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Ellen DeGeneres sued for mocking woman’s name
comedian’s talk show sued for defamation
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Ellen DeGeneres is being sued for poking fun at a real estate agent’s name during a segment of “What’s Wrong With These Ads… And These Signs?” on her talk show.
Daily Mail reports DeGeneres mocked Titi Pierce’s name by calling her “Titty Pierce” when reading from an advertisement for Coldwell Banker, where Pierce works in Georgia, on a February episode.
The real estate agent says her name is pronounced “Tee Tee” and she has never been called “Titty” in her life. Pierce has filed a defamation lawsuit against Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., who own “The Ellen Show,” for “false light invasion of privacy, misappropriation of likeness, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
The lawsuit also states that show producers didn’t blur Pierce’s cell phone number when the show aired leading to “hundreds” of phone calls “during the funeral of a family member.”
According to Daily Mail, Pierce says she contacted producers about the mispronunciation of her name and censoring her phone number, but was not edited out when the episode re-aired on April 15.
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
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