Lorde has this guy’s back.
Joe Irvine has been pinging around the internet after he was publicly humiliated on New Zealand’s X Factor by judges Natalia Kills and Willy Moon.
The two nasty judges criticised Irvine for having no originality or creative integrity. Natalia even went so far as to lash out at his hair and suit. Mature.
The video of the verbal beat-down went viral for all the right reasons: This kind of behaviour just isn’t acceptable.
Read more: The surprising comments that got two judges sacked from X Factor.
You can watch the whole nasty tirade here:
See? Just plain nasty.
And celebs seem to agree. NZ singer Lorde, in true lovely-person style, sent Irvine a batch of freshly made cupcakes that spell out the words “KEEP BEING JOE”, along with a supportive letter. Sweet.
But she wasn’t the only A-list to come to his defense.
Ed Sheeran joined the party with this tweet:
FIST PUMP.
Followed shortly by an outraged Ellie Goulding:
Both judges were fired from the show, effective immediately, and were spotted fleeing back to LA earlier this week.
If you could chose any celebrity to receive a tweet from, who would it be?
Top Comments
I don't understand all the outrage? It's not that I agree with the judges being so mean but isn't that the whole purpose of these shows to demean the contestants? I don't actually watch these shows but because they promo the life out of them, and they constantly run over time I've seen bits and pieces of them so I've seen Simon Cowell run people down and Kyle Sandilands etc. I don't grasp how these judges aren't saying anything that Simon Cowell et al hasn't said. Someone has the voice of am angel and Simon will tell them they were terrible. Oh and by the way it bugs me when people say he's just being honest and telling it like it is, when in fact he is being dishonest because you don't get on these shows if you are terrible, an actual honest comment would be along the lines of "you didn't give your best performance tonight."
I actually try to avoid these shows as much as possible because I've been bullied in my life and I feel enraged and upset when I see people like Simon Cowell bullying people and make millions out of it!
I've figured out that there are two types of people who watch these shows, people who enjoy the actual talent but overlook the bullying part of it or put up with it because they enjoy the actual performances, and in particular for young people they aren't aware that it is possible to have a show like this without nastiness because unlike older people like myself they have never seen niceness and kindness on TV, so even of it disturbs they think there is no other option. But I think the other type of people who enjoy these shows are sadists, you know the type of people a century ago who would have packed a picnic lunch to go see a public hanging, they get off on watching people being bullied.
So one hand I get why these program's are made because there is a proportion of people who are sadists who want the nastiness, and the rest of the audience are people who will put up with the nastiness because they enjoy the performance. So I get that these shows will rate well with many people.
But what I don't grasp is that why don't TV networks also make program's for the rest of the population, which is the sizeable part of the community who has been bullied or empathises with the victim. A lot of people are in these categories, and TV networks should have the sense to see that having a show that caters to people who want to see kindness on TV and in fact are traumatised by seeing bullying would also rate well. Yes continue to make the nasty stuff for the sadists, as there are a lot of sadists in the world so there is obviously a market for bullying shows, but have the good sense to realise that for every bully who gets off watching this stuff, there is a victim who is traumatised by the stuff and really is desperate to watch sonething showing kindness or showing the victim winning.
I just realise I am contradicting myself now but as someone who has been bullied I must say I would find it very cathartic to watch a show where everyone makes the bullies like Simon Cowell cry. But I know that isn't nice! But it would certainly be cathartic for the many of us who have been bullied in our life's.
What the?
A guy is publicly humiliated, you report on celebs giving support and then ask who would we like to receive a tweet from?
How about asking us what we would tweet to Joe?