Lori Loughlin’s daughter jumps back on YouTube
Will someone please give Olivia Jade Giannulli some good advice?
I’ll start. Scrap the YouTube career.
The 20-year-old ex-social media maven is, amazingly, back starring in her own YouTube channel nine months after becoming a household name following the arrests of her parents — former “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin and fashion mogul Mossimo Giannulli — for their alleged role in the biggest college admission scandal of our time.
Olivia had fetched nearly two million YouTube followers before her famous parents were accused of shelling out $500,000 in bribes to get Olivia and her sister into the University of Southern California as fake crew recruits.
Before the scandal, the popular social media influencer posted videos of herself applying her “everyday makeup,” getting ready for college parties, getting glammed up for her 19th birthday party and showing off her annual “What I got for Christmas” luxury hauls.
She got so popular, she landed sponsorship deals, including one with Sephora. She gave YouTube followers a tour of her dorm room and boasted about how Amazon “hooked” her up. Last Christmas, in a cringe-worthy video posted just months before the scandal broke, Olivia revealed her latest gifts from her wealthy parents: a haul that included a $5,000 Chanel bag.
And then there was a nauseating video of Olivia confessing that she didn’t care about school but wanted the experience of partying at college. You get the picture.
So now, she’s back, posting a video Sunday where she says she can’t talk about the college scandal and wants to move on. She reportedly got the OK for her social media comeback from her parents and their attorneys, despite the pending case.
Olivia! The last people you should be taking advice from these days are your mom and dad.
As other parents charged in the scandal are owning up to their crimes, being sentenced and apologizing, Loughlin and Giannulli are maintaining their innocence, reportedly rebuffing a plea deal of two years behind bars. If convicted, the couple face decades in prison.
Sure, Olivia’s videos were somewhat entertaining — and obviously profitable. Who doesn’t like a good makeup tutorial or a peek into the lives of the rich and famous?
But those showy videos now come across as tone deaf in the wake of the scandal. Her parents, and the others, have become a symbol of wealth and entitlement run amok, as they face accusations they paid big bucks to get their undeserving kids into some of the country’s best colleges.
Apparently, Olivia is still clueless. Many comments on her new YouTube comeback video are not kind. “I’ve put everything I am into getting into college,” read one. “It still breaks my heart that people can pay to get what other people work their whole lives towards.”
Olivia is part of a generation raised on instant gratification and accidental stardom. But the social media ride is over for this girl. A career out of the spotlight may be her best bet.
from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/2Re58Ti
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