful night in Chicago?

R71 I was at work (night) when I first heard his story that included 2 white men saying, "Aren't you that ni**er-fa**ot from Empire. I immediately called called that story as total bullshit. I didn't predict what actually happened. I was all but certain he had been catfished on a hook-up app and was too embarrassed to admit it. I was surprised when it became evident that he'd set up the whole thing with the Nigerian brothers. It's unbelievable how many people (mostly whites) that bought into his totally ridiculous fabrication. Sub-zero in Chicago and walking from Subway and encountering 2 white men that recognized him as a Gay Black man from Empire (while he's bundled up for below zero weather) and saying, "This is MAGA country". Then, of course, the handy noose they had with them. Really?

Yes, REALLY, R72!!

I fought the fuck back!!

Amateur.

How did anyone say the guy walking in the enhanced footage (with the orange taxi) was white? But then the security guard said he was black. 😂

Also it was polar vortex and Jussie didn't have on a jacket, only a sweater.

The ONLY reason ANYONE would be out at 2am in the middle of a Chicago winter would be if trolling for dick. Nothing else would be worth it.

I think some people believed his story at first because it seemed like a preposterous story to make up, especially by someone in the public eye who seemed like he had a lot going for him at the time. It just didn't make any sense for him to lie about something like that.

Jussie is a prime example of how dumb criminals can be.

He really fucked up his life. And for what?

The documentarian’s big pitch? Every sin ever committed by the Chicago police magically proves they must have conspired against poor, innocent Jussie. In this fantasy, the cops forged everything—the Osundairo brothers’ confession, the personal check Jussie cut them, the video of the brothers buying rope and ski masks, even Jussie’s Oscar-worthy choice to welcome officers with a noose still hanging around his neck. And naturally, the brothers hopping a flight to Africa the very next day? Yep, the police told them to do that too.

We’re also supposed to believe the police somehow staged Jussie’s bizarre behavior, like proudly holding onto that pristine Subway sandwich as if it were a symbol of resilience instead of a prop in a bad improv skit. Yes, Chicago cops have a rotten history, no argument there. But this wasn’t some beat cop roughing up a kid on the South Side—this was a top-tier investigation with the brass reporting directly to the mayor. The idea they could pull off a giant prank, fabricate evidence, and keep the entire Chicago press corps from sniffing it out? Please.

When leaks finally started dripping out, Jussie was suddenly told to shut up and avoid interviews. But funny enough, he had no problem performing in L.A. a few days after his “trauma.” And sure, maybe a random white guy was walking around that night—it’s Chicago, and the neighborhood is full of upscale white folks. But clinging to that as proof of innocence? That’s the kind of mental gymnastics reserved for people who’ve lost touch with reality in more ways than one.

Let’s call this documentary what it is: image rehab for Jussie. Follow the money—was Lee Daniels or Tyler Perry cutting the checks? Oh, what a coincidence, Jussie has a new reality show coming soon. He thinks this puff piece is his comeback ticket. Hard pass. And if this dreck ends up with an Emmy nomination? That’ll be the biggest joke of all.

His interview with Robin Roberts is cringeworthy. He’s such a phony and so dumb.

No longer young, demonstrably dumb, deliciously hung, and potentially full of cum.

Even if this incident didn’t technically happen, the important thing is that this is the kind of violence queer people must deal with every day when grabbing a footlong meatball sub at 2 AM on a weeknight in January in Chicago!

Robin Roberts’s demeanor and interview skills with Jussie were very impressive. I was surprised by how tough she was with him.

Police=bad, especially white police. Jussie=virtuous, especially when it comes to being beat up and hung by two white men in MAGA hats

Will Jussie be on GMA with Robin promoting this documentary?

If he wants to hold on to his few remaining scraps of dignity he shouldn’t, R85

Probably will, though. Narcs are like that.

The Grio has a piece underscoring all the wrongs of Chicago PD and how this makes Jussie innocent. So sad. Fools are fools who think this clown is a victim.

Is Lee Daniels still cutting check to Jussie?

I'm a liberal Trump hater. But I hate this piece of shit too.

I remember as soon as I hear details I thought "made up." For some reason, a hallmark of these fake attacks always seems to involve bleach.

I hate that he was able to whine his way out of prison. And I hate that Netflix is engaging in ANY image rehabilitation for him, because he 100% staged this event, and for self serving reasons

[quote]Whoever believed his story to begin with?

Me.

Not sure if this has been mentioned upthread but

[Quote] I'm the gay Tupac

It's what he said after being "attacked". Enough said.

MESS

That he opted to call himself Jussie instead of his legal name Justin indicates a cretinous desire for attention.

Oh Jussie . You’re a MESS!

Oh Jussie Smollet, we hate you, don't get up.