Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has pulled the plug on his BET reality series. On Friday, the felonious football star announced that The Michael Vick Project will not return for a second season.
“I put a stop to that. They asked me to do it. I don’t have that lifestyle,” Vick told CSN Philadelphia this week.
Vick spent 23 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to running a dog fighting ring. The reality soap followed Vick as he tried to rebuild his reputation after his release from prison.
Editors for gay-favorite Playgirl Magazine have come up with a new way for disgraced NFL quarterback Michael Vick to redeem himself for the dog killing spree that sent him to federal prison for 19 months: posing nude.
The NFL star, who was arrested for animal abuse and promoting dogfighting in 2007, has been invited to strip down for the X-rated mag in exchange for a $1 million donation to overzealous animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
“I sent the request to Michael Vick on Wednesday, but we haven’t heard back yet. I figured he paid back society for dog fighting, but what about the animals? This way he could donate a large sum to PETA and all he’d have to do is pose for the magazine! It’s kind of a win-win situation!” a Playgirl spokesperson revealed in the February 28 issue of Life & Style.
Chris Rock’s stance on dog-fighting has come back to bite him in the — well, you get the picture. The comedian and documentarian behind the critically-acclaimed side-splitter Good Hair has been dumped from a upcoming biopic based on the life of late comedy icon Richard Pryor after defending convicted dog killer Michael Vick during an appearance on The Jay Leno Show earlier this month, The National Enquirer reports. “What the hell did Michael Vick do, man? A dog, a pit bull ain’t even a real dog. A pit bull, that’s the white stuff. Dogs are white man’s best friend – dogs have never been good to black people,” Chris quipped
Fresh off an 18 month prison stint, Michael Vick is picking up the pieces of his life — on a new television reality show.
The Michael Vick Project will premiere on Bamboozled Entertainment Television, AKA BET, later this year and is said to focus on the NFL quarterback’s controversial comeback with the Philadelphia Eagles.
First the trainwreck that is Frankie & Neffe, and now this? BET gives away more reality shows than social services gives away government cheese.
Vick, who served time for running an interstate dog fighting ring, tells The L.A. Times Blog: “I just want people to really get to know me as an individual. What I want to do is change the perception of me. I am a human being. I’ve made some mistakes in the past, and I wish it had never happened. But it’s not about how you fall, but about how you pick yourself up.”
CBS Sports anchor James Brown landed the first interview with former NFL quarterback — the newest Philadelphia Eagle — Michael Vick since the athlete’s release from federal prison on dogfighting charges, for which he entered a guilty plea in 2007.
The former Atlanta Falcons star returned to the Southern city last Saturday for the first of what he vows will be dozens of appearances around the country to urge low-income youths to avoid the dogfighting.
Michael Vick was released from a Kansas prison where he’s been serving a 23-month sentence for financing a dog fighting ring, The Associated Press had learned.
Vick — once the NFL’s highest-paid player — will serve the remainder of his sentence on home confinement with an electronic monitoring device at his five-bedroom home in Hampton, VA.
He will remain on probation for the next three years.
Michael Vick, who’s currently serving a twenty-three month sentence in federal prison for animal cruelty, filed for Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court Monday. The disgraced former Atlanta Falcons quarterback owes between $10 and $50 million to creditors.
Michael Vick entered a guilty plea for dogfighting before a judge in Richmond, VA on Monday morning. After his plea the judge told him, “You’re taking your chances here. You’ll have to live with whatever decision I make.” Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Vick has been suspensed by the NFL. The Atlanta Falcons quarterback has been indefinitely suspended without pay from the NFL, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Friday.
