Dang! Things Don't Seem To Be Going Too Well For Aunt Becky And Her Family Of Grifters

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Dang! Things Don't Seem To Be Going Too Well For Aunt Becky And Her Family Of Grifters

It's been a hell of a week, so let's take a break from all the sheer horror for a minute of SHOOT IT DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS schadenfreude coming from the fallout of the college cheating scandal, shall we?

Since the fallout from Operation VARSITY BLUES, it seems like just about everything has been falling apart for everyone involved, and not just because they might all go to jail. Target is all "Uh, we stopped carrying his shit a year ago, and stopped having a working relationship with him over a decade ago, don't look at us!" about Mossimo Giannulli. Additionally, it turns out that Giannulli is a vocal Trump supporter who is known to complain about poor people not "carrying their own weight.

Lori Loughlin herself has gotten the boot from both Hallmark and Fuller House. Loughlin was apparently a regular on some Hallmark show I've never heard of and also starred in a series of Hallmark movies called "Garage Sale Mysteries." Netflix told The Hollywood Reporter on Friday that it had "no plans" to keep Aunt Becky around either. However will San Francisco wake up?


In case you were starting to feel some pity for her, the courtroom sketch artist from her court appearance said that Loughlin, in contrast to Felicity Huffman who looked appropriately ashamed, was pointedly arrogant in her demeanor.

The Fuller House actress (also commonly referred to as her character's name Aunt Becky) had her arms crossed — and they stayed that way the whole time she was in court. "Kind of a defensive deflection like: Don't touch me. What am I doing here? Where are my people? When am I getting out? It was so defiant," says the freelance artist, who regularly covers court cases, often for ABC News. "Loughlin came off, and I think it showed in my drawings, a little arrogant. An illustrator can bring that out maybe more than a camera. However, I wasn't being subjective. I was just drawing what I saw." She adds: "The way people stand, their body language, their attitude — it all plays a part in an illustration."

Things are not going very well for Olivia Jade Giannulli, Loughlin and Giannulli's "influencer" daughter. Just a few weeks ago, Olivia Jade was on top of the world, sort of. She was a rich kid getting even more rich by being "Instagram famous," reeling in sponsorships from Amazon, Sephora, Smashbox, Too Faced Cosmetics, TRESemmé, Dolce and Gabbana, Marc Jacobs, etc. etc. She regularly posted "spon-con" from her dorm room, but also talked a whole bunch about how she didn't even want to go to school and just wanted to party. And make videos.

Here is one such video she made about all the luxury items her parents bought her for Christmas.

(LUXURY) WHAT I GOT FOR CHRISTMAS 2018 l Olivia Jadewww.youtube.com

I might have felt badly about picking on a young woman for something her parents did... but are you kidding me with this shit? I cannot believe this is a thing. It's pure sociopathy. "Hey, look at me, poor people! I have rich parents who buy me luxury items for Christmas!" I am a full on adult and if I did something like this, my parents to this day would kill me and then take all said Christmas presents in order to donate them to someone less terrible.

So far, she's been dropped by Sephora, Estée Lauder (which owns Smashbox and Too Faced) and TRESemmé. According to a report from The Cut, "Amazon, Dolce & Gabbana, Lulus, Marc Jacobs Beauty, Smile Direct Club, and Boohoo" have not yet decided whether or not they'll be sticking with

(If Smashbox needs a replacement, may I just note that like five people so far have bought their Made It matte lipstick because of me and how awesome I am? Also because it's a really good true red for people with olive skin. I don't have an Instagram, but I do go out regularly! Give me money!)

Olivia Jade, who was on a yacht owned by a USC official when the news came out about the scam, will reportedly not be returning to school after spring break.

As for Felicity Huffman, she hasn't really been doing much lately, so she hasn't lost anything other than her dignity and the likelihood that I will ever get around to actually watching "Desperate Housewives." The producers of "Shameless" have yet to say anything about William H. Macy (who was not charged with anything, despite having clearly been in on it), though the title of the show does seem more appropriate than ever.

ANYWAY, this is now your open thread. Have a schadenfreudey day!

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Robyn Pennacchia

Robyn Pennacchia is a brilliant, fabulously talented and visually stunning angel of a human being, who shrugged off what she is pretty sure would have been a Tony Award-winning career in musical theater in order to write about stuff on the internet. Follow her on Twitter at @RobynElyse

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