news • May 17 2018

MTV stops production on ‘Catfish’ amid sexual misconduct allegations against Nev Schulman

‘We take these allegations very seriously’

Production on the hit MTV show Catfish is temporarily halted while the network investigates sexual harassment and misconduct allegations against host/producer Nev Schulman.

The Daily Beast first reported the allegations and subsequent show suspension. While no details about the accusations have emerged yet, both MTV and Schulman issued statements.

“We take these allegations very seriously,” an MTV spokesperson said in a statement. “We’re working with Critical Content, our third party production company, to conduct a thorough investigation.”

“I have always been transparent about my life and would always take responsibility for my actions—but these claims are false,” Schulman, 33, told The Daily Beast in a statement.

Catfish, first aired in 2012, is a hot mess/cultural phenomenon dedicated to exposing online scammers and their myriad lies.

In 2014, Nev revealed he was kicked out of Sarah Lawrence College for punching a girl in the face. Nev's defense? He didn't know the person he punched was a girl because of her crew cut and stocky build.

Then, he tweeted this:

We'll update this story as more information becomes available.

Yes, Nicki Minaj is now dating a registered sex offender and convicted killer

Here’s the full court record

by Nian Hu

Nicki Minaj is Instagram official with a 40-year-old man named Kenneth Petty, a level 2 registered sex offender in New York who has been convicted of attempted rape as well as manslaughter. According to the New York Sex Offenders database, Petty was convicted of attempted rape on April 5, 1995. Court records obtained by TMZ…

An Asian guy took an ancestry DNA test only to be told that he’s ‘100% Asian’

Surprise! You’re Asian!

by Nian Hu

Pretty much everyone I know has taken one of those ancestry DNA tests. And yeah, they're expensive but I can definitely see the appeal. The level of detail in the breakdowns — 56 percent Irish, 20 percent Balkan, 12 percent Iberian — isn't something you could get from a conversation with your grandma. And it's…

The guy behind the sexist Ocasio-Cortez tweet also tweeted about making ‘hot’ children masturbate

And then tried to defend it

by Nian Hu

Eddie Scarry, a reporter at the Washington Examiner, recently came under fire for a tweet where he posted a photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's backside as she was walking, and wrote: "Hill staffer sent me this pic of Ocasio-Cortez they took just now. I'll tell you something: that jacket and coat don't look like a girl…