Post by Admin on May 26, 2019 9:35:45 GMT -4
They dated back in the 90's and once they thought they would be together forever, but it never came to be.
Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson back when.
Of course Teddy didn't help when he was doing a roast and wore black face he did get that blacklash for doing that. But I think Whoopi didn't find it to be so bad.
Back in 1993, when Danson was dating his Made In America co-star Whoopi Goldberg, he appeared at N.Y. Friars Club Roast in blackface and performed a raunchy, n-word filled routine that offended many in attendance.
“I was confused as to whether or not I was at a Friars event or at a rally for the KKK and Aryan Nation,” talk show host Montel Williams said at the time.
New York City’s first and so far only African-American mayor David Dinkins was also in attendance and was not amused. He said the jokes Danson made “were pretty vulgar and many were way, way over the line.”
However others in attendance, such as model and fashion icon Beverly Johnson, defended the TV star.
“If you can’t see the humor at a place where there’s supposed to be over-the-line jokes, then there’s something really wrong,” she told the New York Daily News.
Goldberg later took responsibility for the act and admitted that she had written Danson’s off-color material. Their relationship ended not long after the controversy subsided.
Ironically, the 20th anniversary of this public relations debacle coincides with a recent spate of blackface-related controversies.
Of course they met while making the movie Made In America.
