Jussie Smollett: Where does the 'Empire' actor's career go from here?

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Where does Jussie Smollett's career go from here?

on himself in January, attention could soon shift to his future in Hollywood. Smollett, 36, has denied any wrongdoing.

David E. Johnson, the CEO of the Atlanta-based Strategic Vision PR Group, said that Fox network executives and advertisers will likely pay close attention to shifting public attitudes about Smollett. If the outrage simmers, Johnson said, he could foresee a"pathway" to career rehabilitation. The communications experts who spoke to NBC News pointed to the examples of other celebrities who successfully weathered legal problems, such as Martha Stewart, or overcame personal struggles that had threatened to overshadow their on-screen work, such as Robert Downey Jr.

Ryan McCormick, co-founder of New York-based Goldman McCormick PR, agreed that"a lot of studios are not going to take a chance" on Smollett since his clouded reputation could jeopardize a primetime franchise.

 

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Down he proved his word don't mean nothing! Can't be trusted.

How about prison?

He needs to be a trash collector now. I mean if he wants to work.

Who cares.

The unemployment line! BoycottEmpire

It goes where the flushes go

I hope he gets in a bad car accident.

Hopefully to hell

I for one will not be watching anything he is a part of!

Reality Show... Next Call ;)

The same place the Empire show is going Down The Toilet

Nowhere!

Don't care. Did you hear that Trump is going to take health insurance away from millions of Americans?

Go directly to hell; do NOT pass GO, do NOT collect your $10,000 blood money. Youre a scroundrel & a shame to your mom.

“Around the bowl and down the hole, Go Jussie, Go!” Sploosh

should be in

In the gutter where he belongs!

Hell is a good place to start

He needs to start his own reality show!

In the shitter

Smollett will end up on Reality TV. It doesn’t take an expert to figure that out.

Gay porn.

Guest staring on Chicago PD?

I don't care

NBC news contributor or reporter, he would fit right in 😁

Liberal Hollywood will make him a super star.

It's hard because his acting turned out to be just not that convincing.

In the garbage where it belongs

Omg who cares

Hopefully into the sewer where he belongs.

Right in the toilet, where it belongs. You don't get to get away with perpetrating a disgusting, racist hoax, and then show zero contrition, and still think you have a career. Smollett is a disgrace and a piece of human trash. No decency whatsoever.

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JAIL I HOPE!

In the dumpster. He tried to start a race/MAGA war. Divisive & disgusting with no apology

All advertisers will be forced to boycott any show that has anything to do with this lying moron. He is an absolute disgrace in every regard.

The law does not apply to the anti Semitic anti American racist socialist democrat party members. The Obama’s got him off.

Senate?

It's just goes to show how judges can be easily influenced. for what ever reason smollett got off its obvious that judge made a stupid wrong decision.

He goes to work for Trump?

In the toilet where he placed his own race with his very poor decision.

Never heard of him before and don’t care to hear about him now 🤷🏻‍♀️

To HELL

Off the tube...and down the tube

Duh! Nowhere ever, period.

I hope his story is not lie.

It doesn’t.

Lol

Hopefully to another country

He beat the charges. He made a fool out of the justice system.

No one cares

Hopefully to some quiet corner of the world where frauds, Liars and the corrupt go when no one else can stand their face anymore.

Right into the toilet.

Hopefully he is burning hamburgers on the navy peir for minimum wage

Shouldn’t have one. Needs to become a better person and not a privileged fool promoting hate!

I am an American and I never even heard of this guy!

Nowhere

To the trash basket I hope !

he should be in jail, the lying scum , he was not that great an actor no one knew who he was till he pulled that stunt , admitted to doing it cause he did not like the pay they were giving him , now the lies are flying

..hate crimes need to be addressed even when you are a member of the CelebrityCesspool If innocent courts would have deemed innocence! Prosecutor took help from Obama connection - typical DNC preferences for chosen few!

Hardy’s

Will there be another mishap after all the attention die down?

To a reality show called Hoaxed.

Dumpster 🔥

Federal prison!!!

I hear McDonald's is hiring....

The toilet

Sounds like it might go to Federal prison

I vote to not support any organization or show that supports Jussie Smollett. Retweet if you agree.

