Since the college admissions scandal was exposed to the world, more dark secrets from the culprits’ pasts have come to light, particularly involving Lori Loughlin’s influencer daughter Olivia Jade.
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The Daily Mail reports that Olivia was on a 2016 episode of Tap That Awesome App (a Verizon phone challenge) and apparently the game was a stitch-up to make the social media star win.
Fellow influencer Marissa Rachel claims that she actually won the game but studio execs rigged it by making producers reshoot the final questions so that Olivia could take out the title.
“I have nothing against Olivia. I’ve met her on several occasions and she’s perfectly nice. But what happened just didn’t seem right to me,” Marissa said. “I definitely won by a significant amount.”
The outlet spoke to a sneaky source involved in the production of the show who confirmed the stitch up.
“They competed in the first round and Marissa Rachel won,” the source said. “She answered the most questions right and was declared the winner in front of a live studio audience of about 25 people as well as dozens of other crew members. The host announced her as the winner and everyone applauded and cheered. But right after Marissa was declared the winner, two studio executives suddenly came on-set and stopped the shoot and said, ‘We have to film it again with Olivia as the winner.’ Everyone was confused. Marissa Rachel said, ‘But I already won.’”
The source added that “while they were reshooting, Marissa and Rydel [another contestant] were instructed not to buzz in with the correct answers so that Olivia could answer and win. They then allegedly refilmed the scene with Olivia announced as the winner and instructed the studio audience to cheer and clap for Olivia.”
Olivia has yet to comment on this or the college scam and has reportedly left USC to avoid the heckling.
