Billy Porter Selling New York Home
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Financial woes as a result of the Hollywood writers strike coupled with a divorce now have Billy Porter now selling his New York home for $2.5 million. Recently, Billy Porter and Taraji P. Henson bother cried out loud about their ongoing ability to pay their bills. Though they were crying out for different reasons, why should and would everyday working class people feel sad for people who can't afford to maintain million dollar lifestyles, when the average American salary in the last quarter of 2023 was $59,384?
#billyporter #tarajiphenson #realestate
Moral of the story: "Stop living ABOVE your means." I agree 100% with ALL that Funky D. said.
AMEN!!!
Billy got a divorce and that probably took some of his money as well.
You are absolutely correct!! Watch some celebrities get mad for this TRUTH!! Some celebrities cannot keep up with the jones!!
Once upon a time they could. My take on it is make sure you’re always working.
@@sonyastephens1632it probably did, but I feel like that doesn’t negate Funky’s point. Billy should’ve downsized and shutup.
7 years ago I was approved for a 280K loan. I found a renovated foreclosure for 160K. Home is currently worth $290K.
What state do you live in? I'm in CA and envious of that home price. Congrats 🍾
Same. I bought my home for $165 in the Dallas area five years ago and its worth about the same. Actually it was sturdier than some of the newer homes I looked at and the street was lined with mature trees which sold me. I'm putting my own touches on it year by year and I don't think I'll ever sell it.
AWESOME - YOU DID THE RIGHT THING. ✅️
That was so wise. I would rather buy a completely renovated home than a brand new home.
You are a smart person, well done.
Rich people problem. He'll survive.
💯💯💯
Straight to the point
precisely he"ll be aaiii
Ryte isn’t like he going on welfare or ssi or needing a food box living in low income housing or da projects he got celeb friends they’ll let em sleep on they couch he shouldn’t got that expensive house should have paid cash for something 500k or 300k n been kool a regular gated community right
Stop buying weave… lip gloss.. heels…& nails..!!!
Close your mouth - & get your bottom teeth fixed……. jes hush.!!
I got approved for $330K for a house, and bought my home for $267K because even $300K wasn't comfortably within my means. It's just me, just like it's Billy. Rich or not... you don't need a $2M house if you can't comfortably afford it.
Simple mathematics
They think they need to have mansions just because they live in Hollywood
👏 Are you in the Midwest? That’s about the prices here in Ohio. Hopefully, I am NEXT
Same here. I bought a house for way less than what the bank said I was approved for. My goal is to make sure I’m comfortable.
@@Ryan-yw8iz I'm in central Florida.
Same here in Cali.
Jackie Clark (The Clark Sisters) has always maintained her job as a nurse.
Yup she sure has
Wowww smart lady
Extra ain’t never hurt nobody!!! Take those checks and stack them up…
She needed to. She can't sing that well out of all of them.
@@desireecase7870i almost choked on my sandwich 😂
20 yrs ago as a single parent I bought a 107k house in a middle class neighborhood when I could have easily afforded a nicer area. Now I’m divorced, an empty nester and living comfortably because of that one decision and that 107k house is now worth 300K! Always live BELOW your means!
Preach to us please and Congrats to you!!🙌🏽
☝🏽😌 Ummm Chile!! 🫵🏽 Better!!! 🙃 #Tell_IT_LikeIT_TI_Is 😉🤌🏽🤭
So happy for you!
Couldn't have said it better!
Same here. Almost 25 years ago I purchased a $70,000 condo to be close to an elderly relative who I had to put in an assisted living facility. I was approved for over twice that. But I did not want to be a slave to a mortgage note. That relative passed away the weekend I closed on the condo. Today, that condo is paid off; early I may add. The money saved was invested in the stock market and 401K. Today, my condo is worth north of $300,000.
I 200% AGREE! He is not saying anything wrong!
I said the same thing, downsize. That’s what us “regular” people have to do. I also understand the pride of not wanting to be a celebrity living amongst commoners. You wanna be with your peers, but the peers ain’t paying your bills. Do what you gotta do. Even when they downsize, they’re still in GREAT communities that most of us can’t afford 🤷🏽♀️
Hell a whole lot of his peers have had to downsize
Exactly!!!!!
