Leslie Jones Has Moved on From Milo Yiannopoulos: ‘I Was Done the Day I Blocked Him’
“He has no space here!” tweets the “Saturday Night Live” star months after getting the right-wing provocateur banned from Twitter
Nigel M. Smith | February 21, 2017 @ 7:27 AM
Last Updated: February 21, 2017 @ 12:18 PM
Leslie Jones was nonplussed by Monday’s flurry of news concerning Milo Yiannopoulos.
“You guys are giving him too much energy,” the “Ghostbusters” star tweeted about the Breitbart editor who had publicly antagonized her via social media last summer to the point that Twitter deleted his account.
“I was done the day I blocked him & got his ass banned,” she wrote. “Been done and moved on. He has no space here!”
Jones’ tweet arrived hours after Simon & Schuster shelved “Dangerous,” its planned book by Yiannopoulos, and the Conservative Political Action Conference formally rescinded an invite to the Breitbart News editor to speak at the conference.
Both decisions came in the wake of a video that surfaced on Sunday showing Yiannopoulos saying that some relationships between adults and 13-year-olds are consensual. The conservative firebrand, who is gay, also joked that being molested had made him good at oral sex.
Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter last July after he targeted Jones online when “Ghosbusters” was released. Jones received an onslaught of racist tweets as a result of Yiannopoulos taking her on.
On his Friday night appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Yiannopoulos defended his treatment of Jones: “I wrote a bad review of the movie. I said she look like a dude; she does. I said she’s barely literate; she is. And I simply don’t accept that the star of a Hollywood blockbuster is sitting in a Hollywood mansion crying over mean words on the internet. Get over it. Mean words on the internet don’t hurt anyone.”
See Jones’ tweet below:
You guys are giving him to much energy. I was done the day I blocked him & got his ass banned. Been done and moved on. He has no space here!
The hacking of "Ghostbusters" star Leslie Jones was a cruel low point in a career that has lately been all about successes. But Jones wasn't an overnight success. Here's a look at her career.
Funniest Person at Colorado State When Jones was 19, a friend entered her into a "Funniest Person on Campus" contest -- and she won. According to People, Jones left school to pursue comedy after winning.
Stand-Up Career In 1987, Jones had her first professional gig. She opened up for Jamie Foxx -- and bombed.
"Problem Child" In 2010, Jones released her first stand-up DVD. The hour-long show, which was taped in front of a live audience, received a 77 percent audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
No Black Comedians on "SNL" In 2013, SNL cast member, Kenan Thompson, said that the show didn't have any black women in the cast because in auditions they couldn't "find ones that are ready." Jones fired back: "There’s motherf—in’ three bitches I can call right now, goddammit, that will fill that spot."
"Saturday Night Live" In 2014, Jones joined the show. When she first auditioned in 2013, she was initially selected to be a writer.
"Top Five" Jones had a small part in Chris Rock's "Top Five," in which a few comedians hurl insults at each other. “That was the best scene in the movie, and Leslie was the best part of it,” Rock told the New Yorker.
"Ghostbusters" Jones starred in the all-female remake of the classic 1984 film. The announcement of the comedy was met with sexist comments criticizing the film for casting all women.
Milo Yiannopoulos Review A review by Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos criticized Jones' character for having “flat-as-a-pancake black stylings.” He was later banned from Twitter.
Twitter Attacks After the review, Twitter users began attacking the comedian with racist tweets. “OK, I have been called Apes, sent pics of their asses, even got a pic with semen on my face. I’m tryin to figure out what human means. I’m out,” wrote Jones.
Twitter Exit Following the slew of racist attacks, the comedian decided to leave the social media platform on July 18.
Twitter Comeback On July 21, Jones returned to Twitter.
Olympic Twitter Correspondant Jones' Twitter commentary landed her in Rio. NBC invited her to join their Olympics team and help cover the games.
Hacked This week, hackers took over the comedian's personal Tumblr website and posted nude photos, images of her passport and ID as well as her phone number and password to her Twitter account.
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How the “SNL” and “Ghostbusters” actress became a star
The hacking of "Ghostbusters" star Leslie Jones was a cruel low point in a career that has lately been all about successes. But Jones wasn't an overnight success. Here's a look at her career.
