Milo Yiannopoulos has resigned from Yeezy as chief of employees (Getty)
Controversial ‘ex-gay’ right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has stepped down because the chief of employees of Kanye West’s attire model, Yeezy.
In line with TMZ, Yiannopoulos is ready to half methods with the model after the rapper, and equally controversial determine, who modified his title to Ye, introduced that the corporate was “planning to launch a porn website“.
The political commentator had reportedly labored for the model for nearly two years however in an announcement obtained by TMZ, stated: “I want Ye each success sooner or later. I’ve some issues about his new staff, and hope he proceeds with warning.”
Yiannopoulos, who claims he’s a “former gay”, additionally gave TMZ a replica of his resignation letter, obtainable to learn on their website, which confirms that the choice was prompted by Ye’s porn plans.
“I can’t be complicit within the manufacturing or dissemination of porn… for ethical and non secular causes,” Yiannopoulos stated, including that “the form of folks invariably concerned in its productions” would put him in “imminent hazard” as a “former gay”.
If the corporate deserted the plans, it will be “an honour to serve” them once more, he added.
Yeezy was initially a collaboration with in style sportswear model Adidas, however the partnership was terminated in 2022 after West made plenty of antisemitic remarks, and wore a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt at a Paris Trend Week present.
Extra lately, West has continued to trigger controversy after allegedly calling Hitler an “innovator” and making homophobic remarks to employees members, a lawsuit claimed.
Yiannopoulos made a reputation for himself because the editor of Breitbart Information, a right-wing, conservative information and opinion web site. Regardless of marrying a person in 2017, he urged Australians to vote towards homosexual marriage and even threw his “sodomy stone” (wedding ceremony ring) into the ocean in 2021.
The commentator joined West’s unsuccessful 2024 presidential marketing campaign, and was later accused of violating federal marketing campaign legal guidelines.