Hopefully in the toilet as he is 100% guilty and a racist. So sad he tried to further divide people of color.

this was all a ploy to give his publicity he should be friends with cardib.. birds of a feather

What he did was shameful!

Bye 👋🏽

He won’t be able to walk in public, if someone is dumb enough and callous enough to give him a job - Hollywood is- lest you forget Weinstein and Woody Allen- his projects will be boycotted immediately.

The toilet

No where if the new non obama FBI gets hold if it.

without an apology and admitting his lie, I do not think he can recover

The toilet?

Something tells me that Jussie will be standing in Federal Court in the near future. Smollett made a dumpster fire out of his career.

I hope no where .i would never watch anything this a hole is in never .Justice was not served such a fake

It doesn’t

Nowhere I hope

Hopefully no where why do we keep rewarding bad behavior?

Hopefully no where he should be punished for what he did we all know he’s guilty

Wow, there are a lot of toilet memes!

Hopefully in the toilet

YOU'D THINK HE'D BURNED THAT SHIT DOWN!!! THEN AGAIN HYPOCRISY IS ALIVE AND KICKING BY LIBERALS

Car wash attendant

Anyone black or white will boycott anything he is acting on.

Federal

The Democrats are looking for a new front man.

Nowhere. We aren't supporting a smug liar and hoaxer. He's done.

You KNOW where it should go? Hmmm... 🤔💭. “I” got it! Let’s ask lying 🤥 Ryan Lochte where HIS career went. Jusse’s should suffer the SAME fate. Yeah. Strap THAT on.

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Hopefully in the toilet

Nowhere?

Wish him the best. I hope they keep him on for next season.

MSNBC anchor.

What career?

In the toilet

Toilet?

It should head straight for th toilet. Smollett shld b replaced by a decent human being. Smollett can't b th only one hu can play that role.

SO many drain/toilet memes...

The FBIChicago should know. They can’t be purchased.

celebrity fear factor

Weirdo.

Wonder how many forgave Ryan Lochte? The double standard is prime example of the hypocrisy of white people!!

He'll go back to work and will live his best life!

Same as Harvey Weinstein's!

Well, Mel Gibson’s still doing movies... so I guess Jussie should be fine, no?

The toilet?

Over

Reality Show Baby!

Garbage can I hope

The talent show at a federal penitentiary.

Not looking good.

His buddies in lockup address waiting

Work with up and coming Directors & producers

Federal Prison 1 Mail Fraud 2 Hate Crime. drama queen Jussie could have started a riot with his hoax hate 'crime' Lock the Felon up. Make an example of this hater

He will be running for President, on the Democrat Line

White House?

End.

Whole Foods?

In the toilet with his guilty ass

Hopefully he gets put in jail after the FBI is done with their investigation

No where without clarification.

He better go back to college.

Garbage can

To Hell I hope!

He can't even pull off being a con artist. He should just quit while he's ahead.

Hopefully to flipping burgers at McDonalds!

Jessie career will go no where. When he get charged by the federal government , for sending him self. a death threat to the set of empire. Good luck Jessie the liar

Political career like his aunt Kamala Harris.

Hopefully away! Now is he gonna try and find the real culprit of this attack? Ain’t he still as upset as he was during robin roberts interview?

Congress. Get some o’dat Obama money u know dat! Write a book, called it “They Paid, I Laid”

You should stop covering him, stop giving him a platform.

Straight to hell I hope.

To another continent?

I’m hoping that we’ve seen the last of him - but who knows? He’s a product of Hollywood, he’s got the race card & gay thing going on plus it’s evident he has some good friends in very high places to protect him.

Imagine caring?

Hopefully down the tubes

N d toliet DF u r

No where! How dare he take resources away from real crimes in a city like Chicago chiraq! He wanted attention he got it. Now get lost.

Career? What career?

Nowhere

To federal prison with him. LockHimUp

Who cares ?

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I'm sure NBC will be giving him a reality show within a year.

He's cute but seems pretty messed up. Sorry.

Down the toilet. Where it belongs.

One word: toilet

fed jail bye

Same place as Colin Karpernick's NFL career.