The issue is money mismanagement, at any pay scale, if you can't manage your funds, you will be struggling.... you can't be on IG twirling in designer clothes and then cry about you can't pay your bills. Are you living for approval or living in reality. As a "regular" working American, as I moved up the ladder and started making more money, I always kept the principles and money management skills I had when I had limited funds. I live within my means period!!!!
Billy do have some fly ass outfits
Exactly, I have a lot of sympathy for people who are struggling. But when you make millions upon millions of dollars. And now you can’t pay your bills. It’s kinda hard to feel empathy. Like why didn’t you just bought land. And just build the house somewhere. He has been in the game long enough. Back then property was way affordable than it is now. He wouldn’t have to be worrying about paying mortgage. And he would had a place to live. Because it’s his own. I think folks don’t ever think about the future. They always live in the moment. These days in time you can’t live for the moment.
Priceless and Wise
Exactly!
Yall please don’t take what I’m about to say offensively bcuz that’s not the place my heart has ever been in…but see Billy thought that bcuz he caught that “the gays are hott right now trend” that he was smooth sailing but what he forgot is baby you’re BLACK first AND gay!! They have no problem with snatching that bag and red carpet right up from under you!! Same for Taraji, sometimes we forget that they love our rhythm but hate our blues and could care less about it and expect us to just be glad to have a seat at the table so I agree with Funky 1000%!! We as Black folks know how to survive off of much less so they should’ve known better especially at their big grown ages!! 😢
while your opinion may be true- Not appropriate right now
@@darryls2141when would it be appropriate? At what time? Why not now?
I completely agree with you. It’s similar to Lizzo and the Body Positivity Movement. It was “all the rage” until those leading the charge starting unfortunately passing away before 40 and Ozempic began to dominate Hollyweird. Lizzo is hella talented and still got left behind. 😕
timing is everything. be WISE. don't always jump on the bandwagon. Gather ALL of the facts, then share and advise- @@foxtrot685
I hope things look up for Billy Porter because he has been doing the damn Thang for years.
I still have sympathy and empathy for ANYONE struggling in todays economy.
thank you......I am still struggling at my age....more experience more education than my white coworkers
@@FranBenjamin-lc9ukI genuinely hope things can get better for you!
Big facts@@FranBenjamin-lc9uk
They're like a person riding a bike and placing a stick in the spokes 😂They caused their own pain.
Me too. Circumstances can change at any moment. I will always have a heart for those struggling regardless of their salary.
I have no empathy for these people. I was able to go to work full time parent full time school full time no help no government assistance. I was able to buy a home after saving for 15 yrs. Graduated now living comfortably and paid that same house off in 2019. I made sure to set my daughter up to have no financial struggles and she is able to just be a kid. I remember not having it as a kid and I said my child will never feel less than through me making bad choices or not budgeting right. This is before she was even a thought. She’s 7 and I even have her college fund setup and it’s hefty.
Great moves, doing better so she can have best, and she can pass down the generational wealth through her, that's what we are supposed to do as a parent. Thank you so much.
Im proud of you
The writers strike messed a lot of niche stars financially. Porter is a niche actor, similar to what you’re calling gig worker not to say that you’re wrong about what you said but I think that divorce coupled with the strike really did him in
100%
Right. That along with still recovering from the pandemic.
What divorce? He was married?
When you know you a gig worker, you have to know a gig can get dried up like a raisin in the sun.
Billy should have had his talking ass a podcast. I would have loved it.
I remember Clarence William III being asked was he going to move to get a fancy house and buy a new car since he was on the 1960s TV show, Mod Squad. He said no. You’ve got to save your money in this business. He continued to drive the same car. Smart man!
Vivica said her home cost her 4 mill only house she's ever had small and cozy i stand with her work ethics because she's been smart all these years and still going.
a small and cozy $4 million house....
And she has other means of income.
@@jennifernabrahamable her words not mines
@@jennifernabrahamableIt depends on the location. A regular 3BR/2BA house with a small yard in California could easily be $800K-$1MIL. And that’s a home that’s not even updated. Location is everything.
