Topics: Film and TV, Celebrity, US News, Viral, Social Media, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok
The original GlamBot creator has commented on the recent controversy surrounding Cole Walliser with a witty dig.
If you've opened up Instagram or TikTok in the past day - haven't we all? - then you'll already be familiar with the whole wedding email fiasco.
If you're confused, then read on - and get with it!
Simply put, a woman named Yinka Animashaun has gone viral after sharing an alleged 2019 email exchange with 'GlamBot guy' Walliser.
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For anyone not familiar, the Glambot is a special camera operated by Walliser for E! News that often crops up on red carpets. It shows celebs posing as a camera zooms in on them in slow motion.
Yinka enquired about organizing the popular red-carpet equipment for her wedding, but she felt his response was 'unkind and unprofessional', as People first reported.
Emails allegedly from Walliser appeared to show he doubted she could afford the GlamBot before giving a price of $300,000, and later accused her of 'pretending' to book the service.
The emails have gained traction now partly because they followed Walliser recently defending Jennifer Lopez against claims that she was rude to him at the Golden Globes.
When Yinka appeared to reassure Walliser the GlamBot would be 'within her budget', he allegedly replied: "I don’t see how you could be since I didn’t say how much it was and could be between $10,000 and $1,000,000."
Later on, Walliser reportedly told her: "It’s $300,000 I’ll take a 10% deposit to secure the gear and once I have the deposit I can do a contract. Ready to get started?"
Yinka responded: "Thanks Cole. I’ll reach out by Monday!" to which Walliser appeared to reply: “If you wanted to know how much it costs you just needed to ask, you don’t need to pretend you are going to book it."
The exchange has essentially become a meme, with GlamBot extraordinaire Joseph Kahn joining in on the fun.
After coming forward as the original device creator on Wednesday (January 21), Kahn couldn't help but weigh in on the growing noise around the controversy.
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Kahn - who designed the Glambot for E! News in 2016 - said: "Do you want to operate a glambot? Here's how you do it.
"Put your iPhone on a selfie stick. Record in slow motion. Swing it at someone really fast. Stabilize it with editing software. Slow it with a good app."
He concluded with the kicker: "Congrats. You just made $300,000 at a wedding."
Following up the tweet, he responded to claims Walliser had 'stolen' his idea for the Glambot, saying: "Guys I swear I'm not salty. Just having fun. It's actually very common in my career to do something and then a client takes elements, equipment, workflow, crew, methodology and replicate it without me."
He continued: "I know that sounds like shade, it's not. That's just the nature of executing for brands. It becomes their image.
"They paid for it, that's the professional agreement, and you have to move on to the next idea. You just have to come up with new s**t. There's always new s**t. That's the game."
UNILAD has reached out to Walliser for comment.