I guess we know more about Jussie Smollett news than NBC😂😂😂😂😂😂

In the toilet

When the leader was guilty and found to be not exonerated by his own party, citizens don’t expect much laws and orders from his subordinates. When Trump can re-write Mueller Report, he is giving permissions to American people that go break the laws and you won’t be charged.

Hopefully in the sewer

🗑🚽🕳

....do you want fries with that?

I hope some more people use fake attacks and lies to try to further their failing carreers also. Its so funny. Got to adimt this winy little pillowbiter played everyone for a fool and got away with it. Call it McDonald's...i am loving it.

Smollett and Kraft are examples of power and money and Celebrity can get you off the Hook

The same place everyone else who has not been convicted of a crime. Woody Allen is still working.

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Oh! Are you caring about this,,, notreally

MSNBC

Gay porn

Where it belongs 🙄

In the shitter!

should be in jail

Hopefully down the drain; I will not watch anything that he is part of going forward...

This is called 'Black Privilege'

Ladies and gentlemen what have we learned from this? It’s not about skin color. It’s about a person who is rich and affluent getting a slap on the wrist.

Down the tubes. Rightly.

The toilet 😂

To hell I hope. He would be in jail except for his black privalige.

If 'Empire' treats him well, he'll continue to ascend. I have no problem with that. Best Wishes, JussieSmollett .

Knowing the media and Hollywood folks, he will probably get praised for it.

He got all d attention he asked for!!! That's 4 sure. Now he can sell a book & work for realDonaldTrump cabinet

I can't be the only one who doesn't care.

He shouldn’t work as an actor again.

I think he’s a racist! JussieSmollett

I hope to a federal Super-Max facility in the near future...!!!!! JussieSmollett

Gay porn star

Cook County DA Holiday party special guest?

I don’t care where he goes, I just know I won’t watch anything He is in!

Gay. Porn.

Right back where it was before all charges were dropped against him.

Hopefully in the trash.

Hopefully in the shitter.

Where anyone else's career go after making a mistake it goes forward. No one knows better than one who makes a mistake. You just have to be understanding and forgive.

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Answer your question 🥴

Down the shitter would be awesome

I hope he saved

In the gutter where he belongs

CAKE EATER

Yahtzee

Canceled

South.

Into hiding?

Well, Trump is president of the US. I'm assuming Jessie can go on and do whatever he wants to do.

He's going to have to stick his arm way down in the toilet to find it.

Disgusting little man🤮

Porn

I'm hoping down the toilet.

He's dishonest. Guess only the government would hire him.

Down.

I don't care! Just let him go away!

Hopefully nowhere

I'd trump and his bullies can cover up everything for trump and get away with it, why can't a celebrity?

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I really don't care, do you?

After he’s indicted by the Feds? Nowhere

I say the Presidency...no collusion, no conspiracy, total witch hunt right?

Hollywood is filled with sexual predators and enablers. They’ll welcome him back to that cesspool of narcissism. Let’s face it, they even welcomed the anti Semite Mel Gibson back.

Hope nowhere

Hopefully right to reruns.

Hopefully NOWHERE!!!!!!!!

Hopefully in the garbage

This special move to let him off the hook is going to take some very high power people down, and it should. Who has that kind of power to tell a States Attorney to stand down?

What career?

He will get a Pepsi deal like that cardi b chick!

He will be hired by Lee Daniels

Down the drain, Jussie.

Below the DNC skirt

Nowhere. 👎🏾

'He's got notoriety right now. We're talking about him, and people will be interested to see what happens next.' Well then, mission accomplished!! JussieSmollett

Who gives a 💩.

His role as a victim in the last two months is Oscar worthy take away that he initiated a hate crime could have started a race war diminishing anyone with a ligit assault to come forward ..if you have a role of the biggest piece of shit character he is your man

Hollywood will welcome him with open arms. His career will be just fine.

Good Luck Young Man. Sincerely

JussieSmollett career is going up. He sure is going to get much more than what he was asking Empire to pay him. He's made. Even if he doesn't step back on the screen again

He is a liar and doesn’t belong on the show again. Remember Rosanne Barr? He is worse!

