It’s been more than two years since we first heard about the Operation Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, in which a number of wealthy and prominent parents were accused of committing different sorts of fraud in order to get their children into elite institutions. Lori Loughlin, a Full House alum, whose daughter Olivia Jade was illegally accepted at the University of Southern California, was perhaps the biggest figure in the saga. It elevated Jade from a successful YouTube vlogger to a pop culture sensation, with her name appearing on the upcoming season of Gossip Girl.
The problem is that the show’s authors messed up their facts. Jade herself was the one who fixed them. According to Entertainment Weekly, the social media star resorted to TikTok to express her displeasure with a joke in which one of the young characters, when discussing another’s social media fame, jokes that “Olivia Jade earned followers when her mother went to jail.”
Not at all, Jade countered. Her fact-checking was succinct: She sits in front of a screen in the video, which displays the offending footage. She just says, “No, I didn’t,” after the line.
Indeed, Jade lost subscribers after the scandal hit, going from 1.9 million to 1.8 million. That’s not a lot, but while the shocking revelations made her more famous, it didn’t result in new followers. So there.
