Josh Ostrovsky, the social media personality known as the “Fat Jew,” is teaming up with fashion super-designer Tommy Hilfiger on a “secret” project he referred to while at New York Fashion Week. “I’m doing something with Tommy Hilfiger, some cute stuff… still secret,” he told the New York Post at a party on Monday. Ostrovsky,…
The Fat Jew, meet Karma. Karma, meet The Fat Jew. In a classic taste-of-his-own-medicine scenario, a Twitter user has uploaded every page of the Josh “The Fat Jew” Ostrovsky’s new memoir, “Money Pizza Respect.” Ostrovsky famously came under fire this summer for “curating” his popular Instagram account with unattributed memes and jokes created by other…
Does this really surprise anyone? The week his first hardcover paper book comes out, “The Fat Jew” is declaring social media, where he has 6.5 million Instagram followers, to be . “I was very much born out of the Internet,” the funnyman (real name the Josh Ostrovsky) tells The Telegraph. “But my feeling is that…
It’s been a hard week for The Fat Jew. After weeks of rumors that he had been stealing the jokes that have made him a pop icon, actual evidence of plagiarism surfaced, causing Comedy Central to cancel his contract for a scripted series. But the Fat Jew is not deterred. Josh Ostrovsky (as he is…
Looks like the world is turning against The Fat Jew, Instagram’s most popular class clown. After months of , The Fat Jew, or Josh Ostrovsky’s reported Comedy Central pilot has been canned following accusations of plagiarism and less than legitimate curation of content. Michael Ian Black, Patton Oswalt and Norm McDonald are just some of…
What do The Fat Jew and Bar Refaeli have in common? Plenty, as it turns out. According to , the 30-year-old Instagram star has just signed with One Management agency, which also represents the likes of Bar Refaeli and Karolina Kurkova. His end-goal? “Get uncomfortably famous, develop a raging drug problem, then spiral out of…
The Internet has its own awards show (The Webby Awards). It has its own political issues (net neutrality), its own currency (Bitcoin), and its own push-of-a-button sad trombone (sadtrombone.com). The Internet has its own — well, just about anything. So it’s only natural, then, that the Internet would have a flock of talented, resourceful, sometimes-controversial…
‘The Fat Jew’ — whose in-your-face wit and gut reach millions daily — has decided to break into the wine business, he told Page Six. The new venture? A rosé called “White Girl,” conceived as a response to last summer’s devastating shortage of the pink stuff in the Hamptons. “Our whole platform is ‘never again,’”…
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