Yes! Not only that, she created opportunities for herself once Hollywood stopped calling. She is not waiting for a seat at the table, she created her own table.
You betta preach Funky!
Billy Porter is getting his Karma back as far as I'm concerned, I had the dishonor of meeting him and spending a little time with him, he's not right...Months after his mistreatment of me his husband filed for divorce and his finances flopped. Hopefully this humbles him. Also, He needs to downsize on his fancy dresses as well.
He can sell them on EBay, lol
You just made it make sense. Thank you
Yes he did❤
👏🏽👏🏽thank you Q! Miss us with the “woe as me” when you are in the top 1% Earning more than 98% of Americans. 🤷🏽♀️
Thank you!
Billy Porter is not, nor has he ever been in the top 1%
the top 1% is $800,000 a year. His entire salary for the full series of Pose, was barely a little more than $800,000
I love you and we've talked about this. As a friend to you both, I'll say that most people in America would lose their living situation if their work was unexpectedly taken away from them for over 4 months. The industry doesn't also start back up the day the strike is over, mix that with the fact that we just came out of a pandemic and he is currently going through a messy public divorce, not to mention his mom just died 5 days ago. I think it would knock anyone off their feet financially. He's also not asking for anyone to feel sorry for him, more so just voicing something that a lot of celebrities are dealing with. Most people aren't prepared to withstand all three of those things back to back. If we unexpectedly took 3/4 months of pay from everyone in this comment section they too might have to move and downsize, which by the way is what he's already doing by selling his house. I took his interview as a statement to say "I'm not afraid to say what a lot of celebrities are going through because there is an unspoken pressure for people to pretend that they're financially ok when they're not." I personally think it was brave of him to say what was really going on in his life and to share the struggle with us because some people don't believe that celebrities struggle. I understand all the comments, and I used to have the EXACT same outlook BUT like most things...you will never truly know how you would react or what you'd do in a situation unless you've walked a mile in that persons shoes. Love you tons, just wanted to offer you my perspective! Also, I'm in Florida this week and we need to meet up! K bye
And I guess this is where I have to disagree with you yet because as a celebrity and as an artist who makes sometimes five times as much as somebody will make in a lifetime why is it that celebrities never own their property? Normally it's by our own hand that we caused the pain and the heartache in our lives. I understand your statement of you don't understand if you never been there but see you've been downtrodden before. So why would you get money and then live above those means and don't have a savings don't have any investments don't have any other form of income even regular people are learning how to have additional ways to have residual income. And I understand that he didn't ask for us to have any type of sympathy for him. However it does show that the majority of celebrities are living above their means and they're doing it for who? And I'm sick of people saying it's for social media because I know lots of celebrities who don't live these lavish lifestyle like this they live in a nice home nice things but these four million 7 million 27 million homes with 27 pools and 18 bathroom and 10 bedrooms it's ridiculous for a normal person. IMO
@Seeing_it_as_it_is yes exactly. I sympathize with anyone famous or not, but what I'm noticing is that a lot of celebrities are stunting. They are not getting paid much, but still taking the jobs and in some cases working for free by doing marketing promotions and then complain about the pay. Financial planning is available in books, and homes need to be bought outright, but I also do understand that life situations can cause anyone to have to sell assets.
Amen.
SPEAK, @MissFunkyDineva!
Billy is living ABOVE his means like most of us. Currently working to pay ALL of my debt off as we speak.
Financial literacy, Independence, and freedom are my goals in 2024 AND 2025.
Billy Porter is a man of many talents. Teach workshops and master classes. Podcast, CZcams, real estate, heck vending machine business. He knows how to hustle… just need to be reminded.
You betta preach Funky!!
Plus, Billy Porter husband used to own an Optical lens store that sold glasses and sunglasses and were high as hell.
I truly, believe the business never did well and Billy probably paid his commercial rent up to keep it opened!
You’re right, I’m not feeling sorry for You.
True facts!! I still do side hustles and keep extra in the bank! Not so in love with property that I would go broke trying to keep it!
