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Speaker 1: talk about Halloween because we are a weekend removed from Halloween,
Speaker 1: and boy, oh boy, did some costumes calls a star.
Speaker 1: Top of the list is model actress Winnie Harlowe. You
Speaker 1: guys will remember her from America's Sex Top My Winnie
Speaker 1: Harlow dressed up as Whitney Houston and she did two
Speaker 1: very memorable Whitney Houston moments. She dressed up and recreated
Speaker 1: the want to Dance with Somebody video and look which
Speaker 1: was iconic. But she also dressed up and recreated Whitney
Speaker 1: Houston's two thousand and one moment at the BT Awards
Speaker 1: where Whitney Houston was receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. Let's
Speaker 1: take a listen to Whitney Houston in two thousand and
Speaker 1: one accepting this speech.
Speaker 3: On I'm a babo, I'm a bibo? What what? Oh?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 3: Thank you? My gosh, hey wait, that's mine, that's mine.
Speaker 3: Let me handle this.
Speaker 2: But chill, you bet, that's what.
Speaker 1: But now, Whitney Houston, you know, in this moment, especially,
Speaker 1: a lot of the you know, the things from this moment,
Speaker 1: you bet those things have all gone super viral so much.
Speaker 1: Those sounds are used across TikTok, across Instagram, everywhere.
Speaker 2: The memes and not even just this moment.
Speaker 1: The means of Bobby Brown, of the means of the
Speaker 1: means of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, they're everywhere all
Speaker 1: the time, all across social from Facebook to x to Instagram, YouTube,
Speaker 1: all the places.
Speaker 2: There are videos.
Speaker 1: Right now on YouTube just you know, reposting and uploading
Speaker 1: that speech that we just listened to that have over
Speaker 1: four million views. In recent comments, people are still rediscovering
Speaker 1: this moment every single day. Uh, you know this is
Speaker 1: the top you sound on on TikTok as well. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I say all that to say that Winny
Speaker 1: Harlow is not the first person to call back to
Speaker 1: this moment, but people were really upset.
Speaker 2: So she posted a video.
Speaker 1: She's dressed just like Whitney Houston, hair just like Whitney Houston,
Speaker 1: and she reenacts that moment that we just heard and
Speaker 1: walked in. It does a whole you know, walk out
Speaker 1: and you know there's a whole thing that went along
Speaker 1: with this, and the fans are upset. Now, the Whitney
Speaker 1: Houston Instagram, the official Instagram account controlled by the Whitney
Speaker 1: Houston estate, reposted the video themselves and just you know,
Speaker 1: noted that you know, it was Winny Harlow and she
Speaker 1: redid the iconic moment. They weren't upset about it, but
Speaker 1: the people were. So people are in the comments of
Speaker 1: this instagram and here are some of the comments. So
Speaker 1: one person says, there are so many highlights of Whitney's
Speaker 1: life and career to honor. This feels like making fun
Speaker 1: of someone where they would when they were having a
Speaker 1: hard time, and this is people pointing to, you know,
Speaker 1: allegations that this was during the time when Whitney Houston was,
Speaker 1: you know, using drugs and doing different things. The common continues,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's not your intention. Maybe it's not that deep,
Speaker 1: but some of her day one fans really still miss
Speaker 1: her and feel bad about how we lost her. You
Speaker 1: guys will remember that Whitney Houston passed away in February
Speaker 1: of twenty twelve and Beverly Hills, California, the day before
Speaker 1: the Grammy Awards. She accidentally drowned in a hotel room,
Speaker 1: and at the time she had left behind her daughter,
Speaker 1: Bobby Christina, who also went on to pass away three
Speaker 1: years later after that at the age of twenty two.
Speaker 1: You know, it was just tragic all around. There's been
Speaker 1: so much conversation just about today.
Speaker 2: I think today, in twenty.
Speaker 1: Twenty five, there's a lot more conversation about how we
Speaker 1: deal with people and how we have conversations with people
Speaker 1: when they're going through things, regardless of what we think
Speaker 1: those things are.
