Both Ellen DeGeneres and Jeffree Star, have found themselves atop the unpopular list in 2020, as fans abandoned the pair after a rather controversial year.
The celeb who lost the most followers on their social media in 2020 was Ellen DeGeneres. The talk-show host lost over half a million followers on Instagram (estimated potential loss of £1,706.69 per sponsored post) and over 612,000 followers on Twitter. Earlier this year she became embroiled in controversy over the treatment of staffers on her show.
Coming in second was makeup guru Jeffree Star, who lost over 487,000 followers on Twitter and 444,000 followers on Instagram.
Jeffree Star’s cosmetic account ranks third with a loss of nearly 445,000 Instagram followers. Jeffree is a well-known influencer, makeup artist (MUA) and Youtuber. Star has been repeatedly accused of using racist language and most recently accused of manipulation regarding one of the most dramatic public feuds within the beauty industry.
Following a backlash over the writer’s stance on transgender people, J.K Rowling lost nearly 351,000 followers on Twitter.
With cancel culture being such a volatile concept, GamblingDeals.com were keen to investigate the impact surrounding celebrity controversies in 2020. They analysed the statistics of notorious figures on SocialBlade.com to see who lost the most followers and whether their estimated potential earnings took a hit as a result.
Ellen DeGeneres places first again as the celebrity with the most Twitter unfollows with a loss of 612,005 followers. However, she still has 79,539,440 followers and ranks as the ninth most-followed account on Twitter.
In second place is Jeffree Star with a loss of 487,151 followers between June and September. Jeffree is the cover picture of controversy yet somehow survives the scandals, considering since September 2020 to the end of October he has already gained 12,616 followers – this begs the question of is ‘cancel culture’ effective?
GamblingDeals.com can reveal that JK Rowling ranks third. The Harry Potter author lost nearly 351,000 Twitter followers from May to the middle of October 2020 – however, her follows are on the rise again.
Interestingly, a few celebrities such as Jeffree Star, Kanye West and JK Rowling are now recovering since their controversy as their followers are back on the rise, indicating that cancel culture has an expiry date. Kanye West, for example, now boasts 1,703,314 more followers since his lowest number in June.
Jimmy Fallon, Tyra Banks, Kanye West, Lana Del Ray and Nick Cannon all lost tens of thousands of followers following various controversies in 2020.
GamblingDeals.com scoured SocialBlade.com to find the top ten celebrities with the highest Instagram and Twitter unfollowing in 2020. Estimated maximum potential earnings per sponsored post on Instagram was calculated by the number of followers*£0.00313.
There’s money to be made in the gold-rush that is OnlyFans and Drag Queens, especially of the RuPaul Drag Race alumni are making sure to cash in on their fame.
RuPaul’s Drag Race star Plastique Tiara has recently followed in the footsteps of Cardi B, Blac Chyna and Bella Thorne, in becoming the latest high profile name to join OnlyFans. Queen Plastique charges her fans $22.49 (£17.73) per month to explore an x-rated side of this drag persona and combined with her 1.8m Instagram following, SlotsUp calculated her estimated earnings to be £480,674 per month.
Fellow contender, Shea Couleecharges a monthly subscription price of $4.99 (£3.94) and combined with her Instagram following of 1.3m the Drag Race star could earn £122,771 per month flashing for cash on OnlyFans… Shantay, you stay!
So how did the researchers work out how much drag queens could be paid?
Users charge their followers a monthly subscription fee to see their photos and videos and OnlyFans take a commission of around 20%. The adult platform has its own calculator to work out how much celebs could be earning, all based on their social media following. https://onlyfans.com/how
We’ve combined their Instagram followers with their average monthly subscription price, and taken off OnlyFans 20% commission to estimate what each of these stars could be earning.
It’s probably only a matter of time before the other queens cash in on the Cam action for the $$$
Adult star Austin Wolf, has shared a heartwarming story to his 458,000 fans on Twitter of coming out to his mum for National Coming Out Day.
Like so many people, Austin chose to come out to his mum on the phone when he was still a teenager.
Speaking in a video, posted to Twitter, the star, said,
“When I came out I was 17/18 years old and it was actually over the phone with my mother, who was, needless to say upset, not happy. But when it came down to it, she loved me and she listened, she wanted to learn”.
