BET is following the MTV formula, thanks to Viacom, and when all else fails… Add a reality TV show. BET’s newest reality venture, “Harlem Heights,” is a show following eight of New York’s young professionals chasing success.
One of the cast member is Kanye West’s ex, Brooke Crittendon, who is clearly using the relationship despite not naming him specifically.
“I was involved with a very famous rapper for a number of years,” she said. “And I worked in the news and documentary department (at MTV). So a lot of our pop news involved myself. But because I sort of played the background to the person that I was dating, I had to go through people saying things about me or just sort of assuming who I was… I just was like, “I just want to let people know what I really am and what I really do. I’m not just this person’s girlfriend.”
A reporter (who doesn’t watch much MTV, apparently) asked the natural follow-up: who’s the famous rapper?”Part of my personal journey beyond actually wrapping the show is to not mention that person,” she replied, “because if I’m trying to get from under the shadow of being that person’s girlfriend, I feel like to constantly drop their name and that association is sort of saying, “Hey, I don’t want you to think I’m just that, but I did used to date this really cool person.” You know what I mean?” SOURCE
Umm, maybe it’s just me but if she really wanted to not be seen as just “Kanye’s ex” then she need not bring up the relationship at all… Come on.
“Harlem Heights” will premiere March 2nd on BET.
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