Posted on 08/09/2025 6:58:56 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Actor Jussie Smollett is making a return to television this fall, six years after an alleged 2019 hate crime scandal.
The 42-year-old actor will be joining the fourth season of the reality competition program "Special Forces: World's Toughest Test" alongside 17 other celebrities. The show puts the contestants through military-style special forces training, and the upcoming season will be set in Morocco, according to a press release from Fox.
Smollett will appear alongside other notable athletes, artists, and personalities, including married couples Eric Decker and Jessie James Decker -- a former NFL player and country music singer, respectively -- and former NFL player Andrew East and retired Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson East.
Model Chanel Iman, "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice and Giudice's daughter Gia will also be among the celebrity contestants.
Smollett previously starred as musician Jamal Lyon in the Fox drama "Empire" from 2015 until 2019.
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Alleged hate crime? WTF...no you mean after lying about a hate crime scandal.
Told you he wouldn’t go back to jail.
Guilty as sin, free as a bird.
He should have gone to prison with his buddies.
Special forces tv show?🤮
If he loses it will be because of two white men in MAGA hats who live is Juicy’s brain.
“You can’t hide
Your LYIN’ eyes!”
No thread concerning Jussie Smollett is complete without Chappelle’s take on him / the event.
https://youtu.be/wZXoErL2124?si=SzgCsCmOb04ogvbR
Arguably the funniest 5 minutes of comedy involving politics of the decade. Language warning.
How is the fake hate crimed “alleged”? He got caught.That moves it out of the alleged category.
🔝🔝
“A MAGA hat? See where Kanye West was last night.”
Oh... Its a “reality” TV series. Makes sense now. I thought maybe ABC was making a series about poofters that were really tough guys are something asinine like that.
“Are you that faggot n_____ from Empire?”
“A white person would never say that....It sounds like something *I* would say.”
He’s a convicted felon.
Can I place a bet about one of the crew tossing a Subway sandwich onto the set during a shoot?
...and he never answered for sending a terroristic threat through the U.S. mail.
They’re gonna make mincemeat out of him. He’s a wuss and the Special Forces instructors will tap him out first thing, I’m betting.
Why do these leftist idiots insist on humiliating themselves like that? Because their ego is so big, they lie to themselves about their “”capabilities””. That, and they need the $$$.
That bit never gets old. I've probably watched that clip 20 times, and I laugh again every time.
He's likely doing this because he needs a vehicle to make him look like a real man after he humiliated himself in court.
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