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CeeLo Green’s TBS Reality Show Canceled Prior to Backlash Over Twitter Rape Comments
Rachael Ray, right, greets CeeLo Green onstage at her Feedback Party during the SXSW Music Festival, Saturday, March 15, 2014, in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)
(Boston Herald) – Public criticism is mounting against rapper-actor CeeLo Green, a former judge on NBC’s “The Voice” who was the center of a recent TBS reality series, after controversial statements he made via Twitter during the weekend regarding the nature of rape.
The tweets, now deleted from the account, asserted that women can only be raped if they are conscious, and compared rape to a home invasion. Green faced allegations of sexual assault in 2012, and on Aug. 29 pleaded no contest in Los Angeles to a drug charge.
The outrage stirred by the comments sparked calls for TBS to cancel the reality show “CeeLo Green’s The Good Life.” However, a source said the show was already axed after it completed its first season run earlier this year.