However, as Austin goes on to share, love plays a huge part in family members getting over their initial feelings when their loved ones come out to them.
He continued,
“I actually remember her calling the rest of my family, very dramatic of course, ‘if you can’t accept him, then you can’t accept all of us’, which coming from a woman from Texas… and definitely didn’t exactly have an open mind about homosexuality at the time… that’s what love does”.
Wolf who has filmed scenes for studios like Cocky Boys, shared the video on his social media and many of his fans thanked him for telling his story.
Fellow porn star, Ryan Cox added, “I had a very similar experience…I came out to my mom over the phone on November 25, 2007. That day changed my entire world. I am very fortunate to say my family fully accepted me as ME and has never waivered all these years later.”
Happy #NationalComingOutDay, Austin. I had a very similar experience…I came out to my mom over the phone on November 25, 2007. That day changed my entire world. I am very fortunate to say my family fully accepted me as ME and has never waivered all these years later. ❤️is ❤️
— RYANthePig__ PhD(Porn), PhD (Bate) 💋32K (@ryancoxxx) October 11, 2020
A fan, wrote how “uplifting” the video was while another added that the story was “touching”.
One commented added that Austin clearly had an “amazing mum”.
Want to see Austin Wolf in action at Cocky Boys? Click here (NSFW)
Taking to YouTube is now one of the best ways for stars to talk directly to their fans, especially about painful or personal experience. Their stories are told in their own voice and there’s no distortion of the truth.
These awesome people made the decision to come out on their own terms and we applaud them.
Matt And Blue, Actor and Musician
226,415
Despite coming out through a Twitter post back in 2013, Matt Dallas and his partner Blue Hamilton decided to make a coming out video to talk about the how’s, the why’s and the everything’s… Super cute and really fun.
In possibly the most fun coming out video Lucas literally burst out of the closet and into the open after one fan asked the simple question “are you gay”.
Troye Sivan, X Men Actor turned singer
6,436,896 views
X Men actor Troye came out on YouTube at the age of 18 in 2013. In his emotional video he said,
“I’m terrified. I know that some people are going to have a problem with this. This could kind of change everything for me, but it shouldn’t have to. And that’s why I’m making this video, and that’s why I think it’s important for people to make these kinds of videos.”
Shane Dawson, YouTuber
7,264,707 views
In 2015 Shane Dawson came out as bisexual in a video that has now been seen over 7 million times. He said, emotionally,
“This is a really hard video to make. I’m really scared… I never thought I would be making this, ever. I woke up this morning and I just had to.
“I’m making this video because I feel like it could help a lot of people. Over the last year, I’ve been extremely sexually confused.
“I always wished that I was gay, that I was just 100 percent gay. It would be a lot easier to be accepted by people… but I’m not.
Joey Graceffa, YouTuber
6,734,448 views
Gorgeous Joey came out on YouTube as gay in 2015. He went on to release a music video which featured a pretty hot, non heteronormative story line of princes falling in love with each other.
Connor Franta, YouTuber,
10, 355,416 views
Connor Franta’s coming out video made mainstream news. In a video simply named “Coming Out” the YouTuber told his 3.6 subscribers that he was gay, saying,
“I’m sitting here with no script, no plan, no fancy editing, and I’m just gonna be really honest,”
Tom Daley, Diver,
11,761, 500 views
The Olympic champion diver took to YouTube at the end of 2013 to say that he was in a relationship with a man. He described the posting of the video as a “hard decision to make” but ultimately he wanted his fans to hear it directly from him.
Ingrid Nilsen, YouTuber.
14, 1999,691
Ingrid came out as gay in 2015 in a highly emotional video and is to date the second most viewed coming out YouTube video, which might be down to the fact that the vlogger has nearly 4 million subscribers.
The Rhodes Bros
21, 773,092 views
Reaching out far ahead of any other YouTube coming out video is the
Rhodes’ twins coming out as gay to their father on the phone. The video had huge media pick up which help ratchet the views to over 21 million.