Speaker 2: Because there's a lot.
Speaker 1: Of moments with you know, Whitney Houston that again are
Speaker 1: super viral where people like to have conversations about what
Speaker 1: they think was happening, whether it was drug use or whatever.
Speaker 2: But there's a lot that.
Speaker 1: We we didn't know the answer to, and even if
Speaker 1: we did, there are still conversations that are happening very
Speaker 1: intensely today in twenty twenty five about how we deal
Speaker 1: with people going through things. And that's what sparked some
Speaker 1: of the backlash, with people and fans of Whitney Houston
Speaker 1: feeling like Winnie Harlow was not being sensitive to whatever
Speaker 1: Whitney Houston would have been dealing with at the time
Speaker 1: of this moment. Another person commented, and they're commenting on
Speaker 1: the official Whitney Houston Instagram page and says, don't like
Speaker 1: it her I want to dance with somebody.
Speaker 2: Look was cute and was enough.
Speaker 1: Whitney was not at her healthiest during this time, and
Speaker 1: cosplaying the time of her life is in poor taste.
Speaker 1: She has so many other beautiful looks to choose from now.
Speaker 1: Winnie Harlow has actually gone to her Instagram to respond
Speaker 1: to the backlash that she received, and she says, firstly,
Speaker 1: majority of the responses have been incredibly positive. Because there
Speaker 1: were some positive responses people feeling like, yes, this was
Speaker 1: an iconic Whitney Houston moment so rightfully. So you know
Speaker 1: this is like another way.
Speaker 2: Of honor and Whitney.
Speaker 1: Winnie Harlow continues, I've loved seeing you guys love these
Speaker 1: Halloween looks. My video wasn't mocking Whitney. That clip has
Speaker 1: always been one of my favorite moments of hers. She
Speaker 1: was radiant, funny, confident and captivating. She was being awarded
Speaker 1: the way she moved across that stage with flair and swag,
Speaker 1: question mark iconic period. You better lay low is something
Speaker 1: I say at least once a week. My mother is
Speaker 1: one of her biggest fans and named me Whitney after her.
Speaker 1: Oh why I didn't know that Winnie Harlow's real name
Speaker 1: was Whitney. Why did I think that Winni Harlow's real
Speaker 1: name was Winnie Harlow. Let's look that up. Okay, wait,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of name changes here with her. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm confused. Okay, so Winnie Harlow. So Winnie
Speaker 1: Harlow's birth name is Chantel. I don't know, because Fashion
Speaker 1: Week did did an interview with Winnie Harlow back in
Speaker 1: December of twenty twenty eight, and They said, your birth
Speaker 1: name is Chantel Brown Young. Where did the name Winny
Speaker 1: Harlow come from? And she said, it's literally just from
Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh. I was a big fan growing up,
Speaker 1: and this actually is from a joke with some friends.
Speaker 2: We were on the phone with some boys.
Speaker 1: I grabbed the phone from one of my girls and
Speaker 1: was like, don't get my friend's attitude, and the boys
Speaker 1: asks to asis. I looked over and my friend was
Speaker 1: wearing a Winnie to Boo T shirt. So I said,
Speaker 1: my name is Whinny. When I started working, it felt
Speaker 1: kind of naturally just continue with it. Harlow comes from
Speaker 1: Jean Harlow. I'm a really big Maryland Moree fan, but
Speaker 1: I didn't want to use Moree because that felt cheesy.
Speaker 1: But Jean Harlow was one of Merlin's real, big career inspirations,
Speaker 1: so I took the name Harlow. I do love my
Speaker 1: actual name a lot. At the beginning, I tried to
Speaker 1: go by Chantal Winnie, but then decided to keep Winnie,
Speaker 1: Harlow and Chantal separate.
Speaker 2: My family calls me Schantel. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this was Fashionweekdaily dot Com back in December of
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. But here in this post, and she's saying
Speaker 1: that her legal name is Whitney. That's her real legal name,
Speaker 1: so maybe there's been a couple name changes. She also
Speaker 1: she's always been a queen in my house. When he continues,
Speaker 1: people are more than headlines. A woman who could command
Speaker 1: a room, make you laugh, and carry yourself like royalty.
