Actress and comedian Colleen Ballinger, better known as her Netflix and YouTube character Miranda Sings, has been accused of grooming a 13-year-old boy that was a fan of her work — and he has posted the receipts to back his claims.
The 33-year-old has been accused of inappropriate behavior by Adam Mcintyre, who is now 17-years-old.
In a video posted to YouTube titled “colleen ballinger, stop lying,” McIntyre explains that beyond behaving inappropriately with him, she also had him ghostwrite content for her without pay.
Mcintyre claims that when he was 13-years-old Ballinger and her best friend Kory DeSoto found his Twitter page dedicated to her work while they were livestreaming and thought he was funny.
They then decided that they were going to send the child the lingerie that DeSoto was wearing during the stream.
Ballinger clearly knew his age, as they joked about how his parents would react to adults sending him a bra and panties. Mcintyre says that they sent them anyways — and held them up in the video to prove it.
“Looking back at that, I’m still a minor, I’m still 17 […] I’m really disgusted at the situation, and confused honestly,” Mcintyre said. “They went on my Twitter because they thought it was funny and then they said they had to send me the bra and panties.”
Over the last few years, Mcintyre formed a “close friendship” with Ballinger, who he believes baited him by commenting on his YouTube videos and promising him a trips to the United States from his home in Ireland. The two even met twice when the comedian traveled to Dublin, though he says his mother was extremely worried about the situation.
His parents became so concerned about why a grown woman would be messaging a child about her divorce that they began monitoring the conversations. When Ballinger sent the lingerie his mother was outraged and confiscated it.
That friendship was one-sided, according to Mcintyre’s account of the situation. Ballinger would frequently ask favors like digging up information on her ex-husband and posting to her social media accounts for her. The teen admits that he was “dumb, impressionable, young, naive, whatever I want to call it.”
The reason Mcintyre decided to expose the inappropriate behavior is that the comedian recently “turned on him” for tweets he had sent on her account while she was using him as a “social media intern.” The tweet had got some blowback from fans for “queerbaiting.”
Since Mcintyre’s video went viral, Ballinger has been accused of “grooming” and “exploiting” the teen boy, but has not yet responded to any of the allegations.
A heroic California restaurant owner blocked in a Los Angeles County health inspector’s car after he attempted to shut his business down for allowing outdoor dining, asserting that “if we can’t work, you can’t work.”
Carlos Roman, the owner of Bread & Barley in Covina, did not back down even after police arrived.
“He wants to come in here and say that no one can work, so he can’t work either,” Roman told the officer. “He decided to come today and take photos of the people outside and say that he was going to fine us,” he explained.
Roman refused to move his truck, telling the officer to go ahead and get her supervisor.
“This is what happens when people get desperate. I’m desperate. Who is going to pay her car payment? Who is going to pay my cook’s rent?” Roman asked the officer. “I want it to be hard on everyone. I want everyone to see how hard this sh-t is.”
The outraged owner demanded to know if the inspector and the officer got paychecks last week, asserting that his employees haven’t.
“You’re just doing your job right, we’re all in this together?” Roman asked the inspector. “When I go to the bank, can I tell the bank the health department said it’s ok and that I don’t have to pay you?”
“What do I tell my employees?” Roman shouted.
Roman is now facing two $500 fines for failure to comply and interfering with the health officer.
A GoFundMe campaign to support the restaurant has raised over $20,000.
The state-sanctioned Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower in New York City has been vandalized by a protester for the third time since it was painted.
A black woman covered multiple letters of the bright yellow eyesore with multiple gallons of black paint while shouting “Refund the Police” and “Bill de Blasio doesn’t care about black people!”
The woman urged people to find Jesus while she worked, attempting to cover as much as she could before being detained and arrested.
The mural was also vandalized the previous day by four protesters who oppose the Marxist political message painted in the street by the mayor. The brave activists shouted “Blue Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter” as they painted over the city-approved vandalism.
Group of Trump supporters splattered blue paint onto BLM mural outside Trump Tower, saying "All Lives Matter" and "Blue Lives Matter". Four people were arrested.
— @SCOOTERCASTER (FNTV) (@ScooterCasterNY) July 17, 2020
Onlookers shouted at them hysterically as they did it.
NBC New York reports “the alleged vandals threw the paint in what appeared to be a coordinated effort involving about 10 people around 4 p.m. Friday. There were plans going around on social media with a group of people discussing doing the stunt.”
On Monday, the mural was splattered with red paint.
Unlike the rioters and looters that took over his city recently, he has made it a priority to arrest those who dare to vandalize it. In fact, Mayor de Blasio has seemingly been more concerned with protecting the tacky painting than about the rising crime in the city since he tied the hands of his police force.
De Blasio is planning to paint four more of the ridiculous murals throughout the city.
Following three churches being lit ablaze across the US over the weekend, a statue of the Virgin Mary honoring fallen WWII soldiers has been lit on fire in Massachusetts.
The statue at St. Peter Parish in Dorchester was found charred around 10 p.m. Saturday.
“Fire investigators say it appears someone set fire to plastic flowers that were in the hands of the statue, which caused the face and upper body of the statue to be burned,” NBC Boston reports. “The charred statue startled parishioners on Sunday, with one man saying he was ‘very disturbed’ by the incident.”
“This is ridiculous,” a woman added. “This needs to stop.”
St. Peter Parish’s Pastor Currie said he would like to help the person who did this and believes that they are a “troubled soul.”
“This is obviously someone disturbed, someone who has a lot of trouble, a troubled soul,” he said. “But I know our Lady in Heaven is looking down on the soul, or whoever it might’ve been, and saying, ‘I love you! If you need help, come get help. We’re here for you.'”
The Boston Police are asking anyone with information on the incident to contact them at 617-343-4335.