I grew up in suburban Brisbane, I didn’t really realise I was gay until I was 18 and in Sydney. I guess I remember having posters of the Spice Girls and having a crush on Leonardo DiCaprio, but I didn’t really attribute it to being gay because schoolyard slagging, like poofta and faggot seemed like something negative with those things, and I didn’t feel negative about who I was. So I never really attributed being gay to who I was, until Sydney.
My friends took me to Stonewall, which is a bar in Sydney, and I just remember like being, “hang on, all of these people are gay, this newspaper, this is a gay newspaper!” I just remember that very first night, it all just made sense, and I was like: Oh I get it! That night I had my first kiss and went home with my first boy all on one night – and they were two separate people!
My Mum and Dad came to Sydney and we were having dinner and I was talking about friends who were drag queens and boys with strange names like ‘Girl Craig’ and I remember my Mum asking, whether if one of them was my “special friend…” there was that awkward moment at the table, and Dad was like, “I’m going to get a drink…” and we all sort of stood up and left the table.
The next day we didn’t talk about it again. I remember calling my friend and like crying in the bathroom not knowing what to do and going to my friend’s house. I remember a time, struggling coming out to my parents and my own gender identity, I didn’t know whether I wanted to be the archetype ‘gay underwear model’ or be a woman because I was doing drag and I had a lot of people telling me that because I was so pretty I should take hormones and live as a woman and I know I felt very confused about everything. The next day, at the only job I’ve ever had in my life, like a ‘real’ job, I was working at an internet café and I went home for lunch, I guess I had a bottle of wine in the fridge, and I sat there eating lunch at home drinking a bottle of wine, watching Touched By An Angel on television, I just remember like crying, I guess it was inspired by Touched By An Angel, but the cry went much deeper than that. I remember it was just like howling. I sent Mum a text, this is the year 2000, so the advent of text was a new thing, and I texted I AM GAY. She wrote back, ‘That’s nice dear see you at dinner!’
So that night at dinner my Dad said that he had lived with 6 drag queens back in the 70s, I asked him to stop there; I felt that one revelation was enough for the night.
Jamie came out via a tabloid newspaper after appearing in Britain’s Got Talent
I was already out as a person. I wasn’t a sort of person who was in the closet. I’ve been out for years. I never really came out. I was just me. The reason I felt like I had to do it was because I thought Dan (Wootton) would handle this perfectly.
I think The Sun was brilliant about it. I knew they would do a good story, so I thought they were the ones to go with. Let me tell you the issues I have. I think it’s very brave for people to come out via YouTube, but I do dream of a world where that isn’t necessary anymore.
The reason I did choose The Sun, I made them have the headline: My Parents Always Knew rather than Jamie From Collabro Comes Out, because I wasn’t coming out. I’m perfectly happy with myself and I always have been. I think the stars that do it on YouTube are very brave and I give all credit to them, but I do dream of a world where we don’t have to do that anymore.
Danyl Johnson was seemingly outted on national TV by a judge on the X Factor
I went down to Dannii’s (Minogue) dressing room the next day, no one was there. She was a bit upset, and I said, “What’s the matter? Are you okay?” She apologised to me. She was reading stuff on Twitter and someone tweeted, “Every time you out a fairy, another fairy dies.”
That stays in my mind and why Dannii was upset. It was like my life was the weirdest thing.
A couple of months beforehand, I’m in a classroom teaching kids, then one moment I’m standing in Dannii’s dressing room watching her reading messages on Twitter. It was the most surreal moment ever. It was never intentional. It was taken completely the wrong way.
I didn’t really take it to heart. I don’t think it’s the same story in her book, but oh well…
Was first married to a woman and so was his husband… They fell in love
It really is, and you know, what’s so wonderful about the entire experience is that we both grew up around the same time frames in, you know, the seventies and eighties, where in the US, it was very much so, you lived a closeted life. There were no gay people, and if you were, you were just kind of like in the closet. It just wasn’t very accepted, especially in the small towns that we grew up in. Both of us really essentially married our high-school sweethearts, and then tortured, we were tortured. Ended up realising in time that this obviously wasn’t fair to ourselves, but certainly not to our wives.
