Scientology clown Joy Villa got glowing press again, and here’s what it left out
By Tony Ortega | January 27, 2020
"Helping out a designer friend who had a conservative bent, Joy this time showed up at the 2017 Grammys red carpet with another eye-catching dress, but this one exploded in the media. The Trump dress made Joy an overnight sensation, and even propelled huge sales (for a few days anyway) of her musical dreck.
She rose so high so fast, there was even talk that she would make a run at Congress, something the president himself seemed to endorse in a tweet. But as
Joy’s former manager explained to us, her loyalty to Scientology had a tendency to ruin things he tried to set up for her. As her MAGA contacts began to turn on her (Milo Yiannopoulos) or faced prison (Roger Stone), her prospects for real political advancement seemed to diminish. She took down her Congressional exploratory website. But she continues to make appearances in conservative media, she parted ways with Overgaard, and at least she still has the Grammys to give her an annual boost.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Ingrid Schmidt
had the most thorough story yesterday about Joy’s Grammys dresses since her big splash — the 2018 anti-abortion statement with a fetus painted on a white dress, the nutty 2019 number that was supposed to represent Trump’s wall, and last night’s “Impeached and Re-Elected” frock.
In the article, Joy said she was going “back” to movie making (referring apparently, to her work as an extra where, for example, you can see her for a split second in an episode of
Californication). But she made an interesting admission. In her film project
The Contrast, which she is executive producing, she had some trouble attracting some actual, you know, real actors.
“We had multiple people turn down a co-starring role, with paid money, because they did not want to work with me,” she said.
Yeah, sorry about that, Joy. This website has a pretty strong Hollywood readership, and for that we are very grateful."
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