Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Connect with friends faster than ever with the new Facebook app. (Owens reportedly ended up donating Minaj's contribution to the Actor's Fund in honor of the late Earle Hyman, who played Russell Huxtable on "The Cosby Show."). He also booked roles on NCIS: New Orleans and in the movie Fatale. Geoffrey Owens was in living rooms across America when he starred as Elvin Tibideaux on The Cosby Show from 1985 to 1992, but his Trader Joe’s coworkers failed to … Owens tells Us that he later texted an apology to his 19-year-old son “for the embarrassment that the story might cause him.”, “He sent a beautiful text back saying how he was not embarrassed by me, he was very proud of me and that he was proud to have me as a dad,” he says. Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services. 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The mini trailer features Owens approaching people person-on-the-street style to ask them about their professions while pausing for selfie photos outside various local restaurants and retail establishments. "Not only are we acknowledging that all work matters, but we're also realizing that a lot of the people who do the jobs that — let's face it — we didn't think very much of before are actually heroes.". Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. And in 2019, Owens briefly reflected on his experience at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which spotlighted him during its "I Am an Actor" segment. The TV star, who quit working at Trader Joe’s shortly before his job became news, took the gig for its flexible hours and because he stopped receiving residual payments from The Cosby Show after it was pulled from TV in the wake of star Bill Cosby’s sexual abuse scandal and subsequent prison sentencing. The recognition on the street is still there everywhere I go.”. Geoffrey Owens turns the tables on Trader Joe's job shaming with new show. "A lot of good things happened to me, but the best thing about that whole thing was that people started thinking about and talking about work in a different way. Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. “When I got that text from him, I knew that everything was going to be OK.”. ", Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Protests roil Providence after moped crash that witnesses say involved police car, We tried store-bought pumpkin pies from 5 major grocery stores and Wegmans' tasted practically homemade. Trader Joe’s store in Princeton, New Jersey. "[N]ow, with the COVID crisis, these ideas are even more relevant and significant than ever," he continues. "Somewhere in the middle of the road of my life, I found myself in the dark wood of unemployment and debt," Owens said. After he was "spotted" at Trader Joe's, several of Owens' Hollywood peers — including Tyler Perry, Nicki Minaj, Tami Roman, Pamela Adlon, Terry Crews, Blair Underwood, Patricia Heaton and James Campbell — leapt to his defense, shared their own myriad work experiences and counter-shamed people who looked down on him for making a living. Owens agreed with the "job shaming" characterization, eventually quitting due to the unwanted attention. Copyright © 2020 WABC-TV. The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia alum made headlines in September when a customer snapped photos of him working behind the register at a New Jersey store. "But instead of switching careers like a sane person, I took a job at a local Trader Joe's to see if I could hang in there with my career — and it's actually worked out pretty well. "As you might know, that whole thing didn't quite go as the shamers planned," Owens said in Saturday's video. Owens’ customers, on the other hand, were cognizant from his first day on the job. Part of the A360 Media Entertainment Group. Perry also invited Owens to appear on his OWN series, "The Haves and Have Nots," while Minaj gifted him $25,000. Geoffrey Owens turns the tables on Trader Joe's job shaming with new show, © (Jordan Strauss / Invision / Associated Press). Geoffrey Owens attends the the SAG-AFTRA Foundation 3rd Patron of the Artists Awards in Los Angeles on November 8, 2018. “Every day I worked there, at least one or two people recognized me,” he says. Two years after he was infamously job shamed for working at Trader Joe's, "The Cosby Show" alum Geoffrey Owens has launched an Instagram TV show celebrating essential workers. You got to be back contending like everyone else, which is what I want,” Owens tells Us. In 2018, photos of Owens working in a Trader Joe's were published by The Daily Mail, which many characterized as "job shaming." … Every time I kind of think [the attention is] going away, I realize it’s still there. The new series, titled "Shift Happens," will feature Owens as host, "interviewing working people about their work," according to a promo video released on Instagram over the holiday weekend. I'm Geoffrey Owens, and I am an actor. Part of the A360 Media Entertainment Group.Powered by WordPress.com VIP. “‘Weren’t you that guy, or so and so?’ Another coworker told them, but they didn’t know, so it took about three or four weeks before the staff at my store kind of wholly knew my past and who I was.”, Owens said he suspected that a few staffers “knew in the beginning,” but they managed to stay “very discreet about it.”, “They just decided they would either let me tell people or people would find out on their own,” he tells Us.
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