Photo: Tommaso Boddi/WireImage/Getty Images If you’re confused about why the actress Jameela Jamil has found herself at the center of controversy again, then you’ve come to a good place. At the beginning of this week, HBO announced Jamil would MC and host a forthcoming show called Legendary, a nine-episode unscripted ballroom-style competition series.
The decision to cast Jamil, who has no obvious connection to LGBT culture or voguing in particular, incited an instant backlash. Twelve hours after the initial announcement, the story had changed. Jamil clarified in a tweet, “Deadline says I am the MC of this show! I am not. I am just one of the judges. The brilliant Dashaun Wesley is.” But Out notes that the original press release from HBO — which Jamil linked to in her now-deleted tweet — had said simply, “commentary by Dashaun Wesley.” As of Wednesday, the HBO release still stated that Jamil would MC the show.
Jamil comes out as queer On Wednesday, Jamil further responded to the brewing controversy by revealing that she is queer. “This is why I never officially came out as queer,” she wrote, “I was scared of the pain of being accused of performative bandwagon jumping, over something that caused me a lot of confusion.
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