Kendrick Lemar bought his house for like 500k and bought his sister a corolla and paid for her college.
To be fair, these people are not saying their inability pay their bills is identical to the struggles the average person has. I think it's awesome that they are showing the public that all that glitters is not gold. Kudos to Billy for realizing he has to downsize. Some people are too proud to make that step.
Aka kim and troy living above their means
@@neakxo Great example. They can no longer afford the lifestyle they had, but are too proud to acknowledge that and act on it.
@@neakxo Kim and Kroy are so ghetto. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@joyell821waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay past ghetto. Lol 😂 😂
No lies told!!!!
Exactly Funky❤ that’s why I fuck with you. You’re so real❤ because I live “paycheck to paycheck “
Facts!!!!
@@pamgreen9248 you feel me, I always say they give the wrong people money. Because a average person like me would get a beautiful modest home and go from there. I don’t need a 99 million dollar house ever.
Ever❤️❤️💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
As a banker, I generally advised clients to save three to six months worth of expenses in an emergency fund. It looks like Billy did that, but it wasn’t enough.
Luckily, Billy is in a position to downsize his lifestyle. Us everyday people don’t have that same advantage. If we downsize, we’re going to be homeless 😩
I really think 🤔 folks should have 12 months of gross salary just in case.
@@saritamoorebansa4485 the more the better, for sure! It’s important to set realistic goals. I don’t even see 401K balances worth that much. I do believe that people should always save, even after they’ve meet whatever goal they have.
@@saritamoorebansa4485 the more the better! I like to set realistic goals. I don’t even see 401K’s that large. I definitely think that people should always save, regardless if the goal is met or not.
Hey Funky!!!! Congrats on all ur success!!! Love U
When you're grateful for having what you have and not trying to keep up with the Jones as the older folks says....the peace and thankfulness to God to let you have the mindset of just loving and taking care of the finer things in life is you waking up each day! 🙏❤️🥰
I love you Funky D!🥰🥰
I heard Normani been driving Uber and stuff. She probably doesn't have to, but it keeps you honest to keep busy while you are working. Hell, I work a 9-5 and got other stuff going on all are creative outlets running in the background or when I clock out. Even after I can quit, I will always maintain my licenses so in the even I get in a tight, I can go to work. That's to beauty of it for common folks. Billy could had took that house money and got a Popeye's somewhere popping and had money coming in from somewhere when the strike was on, cause that happens from time to time.
100% agree
Live within your means. I agree with Q. He has been in the game that long and don’t know how to build wealth or maintain his income stream when he knows how it is in Hollywood. Whether there is a strike or not there is still always a new and upcoming person, there was no guarantee he would still get bookings.
I hate to be a celebrity. The same people who criticize you for not having it will also criticize for having it and can’t afford to maintain it.
Yessssss
But he right though and another celebrities forget where they come from when they come up
FACTS!!!!!
Mmmm hmmm
And criticize you for losing it when things take a downturn.
Funky, you dropping wisdom/commonsense, sir!! I agree 300% with you!!!!
Sir, this was one of your best commentaries. Stars and regulars 9-5 people ( like me) need to listen to your financial savvy message. I work hard ( two jobs corporate and retail ) But I’m a saver and investor… ( parents too). I have friends who cruised every single year for last 10 years, now worried 😟 what to live on after they retire in 3-5 years… I suggested why not expensive vacation every other or two years, go cheap places on the off years, save up for expensive trips, pay off debt in the “off” years and save & invest your money( pay off your house/ pay off student loans/max out 401k/IRA 0:36 …etc ) Now folks are really scared. 😱
I’ll be 27 next month and im looking to “retire” at 40 or 42 so I’ve been sitting down trying to get my things in order. I’ve made financial mistakes in the past, but I’m working to finish clearing it up since I have a better job now(truck driver) and will be launching a few businesses with my sister in the next 2 years (waiting on trademark approval and more funding). I just opened up a high yield savings account for starters and purchased a new car(used 2020) I do not want to be left looking crazy because I did not prepare financially I’m also in school to get a chemistry and possibly biology degree so I’ll always have something to fall back on if needed. I never want to live above my salary to the point I can’t comfortably live for at least 4 years without income if necessary.