So really we were both sitting and dreaming of this life that we wanted to have, like we had with our ex-wives, with a home and the kids, but with a man. It was time to be honest with ourselves. I prayed for this Prince Charming, and there he was silently praying for the same thing, and there we were. Now it’s ironic how many similar situations we’ve had growing up, but it’s nice to have some similarities there that we really were both dreaming of the same thing.
Coming from a very religious background has helped Jamal create powerful art which challenges homophobia.
Religion told me I was a sinner, an abomination. I was told by people in my school that I was going to go to hell. I used to pray to God to pray the gay away. But as I grew older, I was able to balance myself and my religion. I believe in the concept of a god, but I am of the view that I can believe in God; but because my race is so important to me I find it hard to believe in the bible, primarily because of the history of colonialism and the use of the bible in that process. When I look at the link between colonialism and the Bible, it is not something that I want to embrace or accept.
My black heritage and my identity as a black man is something that is more important to me than my sexuality is; and the way in which the bible was used during that period of time was wholly unacceptable. For me, it remains a symbol of repression in many ways. It was used to repress the black community many years ago and, in my experiences as a younger person, it was used to repress my sexuality – but despite that, it doesn’t prevent me from embracing the idea of a higher power.
Well I enlisted under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, so I was open in my personal life, but when I joined the military I was advised to go back into the closet and I did. This was going to be a career that I was embarking on and I didn’t want anything to get in the way of my hard work and my commitment. With Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, if the wrong person found out that you were gay, or suspected you of being homosexual, they could present that to the chain of command and there would be an investigation that would take place. You could be discharged from the military simply for being homosexual.
So imagine that not everyone is comfortable with homosexuality. I was completely in the closet for the first two years and it was very challenging because I would be in class or in the hall and I would hear conversations that would take place. All these people were from all over the United States, from all walks of life, brought together with a common goal, but they still have their opinions.
It was a thing in my head, I knew always really. So I didn’t think twice, that was just the way it was. I didn’t want to make a big deal about it, what’s the biggie?
Not all small-town America coming out stories are tragic
My parents are like my best friends. They have been so supportive and are so amazing. That was the great thing about it, is people assume. They say, “Well, growing up in this small Oklahoma town, with this masculine football coach as your dad, he must have pressured you to play football.” Then, “Honey, he took me out on a football field once and threw the ball at me and I’m playing with my hair and just completely missed the ball.
I was kind of half out at school, you know, a few of my friends knew. I spoke to them at quite a young age, probably about 14 or so. It got leaked. One of my friends wasn’t too tactful, I’m afraid. I decided to deal with it head on and not just deny it and admit it because I knew one day that I would just have to admit it again anyway. That certainly put me off speaking to my parents about it or anything like that because teenagers and kids, you know, they can be nasty, whatever it is. Had a bit of trouble at school and suffered quite a bit of bullying for a long period of time. I guess for about a year, it was just non-stop. It meant I spent a lot of time on my own and kind of hiding from people but I stand by it now. I don’t hold anything against anybody. Everybody’s looking for a weakness in somebody else at that age because they’ve got their own concerns about themselves. It certainly made me stronger and it made me a better person I think.
I only just come out to my mum a couple years ago and it’s still like a weird topic for us, so when I came out and went home straight away I was really scared but yeah she’s been really supportive. The last thing she said to me before I left was, “Aaron you’ll always be a winner in my eyes”. She’s been really supportive and I’m really blessed with that.
Well, I was out to my family and friends, but I’ve not done anything in the public eye worth to even talk about it. It was old news to me, but this show is about your story. It was important. I just wanted to lay my cards on the table.
Adam is very good at the group email thing, coming from his MP’s background – everyone CC’d in. We were day 4 into rehearsals and it was just getting more awkward and awkward. ‘Are you seeing anyone Kav? – Are you married’? I just couldn’t get the words out as ridiculous as that sounds.
Kenzie still doesn’t believe I’m gay for whatever reason. I could turn up singing The Wizard Of Oz in ruby slippers and he’d be like: ‘You’re not gay’. Adam was like ‘I knew it, I knew it…’ and I was like ‘you can’t talk – you’re the campest one of the group!’ So there was a lot of banter, but it was fine… Every group needs a gay don’t they?
It changed my life and enabled me to become who I am today – the real me. It enabled me to be more confident and achieve more than I ever would have done if I’d have stayed in the closet.
