{"id":737469,"date":"2021-09-10T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=737469"},"modified":"2021-09-10T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T14:36:05","slug":"times-up-dissolves-advisory-board-to-shield-a-listers-like-reese-witherspoon-and-natalie-portman-from-unfair-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/times-up-dissolves-advisory-board-to-shield-a-listers-like-reese-witherspoon-and-natalie-portman-from-unfair-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Time\u2019s Up Dissolves Advisory Board To \u2018Shield\u2019 A-Listers Like Reese Witherspoon And Natalie Portman, From \u2018Unfair Scrutiny\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftimes-up-dissolves-advisory-board-to-shield-a-listers-like-reese-witherspoon-and-natalie-portman-from-unfair-scrutiny%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=737469&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1339185993-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The implosion of Hollywood MeToo organization, Time\u2019s Up continued this week as the group announced it had dissolved an advisory board that included A-list actresses Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, and Jessica Chastain.<\/p>\n<p>Time\u2019s Up has suffered a series of blows since an investigation into the sexual harassment accusations against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed that two of the group\u2019s leaders helped him draft a letter to discredit staffer Lindsay Boylan after she claimed he touched her inappropriately. The scandal erupted further when it came out that CEO Tina Tchen further instructed Time\u2019s Up staffers not to issue public statements in support of Boylan.<\/p>\n<p>Following the resignations of Tchen and chairwoman Roberta Kaplan, the three-year-old organization\u2019s board of directors \u2014 including actresses Eva Longoria and Ashley Judd and producer Shonda Rhimes \u2014 collectively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/in-wake-of-cuomo-scandal-entire-times-up-board-resigns-including-eva-longoria-and-shonda-rhimes\">announced<\/a> they were resigning. But their statement did not mention Cuomo or Time\u2019s Up\u2019s involvement with him.<\/p>\n<p>That statement also did not address what would become of the 71-member advisory board that boasted some of the most famous names in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Witherspoon, Portman, and Chastain, Janelle Monae, Brie Larson, Tessa Thompson, Padma Lakshmi, Laura Dern, America Ferrera, Kerry Washington, Alyssa Milano, Amy Schumer and Julianne Moore were also sitting members.<\/p>\n<p>As media coverage accusing Hollywood women of hypocrisy swirled, none of the actresses who had previously voiced passionate concern over sexual harassment in the entertainment industry directly addressed the controversy. On Sunday, the organization provided them an escape from this awkward situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/film\/news\/times-up-advisory-board-natalie-portman-jessica-chastain-reese-witherspoon-1235060159\/\">Variety<\/a>, Time\u2019s Up co-founder Nina Shaw sent out an email on Sunday morning alerting all members of the advisory board (also known as the Global Leadership Board) that it was being disbanded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is notice to you that effective immediately, Time\u2019s Up has dissolved the Global Leadership Board,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cThere is no need for your individual resignations, as the group no longer exists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later that evening, she apologized in a second email for the \u201chasty communication,\u201d and \u201cabruptness\u201d that caught many of the board members by surprise, but explained that it was part of an effort to spare them from public embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal behind a quick dissolution of the GLB was to shield all of you from unfair scrutiny,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t think it was possible to have the meeting with the entire GLB ahead of the decision, but we also realize that much nuance was lost in the communication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed source told Variety that some of the stars have received pressure to step down, while others were worried about \u201chaving their names appear in unflattering stories about the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was an effort to shield people who put a lot of time and energy into the cause from unfair criticism. Ninety-nine point nine percent of the members of Time\u2019s Up weren\u2019t involved in the Cuomo scandal, especially the Hollywood contingent,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Waxman, editor-in-chief of the influential trade publication, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/times-up-what-the-hell-just-happened-analysis\/\">The Wrap<\/a>, wrote in an op-ed, \u201cWith the resignation of virtually the entire Time\u2019s Up board of directors\u2026the idea that a group of powerful Hollywood women, united in their purpose to protect women from all walks of life from a pervasive culture of sexual predation, has died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At present, none of the A-list actresses involved with Time\u2019s Up has condemned or addressed the group\u2019s actions regarding Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and <span class=\"il\">counter-cultural<\/span>&nbsp;outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The implosion of Hollywood MeToo organization, Time\u2019s Up continued this week as the group announced it had dissolved an advisory board that included A-list actresses Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}