It should go up!

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Hopefully, down the tubes

I hope I’m the toilet

Remember He will be accepted again in Hollywood.

He could be a politician in Kentucky. They love liars here.

Who cares

It should go right down the tubes..........

Hope Jussie Smollett’s career goes down the toilet. He’s as guilty as sin and wonder who got involved to get him off?

Flush the toilet

Who cares. How about reporting on real issues.

He will be right back to empire. Garuntee ya that

No where. Hopefully. That POS he is

No where....

Toilet

Maybe he should run for President?

No way I will watch him again. Tried of him saying he is innocent when he knows he is not. He has really ruined it for people who witnesses hate crimes.

Knowing Hollywood, they will welcome him back with open arms and a large contract

anyone hiring this conflicted human, prior to his getting his head together, is asking for sorrow.

He's a fraud, with no integrity....needs to redeem himself, and not worry about his career!

Done with watching ANYTHING this moron is in and DONE with EmpireFOX EmpireWriters JussieSmollett

I really couldn't give a damn. He dug his own hole and it's up to him to climb out of it.

hoaxing is kinda like acting. maybe more hoaxings

He will end up in jail one day just like OJ got away the first time . Karma will come.

He should have owned up and apologized he would have gained more respect

I think his career is hamstrung until what’s sealed is unsealed.

I’d say The Love Boat , but that TV SHOW was canceled decades ago

Down the toilet where it belongs

His performance for the Robin Roberts interview was lackluster, so he shouldn’t be landing any leading roles for a while

The dump

How about a playhouse out in the country for tips and drinks.

That’s a difficult question. How forgiving is the industry?

No where.

They don't make a plunger big enough for that toilet.

Hopefully circles the toilet a few times before disappearing!

Waiting for the docuseries!

Never heard of him before this. Will probably never hear of him again

Who cares?!

Well, he’s got a great future in democrat politics. He’s very well connected and he’s a damn liar

Everyone knows it was a payoff . He will be like OJ.

shadowbanned

In the shitter I hope

Down the tubes!

Gitmo?

To Hell?

The toilet.

Drama teacher in Canada.

Trump's administration is hiring, looking for people with professional experience in defending their own lies on various news channels.

He goes back to work!!!!

Vimeo?

Up! Propelled by the liberal bias In Hollywood. He’s a hero to them not a reprobate.

disgusting shameful, connected with political persons in chicago !

Hopefully in the trash

It’s pitiful to see someone try and take advantage of system like this. Our country is greatly divided right now and JussieSmollett is just trying to make it worse.

Not to jail....

either way hes going to get a D in his A...

Hopefully to jail

So now are they gonna air the 2 episodes they took him out of now!!

In the trash can I hope

Nowhere

Wasn’t exonerated , still guilty and will someday pay for it!

The show entire EmpireFOX needs to be shut down! It just plain sucks!!

His career is doomed!! That’s how I feel. He has lost his fan base for sure. He continues to deny doing anything wrong in spite of the fact that both the prosecutors and the police chief say he staged it.

Career is here! __________

I bet that he will become a key spokesperson for KimFoxxforSA campaign for Mayor of Chicago. How much money did georgesoros just give her? Better watch out ChicagosMayor !

hopefully down the toilet !

Hopefully flushed down the loo.

He cheats

Off-off-off-off Broadway or BET movie of the week.

To face federal charges...

To the dumps!

Porn

Down it is down. !!!!🤬-Sherry

Prison if there’s any justice out there left.

Maybe he can get a regular job like all other Americans. You know since he was treated just like any other American citizen. Charges dropped and case sealed.

Should go in the toilet but he's black, gay, and in Hollywood. He will be elevated in his career and make a ton of money. Hate crimes pay.

IMPO, in the toilet where it belongs. Along with his pathetic imitation of a George Jefferson strut, out of a Chicago courthouse 🙄 Everyone involved deserves so much better, except him.

Well Jussie will have plenty of time in jail to think about were his career goes. I can save him a lot of time thinking about were his career goes from here with one word : TOILET

Where it belong in the toilet

The toilet? 🤔

Who cares?

