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        <title><![CDATA[MTV fires Taylor Selfridge, pulls ‘Teen Mom’ special over past racist statements]]></title>
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            <media:title type="html">MTV fires Taylor Selfridge, pulls ‘Teen Mom’ special over past racist statements</media:title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MTV has cut ties with reality star Taylor Selfridge.</p><p>The network announced Tuesday that it shelved Selfridge and boyfriend Cory Wharton&#8217;s special episode, &#8220;Teen Mom OG at Home: Cory &amp; Taylor&#8217;s Baby Special,&#8221; because of offensive tweets.</p><p>&#8220;MTV pulled [the special] . . . and is ending our relationship with Taylor Selfridge in light of her past racist statements on social media,&#8221; an MTV spokesperson <strong>tells People</strong>. &#8220;MTV strongly condemns systemic racism and stands with those raising their voices against injustice.&#8221;</p><p>Selfridge, 25, originally appeared on &#8220;Are You the One?&#8221; in 2017 and &#8220;Ex on the Beach&#8221; in 2018, where she met Wharton, 29. He has appeared on &#8220;The Challenge&#8221; and &#8220;The Real World.&#8221; The couple, who welcomed their first child together in April, self-shot footage of the weeks leading up to the birth in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><figure id="attachment_15808883"  class="wp-caption alignright"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/teen-mom-cory-taylor-01.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/06/teen-mom-cory-taylor-01.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/teen-mom-cory-taylor-01.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Taylor Selfridge (left) and Cory Wharton in a scene from &#8220;Teen Mom&#8221;</span><span class="credit">MTV</span></figcaption></figure><p><strong>According to the Blast</strong>, Selfridge&#8217;s past racist tweets include, &#8220;We have to greet everyone at work but sometimes I won&#8217;t greet the Black people because they scare me,&#8221; and &#8220;My uncle is dating an Asian. Aunt Ping please make me sushi.&#8221;</p><p>Selfridge and Wharton are the latest examples of TV networks purging cast members in light of the Black Lives Matter movement. This week, <strong>Bravo fired &#8220;Vanderpump Rules&#8221; stars</strong> Stassi Schroeder, Kristen Doute, Max Boyens and Brett Caprioni over past remarks and actions, particularly after it was revealed that Schroeder and Doute allegedly called the police on <strong>former co-star Faith Stowers</strong>, who is black. MTV also <strong>severed their relationship</strong> with Dee Nguyen from &#8220;The Challenge&#8221; over offensive tweets relating to race.</p><p>Selfridge previously apologized for her remarks on Season 8 of &#8220;Teen Mom,&#8221; saying, &#8220;At the time, because I was younger, I wasn&#8217;t thinking it was anything negative. I thought &#8216;Oh, this is funny&#8217; or something like that, but it&#8217;s not. This happened a long time ago.&#8221;</p><p>She also reacted to MTV not airing her special on Instagram: &#8220;I made the decision last week to not film the next season of Teen Mom OG with Cory for the benefit of myself and my daughter. I don&#8217;t believe the reality TV lifestyle benefits me any further at this point in my life,&#8221; she wrote in a post for her 884,000 followers on her Instagram, which has since been made private.</p><p>&#8220;Once again, I apologize for anyone I have hurt or offended in the past. I have addressed my mistakes many times on the network and I would like to move on and continue to be the best version of myself. My past does not define who I am today and I hope you guys can see the change. Please respect my decision to provide a normal, healthy life for my family.&#8221;</p><p>Hours before the special was supposed to air, Wharton was promoting it on his Instagram page, People reports. &#8220;Tonight I had the pleasure of shooting a one hour special about the birth of my youngest daughter Mila Mae Wharton,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;During a Worldwide pandemic, I had one of the happiest days of my life and now I get to share it with you guys,&#8221; he wrote on the social media platform.</p><p>Selfridge and Wharton <strong>have a YouTube channel with more than 58,000 subscribers</strong> called &#8220;The Wharton Family,&#8221; where they document their lives raising their daughter, Mila Mae, and Wharton&#8217;s 3-year-old daughter, Ryder, whom he had with his ex Cheyenne Floyd, also of MTV fame.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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