Did you know Fluffy was *thisclose* to emceeing the Oscars in 2019? There was an opening because Kevin Hart, who had been announced as host, had offensive tweets from a decade earlier resurface. Oscar brass asked Hart to apologize and he refused, protesting that he’d already done so ten years ago and wasn’t about to do it twice.
Does that sound like a weird line to draw in the sand? Not to Iglesias, because apologizing gives power to cancel culture! “We can’t give them more,” he says defiantly, “we gotta take it back.”
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He’s about to cancel himself (before the video finds its way to the Internet)
“There are things about me that you don’t know that you’re going to find out sooner than later,” Iglesias warns. So why not follow his lawyer’s advice and get ahead of it?
We’ll let you watch the special to hear the sordid details that Iglesias shares. It’s a story that happened a long time ago, he confides, but “based on today’s rules, that’s what’s concerning me.” Spoiler alert, here’s the scandalous ending: One time, he got drunk on stage and took off all his clothes. And he’s pretty sure there’s video out there that will find its way to the Internet one day.
That’s it.
It’s a funny story, but come on, really? When have naked pictures of celebrities ever resulted in cancellation? If anything, those blurry shots of Fluffy’s bare backside would blow up Twitter for twenty minutes until Elon Musk whispered something salacious about Amber Heard and we’d never think about them again.
Based on the 45,000 thousand screaming faithful at Dodger Stadium (Iglesias actually sold out the joint for two nights in a row), Fluffy fans are not abandoning the comic anytime soon, certainly not based on the “transgressions” that worry him so much during Stadium Fluffy. Enjoy the ride, Gabriel! “They” are not coming for you. It’s scary to imagine losing success, but it’s almost as bad to not savor it while it’s here.
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