@@beautyandabeat8678That’s awesome!!! Best of luck to you, sis 💕
Some ppl are prideful & lack financial creativity. A house like that can easily be a corporate event and/or luxury vacation rental.
Preach, he could do HIV functions and events there also as well as speaking on many other issues. He's too talented and too popular to be having these issues. The same with Taraji. She should have been producing and teaching acting.
As a realtor in California, I even told them in email too his publicist stating that I could get him into a community here in California for under $400,000 in a gated community here in Palm Springs no response of course
Woah really? That's a freaking deal considering how expensive Cali is. Is that offer still available?
I remember hearing something about that during the writers strike. The strike knocked a lot of “newly famous” actors off their block. They haven’t been working long enough to not be able to work for long stints and still live the “lifestyle they’ve become accustomed to” totally agree with you Q!
Thank you for speaking the truth.
Why did he not save some money. Looks how he dresses money. Funky you are so smart. Some people make excuses for the wild spending. I am with you Funky.
You Yall don't realize it other people they have to pay its a whole team behind these folks. Now all of them are getting millions
I totally agree with you!!!! This is how we feel period!! Live with in your means!
1000% Agree, couldn't say it better myself. Love you Dineva!
Billy oughta know better, he knows about having "F.U. money," and also KNOWS the lifestyle of Broadway. The coins ain't always gonna be there. Until your money is making money?...Buying a 2.5 million dollar home in Westport aint it!
No matter how much you earn, you must have a lifestyle well within those means. Especially if the way you make your money carries high risk. These interest rates will flush out a lot of people. A 3 million dollar home at 6/7% interest is not a joke when money starts getting funny and the property is worth less than you bought it. There's much to be said for a simple life. Food and shelter is all we really need, everything else is extra.
This rant should not have included Taraji. Inequality in pay is absolutely separate from living above one’s means…..
I agree. Also she never said she was being foreclosed on or had to sell her home.
Some people really do assume that Taraji is living above her means, the way she is complaining about Pay. I wish the best for everybody though.
She's complaining about pay inequality because she spoke about her bills of what's left after checks. If she's complaining about pay, then you get another job and go to work. Simple. Until she gets the pay she wants, it's good to reduce unnecessary costs of living. Spending a month in Bali on a retreat isn't necessary on your own dime. But again it's rich people problems
It relates to him not everyday people.
Thats not what he meant . She should be included because she is living above her means..no matter what your financial situation is you should have enough management skills for the good times and bad. In the interim fight for what's yours but putting it out there you can't pay your bills is just not cool.
Truth! I'm an Actor and I have a 9-5. I refuse to be stressed and broke. I audition and go to work like everyone else. I left NY because I'd rather be home with my family in an affordable area where i can get a good job and still act. Than be struggling to find work and live while being a struggling actor as well. Too much stress.
Loving above his means
I agree with you Funky. Alfre Woodard has owned the same house since the early 80s, she said as actors your work is unpredictable so live modest.
Right on!
YOU BETTA PREACH Q
You are completely right about everything you said. You have to live within your means, no matter your socioeconomic status. I have a heart, but there is only so much empathy I can have for a very privileged group of people.
Speak on it Q!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Preach preach I'm with you when your right.
I was approached for 280k for a house. I bought a townhome for 130k with 3 rooms and 2.5 bathrooms in the pandemic and now the value is almost the price of my approval loan. These people trying to live above their means to prove things to people who don’t matter. It will hurt you in the long run.
What I do not understand about Billy is he is a classically trained, highly educated creative. Why can't he teach at a university or take other avenues to generate income? Everyone from Phylicia Rashad (who was even in admin) to Philip Michael Thomas have taught at reputable universities. Esperanza Spalding teaches, famous background vocalist Oren Waters, Christian Vincent from Noah's Arc ... it goes on and on. These people use their extensive backgrounds as another source of income. I like Billy but he gives me Andre Leon Talley vibes - I think he was living above his means cause as Funky said, one strike is not gonna cause you to lose a house. There is more to it than that.
