The backlash and Twitter feud that resulted from Omar Epps wearing a skirt on The View may be more popular than his 2014 ABC TV show Resurrection--about people mysteriously returning to small town thirty years after they have died. The show has fallen in the rating for yet another week, despite no longer having to compete with the AMC's Walking Dead for Sunday night viewers. Cedric the Entertainer publicly weighed in on Epps skirt choice.
When Omar Epps decided to wear an African buba, which looks just like a black skirt apparently, on stage during his last View appearance, it's hard to guess Omar could have imagined all the attention, both good and bad, that it would garner.
Though Omar has drawn some critics for his fashion sense, most notably from rapper Lord Jamar, legendary comedian Cedric the Entertainer defended Epps dress to BET:
"The thing you have to understand about fashion and art and artists is that they have the ability and they should have the room--if they have the courage--to try a number of different things.
"Now it is true that some tribesmen in Africa wear what could be considered a kilt or skirt.
"Omar is not the first man to do it. Kanye [West] wore it onstage. Akon, who is African, I've seen him rock one.
"I don't want to encourage guys to wear Diane Von Furstenberg backless wrap dresses. [Laughs] So no, I'm not saying you can do everything.
"But, again, done with a degree of style it is what it is."
ABC would be happy if the Omar's skirt fallout would never end; the network is looking for anything to draw attention to the struggling series.
According to Headline Planet, Resurrection's rating continue to be in trouble, even with The Walking Dead's very notable absence:
"In its first week without competition from The Walking Dead...the ABC freshman slipped to a 5.0 overnight household rating. Down from last week's 5.5, it represents the series' third consecutive drop in as many tries.
"The fact that there was a drop at all, given that [Game of Thrones' premiere] surely did not draw an adults 18-49 number on par with the season finale of The Walking Dead, is troubling for a show hoping to prove it is stabilizing."
Well if the series doesn't pan out for Omar Epps, at least, he stil has a promising career in fashion design.
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