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  • Nicole Arbour Ingintes Controversy With Fat-Shaming Video, Comedian Gets Censored By YouTube

    Comedian and YouTube celebrity, Nicole Arbour , spoke her mind about obesity in a YouTube video titled, Dear Fat People and got her YouTube channel temporarily suspended on Saturday.

    Arbour claims in her video that “fat-shaming is not a thing.” The comedian suggested that fat people should park at the back of the mall to force them to walk and burn some calories.

    Her video gained a half-million views before she got a notice from Google warning her YouTube channel was going to be disabled for its content. Arbour laughed it off and joked that she is the “first comedian in the history of YouTube to be censored.”

    She also laughed at the body positive movement on social media.

    “If you want to be positive to your body, workout and eat well. That’s being positive to your body,” Arbour pointed out. She ended her video with the reason why she said those harsh words towards fat people: “I am saying this because your friends should be saying it to you.” She explained she was not referring to fat people who have special medical condition which caused their obesity. The YouTube channel was live again by Sunday. As of now, the video has well over 1 million views. In response to the fat-shaming jokes of Arbour, Whitney Way Thore of My Big Fat Fabulous Life said: “Fat-shaming is a thing; it’s a really big thing, no pun intended.”

    Thore who started the No Body Shame campaign explained that fat-shaming is a part of a more serious problem called body-shaming which every person has experienced. In her video, she asked people to be more understanding because nobody knows what that fat person is going through. She gained weight due to polycystic ovarian syndrome.

    Arbour claims she is not affected by the controversy over her video or tweets, Monday.

  • Lynn Anderson, Singer Of 70s Hit ‘Rose Garden’, Dies at 67

    Lynn Anderson, singer of the 70s classic hit (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden, died July 30 at a hospital in Nashville at the age of 67.

    According to her publicist, Lynn Anderson died of cardiac arrest.

    A fixture in the 1970s country music scene, the young Lynn Anderson garnered attention as a young singer on “The Lawrence Welk Show” between 1967 and 1969. That exposure helped land her a record deal with Columbia Records in Nashville.

    In a 1987 interview with the Associated Press, Anderson said Welk felt county music was coming into its own and deserved to be featured on national television.

    “At that time, I was the only one singing country music on national TV every week,” said Anderson. “He’s one of my heroes and always will be.”

    Although she received plenty of attention, it was the single, Rose Garden, that sealed her country music legacy, earning her a Grammy and Country Music Association’s female vocalist of the year award in 1971. It also crossed into mainstream music.

    “It was popular because it touched on emotions,” Anderson told the AP. “It was perfectly timed. It was out just as we came out of the Vietnam years and a lot of people were trying to recover.

    Other hits included Rocky Top, You’re My Man, How Can I Unlove You?, What a Man, My Man Is and Top of the World, which was also recorded by the Carpenters.

    Born Sept. 26, 1947, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Lynn Rene Anderson grew up in Sacramento, California. She was the daughter of country songwriters Casey and Liz Anderson began performing at the age of 6.

    As a teenager, Lynn Anderson was an award-winning equestrian and was voted California Horse Show Queen in 1966.

    Facing some legal battles in her later years while living in Taos, New Mexico, she was issued a restraining order in 1995 by a Taos judge after her boyfriend said she had threatened him following the end of their 12-year relationship.