Some people think they’ll be judged if seen working a normal 9-5 job but if he’s highly skilled and educated it should be no reason why he can’t look into becoming a professor at somewhere like idk Howard or another university.
Fani's Daddy, John Floyd just reminded us to have 6 months of expenses in cash.💸🕊️
💯 funky right. I'm a 911 dispatcher... my job is to literally save lives and alllll of us live check to check. We can't keep up with inflation or this economy. When our city feels like we are shit and are worthless the fight to even get more money is a hassle. The solution to this is us regular folks work two jobs.. we live at home and we make it work. Billy and all these other celebs really do need to stop living above your means. I wish I took home what they take home in a yr.. I don't come close to it. If you can't make it work with a million a year despite what expenditures you might have then something is wrong. So billy my heart goes out to you but right now all I hear is the small violin cause MY folks are out here struggling with far less and making it work.
I agree about the gig work. If the millions are irregular, long term savings is a must.
I Agree 💯
Amen always giving praise to the man upstairs
Preach Funky, Preach and let the church say amen!!
Agreed 💯 Funky D
People have to learn not to hang their baskets higher than necessary....
Single ppl living priced out lifestyle...
$2.5M could be trimmed to $1M and save $1.5...😮😢
No sympathy 😮
I totally agree!!!! When this story first broke last yr, I was like, "Now Billy!!!" Ain't no way you should be broke with all the years you've put in and after few months of not working. Cause what were you doing prior to the strike 🤔
They wasn't getting paid
They got too comfortable 🤷🏾♀️‼️
And you’re definitely right Funky 👏🏾
Girrrrrl that part. Working for that long that brownstone/house should have been paid in full
Hey, you are speaking 🗣️ THE REAL TRUTH! 😉
Here again, Funky, I love you, and your channel and I am glad to have you back on your channel regularly. I do have a love/hate relationship with some of your opinions, but this right here, Amen to everything you said. I agree with you 100%.
100% I agree. It was Taraji looking down on Embassy Suites for me, like uh uh!
I love you Funky!!!! I feel like you are a kin to me in my head!!!!!
Remember the guy from the Cosby show who was working at Trader Joe's? Some people had mean things to say, he said he needed to take care of myself and family. You do what you have to.
I was a publicist and I always had more money than my celebrity clients
you know when these people sign these contracts, they know what they sign up for. Now when you go buy all this stuff, then get it paid up front. No mortgages, no leasing cars, no renting. Then that way when the cash dries up, you have no worries and do not have to blame every one and their mother for not being able to eat, pay bills, paying a mortgage. I just do not understand why some celebrities mess up their money.
Elvin from the Cosby show went to work @ Trader Joes. Young Joc drove for Uber. Hell before I became a nurse i held a sign up in front of a pawn shop advertising free jewelry...Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to survive!
Very. Well. Said!
Now, they tried to clown Alvin from the Cosby show working at a grocery store. That man was not ashamed to get out there and do what he had to do. It was an honest living.
Sure nuff
You said it Funky!!! Totally agree with you
“It ain’t nothing like paying all your bills and looking in your bank account and still seeing money” i have been resonating on that….. SO Tr ue!!! 6:41
Some of y'all missed the entire point of what he was saying. He included Taraji because no one feels bad for you if you can't pay for your expensive bills. He talked about Helen because she WORKED. she didn't wait for the next gig so all her bills were taken care of by common jobs. Yes pay inequalities exist but what are you going to do in the meantime in between time?
Agreed. If you wait on others , you will starve
and homeless for sure
Im in CA. We bought the house below what we were approved. EVERY time I get a bonus at work, I make a PRINCIPLE ONLY extra mortgage payment. Its been YEARS since i paid only the minimal on the few credit cards i do have. (that usually stay at ZERO 80% of the time anyway- except for Home Depot of course LOL!)
It is interesting how folks were mocking Vivica A. Fox's hustle and "I'm good," thinking that she was implicitly criticizing Taraji P. Henson. But Vivica discerned the shift in her life and career and started producing with Lifetime and Tubi. Lastly, you also don't see Vivica crying on the internet about pay. Great video.
