Gareth Cliff isn’t the only wannabe celeb to have lost a deal with Comedy Central.

Since the rise in disapproval of The Fat Jew’s once popular theft-curated Instagram account, he is losing deals and support left, right, and Central. After being ditched by Comedy Central and Seamless, an online food ordering service, his reputation is being slain as if it were Tiger Wood’s affair.

The most recent angst is from various ramen restaurants who are probably absolutely disgusted by the Fat Jew’s frequent baths in tubs full of food. In an epic fail, he was set to headline a $150-a-head Ramen party at the NYC Wine & Food Festival:

Now doesn’t that just put you off seeing The Fat Jew and ramen in the same room?

After it was announced that The Fat Jew was not only to headline the party, but was also replacing model Chrissy Teigen, culinary director of Serious Eats, Kenji López-Alt, officially withdrew his support. He explained his distaste in a long essay posted to Facebook:

The Fat Jew is the antithesis of everything I represent in the media world. He unapologetically steals other people’s work, stripping it of the creators’ identities. He is a plagiarist, a thief, a misogynist, and absolutely the wrong choice of co-host for a food event, or really any respectable event. That it comes at a time when there’s huge media backlash against him is even more baffling to me.

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As our conversations went on last week, it became clear that the festival organizers were not backing down on their decision to include him, for reasons that are not 100% clear to me.

I spent a week in conversations with Ed debating whether or not we should continue our involvement with the event. We spent a great deal of time detailing our problems with the choice of cohost to event organizers. I’ve already put in tons of time and effort into it, over 200 tickets were already sold while it was marketed as a Food Lab/SeriousEats event, and more importantly, as an event ostensibly designed to raise money for charity, I grappled with the issues of potentially leaving them in the lurch.

The Fat Jew and the types of people who are OK with promoting someone like him actively hurt the quality of good media. In the end I decided that being involved with him and the event would do more harm than good. I simply cannot see myself sharing the stage and promoting-by-association a man that thrives by stealing the efforts of serious writers and comedians, diminishing their ability to get recognized for their work and earn a living off of producing valuable content.

Since the announcements, at least seven restaurants set to participate (Jin, Ivan Ramen, Mu Ramen, Sun Ramen, Yuji Ramen and Bar Chuko) and a sponsor, Sun Noodle, have pulled out. So now, there might not even be a party. Surely the organisers could have seen that coming.

[source: gawker]