Mona Scott Young is no stranger to controversy.
In fact, the success of her “Love and Hip Hop” franchise has made her the frequent target of criticism.
While some have praised her for her business acumen, others feel like Mona’s dominance in reality television prevents her from being a role model to other entrepreneurs.
Her critics feels like she falls short when it comes to morals, so it’s no surprise Camilla Poindexter took an issue with Mona seemingly subliminal jab at Hazel-E:
UPDATE: TMZ is now reporting that Mona has expressed to VH1 that she wants Hazel-E gone. Interestingly enough, she doesn’t have the final say in casting decisions:
Sources close to the ‘LHHH’ executive producer tell TMZ … she made it clear with VH1 she expects Hazel to get booted from the show for saying gays should burn in hell, but contrary to popular belief … Mona doesn’t get final say on personnel decisions.
We’re told Mona’s production company is not the only one involved with ‘LHHH’ so Hazel’s fate will be a group decision — but she’s pressing the network hard to 86 her.
UPDATE #2: Hazel has responded to the report:
UPDATE #3: Mona just posted the following on Instagram moments ago:
UPDATE #4: TMZ is now reporting that Hazel has been fired. However, producers tell the site they made that decision on October 4 due to her antics at the reunion:
A spokesperson for VH1 and the show’s producers say they collectively decided not to pick up Hazel’s option for the next season of ‘LHHH’ — but say that decision was made on Oct. 4. That’s a full 2 weeks before Hazel and her boyfriend went on a heinously homophobic social media rant.
Sources connected to production tell us Hazel had already worn out her welcome by the time she made the remark about gays and the Bible. We’re told she pissed off producers back in September, during the reunion show taping, which is why they pulled the plug.
Wait…Mona really posted that? She really didn’t see the hypocrisy in her quote?
I mean where’s the lie? Mona essentially pays people who do nothing but bully each other every season. She could stop it and make her shows more positive but she never does because all she cares about is ratings. So she needs to have a stadium of seats.
Where was all this outrage when Masika and Misster Ray were calling people monkeys on Twitter? Why was that not equally as problematic? That whole cast is trash and the show needs a serious revamp.
Hazel was out of line but Mona really needs to stop pretending like she didn’t get wealthy off giving people like Hazel a platform.
Don’t people get paid to essentially bull each other on Love & Hip Hop? So why is Mona getting on a soapbox?
Facts!
So many people love to kiss Mona’s a-s so she’s not afraid to post hypocritical bullsh-t like this.
Mona need to go sit down somewhere. She’s just mad cause hazel called her out on the cast she hired.
So Hazel still got a job…that was my takeaway from this
Umm why is Mona playing this PR game? Did she not hire Yung Berg, despite the fact that he called dark skinned women “dark butts” a few years before? I remember her trying to defend it too. So I don’t buy for a second that she gives a damn that Hazel said the same ignorance Berg did. Birds of a feather, right? Mona is so damn fake.
C’mon…you know it’s about gay folks not black women. People will watch us tear each other apart but the minute you come across as homophobic you gone. Black women issues are easily dismissed
The biggest takeaway for me is that Mona isn’t much different from Shaunie. She can’t even fire people without getting it cleared with other people. This definitely makes me look at her differently.
So why wasn’t Moniece fired for that racist sh-t she said about black women a year ago on the gram?
it didn’t get as much exposure i’m guessing
Why are they only addressing the gay comments? So basically darker skinned people can be called monkeys and we can reference the paper bag test but say something about someone gay and you break the internet and its a huge problem. I guess bullying only goes to certain people
I guess they don’t care about the black women she disrespected. A damn shame.
Did they really just make this all about what she said about gays like the comments about dark skinned women were acceptable? And Mona, a dark skinned woman, is allowing that? I can’t.