Porn star Drew Dixon has admitted that he got his rather distinctive bird tattoo design off someone’s Pinterest page. In a candid social media post, the star told fans that people, who asked about the ink, often mistook the bird for an “evil pigeon” before admitting he had no idea what kind of bird it was, saying that the design was actually “from Pinterest”.
The tattoo was a birthday present from Drew to Drew and according to the performer, “marked a change” in his life, adding, “It symbolises my freedom, to be able to spread my wings and take flight, go where the wind takes me, see the world in its glory, looking at the bigger picture, taking everything in before making decisions”.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFodncHhcpM/
The star who has recently been working with Lucas Entertainment was recently spotted in Nottingham, UK, for a mass orgy-scene organised by the studio.
One of the UK’s biggest pop stars, Will Young has gone on the record to admit to using nudey mags to “pleasure” himself.
Writing about his struggle to accept his sexuality, in his new memoir, To Be A Gay Man, the singer admitted that using gay porn magazines was part of the process of coming to terms with being gay. He said that he bought the magazines from newsagents “under a veil of guilt and shame.”
Will Young was the first winner of Pop Idol back in 2002. The day after he won the competition his sexuality became front-page news and was splashed across all the tabloid press in the UK.
“It took me a few weeks to build up my courage, but one day I went in and purchased three of these magazines,” Will describes in the memoir.
“As I went up to the till, the feeling of dread I had was almost overpowering.”
“I felt as though something awful was going to happen [like] the shopkeeper would make some comment or judgement, and people in the shop would point and stare at me.”
In his book he explains that he would take the mags into the train’s toilet and knock one out, before throwing the magazine away, ensuring “that there was no evidence.”
With the elections looming in the US, one porn star, Beaux Banks has found the PERTY way to ask his fans whether they’re registered to vote.
There are so many ways to encourage people to register to vote, and sometimes you just have to use your given talents to persuade people.
We’ve gotta say that Beaux’s way is very appealing.
In a cheeky picture, wearing a very sexy pair of Andrew Christian jocks, posted on social media, he wrote, “May I ASSk you a question….Are You Registered To Vote? If not head to vote.gov and get registered today!”
Now if this perky pic doesn’t get you to register we don’t know what will, well that and obviously exercising your democratic rights.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFcxQm4AnUG/
Fans thanked the star for using his platform to get people to register. One user commented “You are so awesome” while another added, “Well played sir, well played!”.
We do love a lockdown love in and that’s apparently what happened to Skin, when her partner proposed to her during the lockdown, what’s more, she let it slip by accident on a podcast, saying, “I think you’re the first person I’ve told. Oops!”.
She made the slip up on the Danielle Perry podcast show, Elevenses. Speaking about relationships the singer shared,
“I think that your partner has to really be your best friend too because that’s the person you spend so much time with. Especially in lockdown. Lockdown has been a real test of a relationship.
“A lot of people are like ‘Wow, we really didn’t get on and that was the end of that relationship, because I realised after two months of being in lockdown that we’re not the same people.’ And some other people, like me, got engaged and stuff like that”.
The QUEEN of pop Madonna is trending on social media and it’s not about what controversial thing she’s supposed to have said, or people complaining about “how-inappropriate-her-clothes-are-for-her-age”, nope, it’s about her biopic and who is going to film it.
Madonna and the big screen haven’t always been easy bedfellows, there have been the highs (In Bed With Madonna) and there have been the lows remember Swept Away? But her next film project, the yet unnamed biopic, is something we can’t wait to see.
And there’s no doubt who will be taking the reigns with this project. Madonna herself.
Universal Pictures has announced that they have greenlit the film and Madonna is going to be directing and co-writing the project herself.
This, of course, was foretold in an interview with Graham Norton…
Fans were quick to celebrate Ryan’s performance though, with one writing, “I knew you’d be a star the minute I seen this video no fear, no care, just loving life”
In an interview with the Daily Star in 2016, Ryan alleged that he was dating one of the show’s producers who said he could get the reality star “far in the competition” despite the fact that Ryan can’t sing.
A spokesperson for the X Factor refuted the claim at the time.