I hope it is over. He is a race baiter.

EVERYONE calls BS on this one.

Down the shitter?

Hopefully in the toilet where it belongs!

What career...you want fries with that shake? 😎💥😎

Well, I think that sometimes we get what we deserve so....

d_arkin, A favor, when u move on from Smollett, would u write an article on 'Where The Chicago Police Go From Here'? In 2018 the CPD settled misconduct lawsuits to the tune of $113,000,000. DaniAFriedman Chrocadas4 HereComesTania SudsyM Delores275

He could star in a reality series called - Hard time in the big house ⁉️

Who cares!?!?!?!!!!!!

McDonald’s is hiring.

What career?

Direct to the congress along aoc

Hopefully in the trash.....

Some reality show.

Maybe Stormy Daniels can get him a role in one of her porno flicks and Smollette play the gay guy in a threesome... And there's always gay porn...After all his name is Jussie, and we could all see just how 'juicy'..!!..Or, Is it all a hoax with Smollette.?

Hopefully in the toilet.

Inverted Curve. markets

Hopefully down the toilet

Up, up, and awayyyyy!

Chances are that he’s going to run into some vicious white supremacist group and then be able to report a real crime. JussieSmollett NoHateJustTruth

NO WHERE , WE HOPE.

He can join the cast of Power..

Gosh w/millions on the uncertainty about their future healthcare matters & beyond, can ill-afford to waste time worrying about spoiled Smollett. 🤷‍♂️

Who cares?

A little notoriety never hurt an actors career for long. Might even boost his given all charges were dropped and he may sue CPD.

Seriously, who cares? We have so many things to be concerned about, this persons career is not one of them 🙄🤦‍♀️

Down the toilet!🥴

Uber driver

McDonald’s is always hiring

Not the mma that’s for sure.

Praying that it goes NOWHERE...PERIOD

Nowhere.

Hmmmm

WHO CARES?

I guess he can work at Walmart.

He shouldn't be allowed to make money off of this crime. I persy won't be watching any shows with him in it. bansmollett

It should go in the dust bin. He staged a racial hate crime & filed a report to get attention. He scared people in Chicago, lied to the city's police force, & went on TV to play the victim. True hate crimes are tragic events causing pain &, sometimes, death. He mocks true victims

Who cares

I hope this doesn’t erase his career. ♥️🙏

I have an idea

he will be hailed a hero by the gay and the black community, will earn 10 times what he is getting now and will one day win an Oscar! God Bless America! Everybody needs a hero and a spokes person! So let him be YOURS!

I like the show & will still watch it even if he is still on, but the writers still haven't put someone in that coffin we saw the beginning of the season. May be a a way to write him off the show...we shall see.

I guess Trump is hiring. But his acting and singing career is TOAST!!

Nobel Peace Prize for bringing DEM/GOP together? We both believe he’s guilty as HELL!!!

Z-List. I bet trump would give him a gig. Snicker snicker.

I take was his careers you go from here if you're going to damn toilet he's a lying scumbag who tried to create race Wars here in America you said Trump supporters attacked when it was his own friends that did it he's a lying scumbag

in the trash

Arcansided

I pray no where and if Black and White Americans would commit 14 felonies they couldn’t get a job!

The world's his oyster now, look at how far the halfwit in the very top job has made it

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NO ONE CARES

Back to the show. duh.

Netflix?

To the toilet

reality TV

I honestly wish the press would take the advice of the CPD Superintendent and take the time and energy focused on Smollett on things that matter. Just disgusting

I’m thinking there’s going to be a lot of “you want fries with that?” in Jussie Smolletts future

Hollyweird will give him a star

Guilty as shit.

Who cares !!! Please just let this story die a quick death !

Unfortunately, he’ll be labeled a homosexual hero, framed by big bad Trump & horrible Caucasian Conservatives and it’ll probably skyrocket his career in your sick Dumbocratic world!

In the pooper !

Why should u care about a person who puts his own interest above others for the sake of fleeting fame?

In the tank is where it should go.

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On a separate note, when will mainstream media cease portraying African Americans as thugs? Empire has top tiered actors with tired old premise.

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He should be able to come back

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