Tried to Get Me Go to Rehab- Fart That!

Nicole Curtis lost her show on HGTV for using the n-word in the most Nicole Curtis way possible. 

Whatever she was doing at the time, she exclaimed "WHY? It's the last one. Oh, fart n___". She's always had an odd way of cussing. I guess you might develop that in a TV career, no matter what you were doing, just to be safe and employed. I seem to recall her saying cutesy, midwestern gal 'swears' like "Oh, fudge" when I used to watch her show. She went on to say after this slip, "What the fuck is that I just said??!!" I don't know myself! Never heard that before. 

Nicole and I had a falling out several years ago. On Facebook there was a thread about some project she was working on in Minnesota. One of the commenters complained that she had bid on painting jobs for Nicole up there a few times and never gotten chosen. Much to this person's chagrin, Nicole used the paint party approach to do the work and the painter felt duped. Nicole's whole thing (at least back then) was to show her audience how to do things on the cheap. I got that. However, if you are stringing along local contractors with no intent of actually hiring them, that is cruel and unusual punishment. I think that was what she had in mind. At the end of the segment, she could say "And we saved $2500 by doing the painting ourselves! WOO HOO!" I couldn't respect that. Why waste a working man or woman's time when you intended to DIY it and when you could just make up a figure for your fantasy savings? It does happen. I'm sure it happened to me. I know it happened about me once, maybe twice. 

I was painting some bollards in a small business mall for the Indian guy I worked for, when I noticed some guys mean-mugging me. Two of them had broken legs, I recall. I figured out they were a commercial painting company. I wondered why they were not doing the work when they rented space from the Indian. Being a natural born private dick, I did some digging. A couple days later I found a letter from them complaining that they were tired of bidding on jobs for the Indian and not getting job one from him. They were good tenants, how could he treat them this way? Well, I knew the answer to that! He simply got off on knowing how much he was saving by having my on-the-clock ass doing the work. That's the way that man was. He's the guy in Federal prison now. Bank fraud. BTW, I had thought of asking them for work that day, but I thought it would be rude and, frankly, the broken legs kind of scared me off. Though I would get into such work later, I didn't want to be performing stunts that might affect my limbs. 

Back to the Nicole Curtis Facebook thread. I spoke up for the small-time contractors she had been dangling carrots in front of, one too many times. I don't recall what I said, but I was against it. I was also quite professional about it. I was then also quite surprised when later that day the chubby kid who appeared to be her gopher on the show, personal messaged me that if I wanted to tell them how to do their job, I could come to the jobsite and they'd kick my ass. I'm not kidding. This was years ago and I don't recall what I said exactly, but I bet it started with "You fat little motherfucker..." I know how to swear.

I was banned from following her page after that. I kind of lost interest in the show too. Don't know if she handles her own social media (maybe the young, fat fuck did) and maybe she had no knowledge at all of the exchange, but I moved on to other shows that didn't threaten me with violence. Nicole is moving on now too. She implored the film crew to delete the slur, but it managed to make it to HGTV HQ, just the same. She must have pissed off somebody on the crew. She shouldn't have done that. She farting knows that now.