Speaker 1: If all you see when you see Whitney are her struggles,
Speaker 1: you're missing her charisma, her humor, her talent, personality and wit.
Speaker 2: She was hilarious and magnetic. That and that isn't on capitals.
Speaker 1: That is and what should be always highlighted the light
Speaker 1: that made us all love her attention to positivity. So
Speaker 1: I guess my question to you guys is where do
Speaker 1: you stand on this? You know, for me, I felt
Speaker 1: like it was a costume. I felt like it was
Speaker 1: a moment. I understand where people are coming from, but.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I felt like it was a costume.
Speaker 2: It was a moment.
Speaker 1: I also feel like Winnie Harlowe is not the first
Speaker 1: person to not even recreate, but to lean in and
Speaker 1: utilize and talk about and repost this moment. It's not
Speaker 1: like she, you know, came out of nowhere.
Speaker 2: With it.
Speaker 1: We see this on our timelines and in conversation all
Speaker 1: the time. I've even said before on the Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: I forget what was talking about when dare I remember
Speaker 1: doing the you better lay low like It's become one
Speaker 1: of those signature moments in pop culture. And I know
Speaker 1: that people go through things behind these moments, and that's
Speaker 1: why people are upset. And I love the battle that
Speaker 1: we do and that we have for people to have
Speaker 1: the right to go through these moments in private. But
Speaker 1: I don't think that, you know, even if Winnie, like,
Speaker 1: let's say, right and again, this is not what she
Speaker 1: says she was doing.
Speaker 2: But even if Winnie did the.
Speaker 1: Costume, because not because she thought, you know, Whitney Houston
Speaker 1: was as brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous as we all
Speaker 1: know she was, but just because that moment was a
Speaker 1: big moment, it's still in some way fair because it is.
Speaker 1: It's everywhere, it's Whitney Houston. But let me know how
Speaker 1: you guys think, you know, take it to the streets
Speaker 1: and the tweets, my little riding outside, we outside, we
Speaker 1: outside outside, Halloween is here, Halloween has come, Halloween has gone.
Speaker 1: Actually next year, though, do we have to be sensitive
Speaker 1: about what costumes we're choosing?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: I know certain things are off limits, and we don't
Speaker 1: got to even get into those things. I don't want
Speaker 1: to see nobody that ain't skin folk, Kim Flok and
Speaker 1: black face. We get that, But when it comes to
Speaker 1: things like this, are we about to start trying to
Speaker 1: have a conversation around canceling people because of the moments
Speaker 1: they choose to highlight and what they choose to represent
Speaker 1: on a holiday that is supposed to be about fun
Speaker 1: and recreating iconic moments. Let me know, I'm going the
Speaker 1: rose and at the end of the day, y'all could
Speaker 1: always be somewhere with anybody else talking about all of
Speaker 1: these things. Baby, the Halloween controversy is everywhere. They didn't
Speaker 1: got Kanye West's ex and actress Julia Fox dragging her
Speaker 1: right now for dressing up as Jackie Kennedy with the
Speaker 1: bloodstained dress after President Kennedy was assassinated. You have Bobby
Speaker 1: Lights from Love and Hip Hop, who dressed up as
Speaker 1: Little nas X when he had one of his mental
Speaker 1: breakdowns recently, dragging him as well.
Speaker 2: Now that I understand you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But even that some people argue, and I also understand
Speaker 1: the uh, the Kennedy and you know, Julia Fox and
Speaker 1: people being upset about that, but I don't really know.
Speaker 1: I feel like Wenie Harlowe did a really good job,
Speaker 1: but I didn't take it maliciously.
Speaker 2: But y'all let me know what y'all think.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's always gonna be controversy and we'll always be
Speaker 1: right here to talk about it at the latest with
Speaker 1: Una Rosa.
Speaker 2: I will see you guys in my next episode.