I think Billy was so use to having his husband pay the bills when he wasn’t working.
Was his husband an actor too? I assumed he took care of his husband. What does he do for living?
@@schail he got a male swim wear line n an eye glass company
So well said.
You went TF off on the thang! 😂
Praise God I love it peace and blessing be upon you 🙏🙏❤️
I think we need to be careful about how much lack of empathy and criticism we extend to people with more money who run into hard times. We often resort to telling people to downsize or to plan ahead for rainy days and have cushions, but that still only goes but so far. Where is the line between having a financial cushion for risks and also enjoying the fruits of your labor? Don’t get me wrong, there are some rich folks that need a change in perception of realities, but at the same time, we need to be cautious with how we don’t extend empathy just because we don’t have it as good as someone else. Those of us that live regular lives in moderate homes can also lose our jobs and homes. Would we want someone poor saying “I don’t feel sorry for you, I don’t have a home. You’re better off than me, so I don’t feel bad for you?” Also, do we want people with money criticizing people who are not as well as saying “I don’t feel bad that you don’t have a home or a job, you shoulda did (so and so and so)?”
And also keeping it real, how many regular folk would NOT complain also if they had to adjust their lifestyle DOWNWARD if circumstances changed? No one is just going to roll over and not have any complaints or grievances. It’s not totally fair to expect people who are a little more well off to not complain when they have a downturn, especially if they legitimately earned those fruits of their labor.
say it plainly niece! All of this. May I also add that the writer's strike had a larger impact on the names, and faces, most would never know. Although major productions were impacted actors like porter are niche actors. He has been the token "black flamboyant gay male" and honestly many of us are tired of the caricature. I would argue that his financial situation is a combination of the divorce, living high off the hog and then lastly the strike.
YOU live from paycheck to paycheck.. Most people don't
Sweetie, I don’t live paycheck from paycheck WHATSOEVER!
I don’t care what your income is, most of us are 3 months (90 days) from losing it all. When Nene gets a job to pay her bills then you berate her. Now it’s get a job, make up your mind.
I saw Nene on a commercial for a Lifetime movie. I love that for her 🍿❤
Completely different context.
Nene is the one who acted like her shit didn't stink and she was too good for a Bravo check
@@WenNRomeYou must think your shit doesn't stink either
@@hoodboyzAtl I’m not going to have an ego and look down on the platform that made me a household name….Nene isn’t humble
I agree with your view. Place I worked screwed us out of retirement making us work extra 5 years to collect pension.
Marla Gibbs was on a national TV show and still clocked in to work at the airport
I have to agree with you!!! Thanks for sharing the information with us, didn’t know that’s what was going on with Billy Potter and Miss Henson. They need to get their minds together!
That’s your accountant brain working Q. I’ve come to realize over time that financial management REALLY is a skill that many ppl lack. There are people that have mastered MAKING money, there are people that have mastered managing it, and there are people that can do both. 🤷🏽♀️
Now I have to say, I don't normally agree with Funky on much. BUT baby he hit the nail on the head, knocked it out of the park, spoke pure facts and told NO LIES!!!! Thank you Funky!!!!
That’s why Vivica Fox said what she said
You are absolutely correct. They live beyond their means.
That’s how I feel about spending my coins on overpriced handbags. The same shit you carry in a Birkin is the same as what goes in a coach bag🤷🏾♀️
I WOULD'VE PAID CASH FOR MY HOME WHILE I HAD THE MONEY. PUT SOME MONEY UP YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN. I'M WITH YOU FUNKY ❤
What's amazing to me is "NO ONE" says this about other ethnicities. But when it comes to BP, especially BW, it's STFU and work and be proud of what you have! I GAURANTEE if it was Idris Alba, Denzel, or Meryl Streep, or Anne Hathaway, it would be a WHOLE different song. Living above your means and INEQUALITY are 2 different things! STOP!
So is it about ethnicities or star quality? lol the point remains...
I agree completely my friend. Tell it!! Say that!! That part!!😊
Live within your means, especially in the entertainment industry. The entertainment industry is fickle and not consistent enough to not live within your means...
Well said sir.