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Not Funny Or Distinguished

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[Blind Gossip] You’ve seen this rotund celebrity on TV many times, either on his own show or as a guest on other people’s shows.

He has enjoyed a long run of accolades and awards, both inside and outside of his area of expertise.

Not so much any more. It took a while, but those assault accusations are finally catching up to him.

Not only are his former colleagues distancing themselves from him, but so are the institutions that formerly lauded him as a shining example of success.

The college he attended used to regularly cook up ways to honor him.

They made him a graduation speaker, and he used the time to boast about his drug use. Yes, in a graduation speech. They laughed it off.

They regularly featured him in their alumni magazine. So much fun to cover!

They even inducted him with great fanfare and multiple press releases into their Hall of Distinguished Alumni a couple of years ago.

That was apparently another half-baked idea.

He was just removed from the Hall. Guess they realized it’s not very funny or distinguished to celebrate alumni who drug and assault the women that work for them.

No press release for that little event.

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[Optional] Who is the most well-known alumni from your school?

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    • Ok so Batali seems to be the common theme. Enrico Colantoni went to my highschool (Veronica Mars, Flashpoint), he actually was in a play with my sister lol. I also worked with Stephen Amell before he became famous.

  11. Mario bat…..something

    The most famous person from my high school was this wannabe theater girl who wanted to be on boradway got a couple of distinguished theater awards and got married before she made it to Broadway.

  12. Batali, patron saint of frat boys and dear friend of Goop (the patron saint of shady lifestyle schemes).

    The brilliant, deeply weird director John Waters graduated from my high school, and former sportscaster Jim McKay (McManus) graduated from my university.

  15. Rutgers alum Mario Batali.
    Columbia grads like me are proud of 3 presidents, a bunch of nobel prize winners, and especially these days, massage afficianado Robert Kraft.

  17. No idea who the celebrity is but the most well-known alum from my high school is John Belushi. We had a huge mural on the wall of him and Dan Ackroyd as the Blues Brothers.

  18. Celebrity – Mario Batali.

    Most well known from High School – so many- Mike Tollin (directory/producer), Judy Toll (comedienne/actress/writer), Tom Veric a (actor/director), Michael Sembello (musician), and Randy Grossman (football player) just to name a few.

    College – I went to Temple University – it HAS to be Bill Cosby.

  20. This is Mario Batali. He was honored by Rutgers as a “Distinguished Alumni” and he was bought out of all his restaurants AND eataly. Which makes me happy cause eataly is great, but I could not go since he was profiting from it.

  32. Mario “Red menace” Batali!
    Unfortunately he is a fellow alumni from my school, but thankfully these wonders outshine his disgusting *:

    -James Gandolfini (Respect, RIP)
    -Kristen Davis
    -Elizabeth Warren
    -Jane Krakowski
    – Yours truly ❤️

  34. Mario Batali. For the life of me, I don’t understand why women put up with it unless they considered it part of the price for success. By the way, I’m a woman who wouldn’t.

  42. This is just a guess but Mario Batali and Rutgers University.
    No celebrities I know of but attended Bowling Green State University for a brief stint and James Baldwin taught writing there at the time. I was just entranced seeing him in the cafeteria.
    Jamie Farr and Danny Thomas grew up a couple of blocks from where I lived in Toledo, but not at the same time.

  46. Mario Batali. His restaurant partner just completely bought him out so he will no longer be associated with the restaurants.

    I went to the University of Miami, so there are TONS of famous sports people. . . .

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