{"id":2658,"date":"2026-01-16T23:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/tmz-live-heats-up-over-differing-opinions-on-michael-rapaports-traitors-comment\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:36:35","slug":"tmz-live-heats-up-over-differing-opinions-on-michael-rapaports-traitors-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/tmz-live-heats-up-over-differing-opinions-on-michael-rapaports-traitors-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;TMZ Live&#8217; Heats Up Over Differing Opinions on Michael Rapaport&#8217;s &#8216;Traitors&#8217; Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"article__header--headline-fragments\">\n                          <span class=\"article__header--hf1 text-uppercase h3\">&#8216;TMZ Live&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n                          <span class=\"article__header--hf2 text-uppercase h1\">Rapaport&#8217;s &#8216;Homophobia&#8217; Splits Harvey &amp; Charles<\/span><br \/>\n                      <\/h2>\n<p>        <!--\/.social-media-container--><\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published <time class=\"published-datetime\" datetime=\"2026-01-16T15:09:50-08:00\"><br \/>\n                              January 16, 2026<br \/>\n                            3:09 PM PST<\/time>\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<section id=\"cb-d5d498f4d4f850e69aac3f8a5b4d3afe\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-video-block--default  canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n<div id=\"video-player-4a108dde-620f-4d9e-9e8a-5691c53fcfec-1762224719-image-holder\" class=\"ratio ratio-item video-block__image-holder\">\n          <button class=\"ratio-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-4a108dde-620f-4d9e-9e8a-5691c53fcfec-1762224719-play-btn\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Play video content<\/span><br \/>\n          <\/button><br \/>\n                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/58\/16by9\/2026\/01\/16\/589005b0b68e432b989a23d7844b7409_md.jpg\" alt=\"011626_michael_rapaport_live_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n                  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                    <span class=\"media-credit video-block__media-credit\">TMZ.com<\/span>\n          <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-d5d498f4d4f850e69aac3f8a5b4d3afe--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-efd229d4f944cbe7869aa815fb19fcf8\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p><strong>Harvey<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>and <strong>Charles<\/strong> are usually a tight team &#8230; but <strong>Michael Rapaport<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Traitors&#8221; comments stirred up some trouble in paradise &#8212; with the two men passionately debating on &#8220;TMZ Live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-efd229d4f944cbe7869aa815fb19fcf8--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-41f07a4c4424229e9ea29d315db4eebc\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>Our two colleagues discussed <strong>the reaction to<\/strong> Rapaport claiming <strong>Colton Underwood<\/strong> &#8212; a gay man who was looking for a wife on &#8220;The Bachelor&#8221; while he was still in the closet &#8212; would be an incredible secret-keeper &#8230; and that received quite a negative reaction from his costars. 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He thinks it&#8217;s too close to mocking someone for not feeling comfortable living their truth out loud.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-fe1edb02f92e719e0f088f907b3a86fe--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-9fd6a0970259f0556830bda244ad7344\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>You know how we settle debates around here &#8230; vote below!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-9fd6a0970259f0556830bda244ad7344--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-6932b5c785da7a5f9d613cb5da3d6028\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-poll-block canvas-poll-block-permalink canvas-poll-block--default  canvas-block-is-last \">\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-6932b5c785da7a5f9d613cb5da3d6028--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;TMZ Live&#8217; Rapaport&#8217;s &#8216;Homophobia&#8217; Splits Harvey &amp; Charles Published January 16, 2026 3:09 PM PST Play video content TMZ.com Harvey and Charles are usually a tight team &#8230; but Michael Rapaport&#8216;s &#8220;Traitors&#8221; comments stirred up some trouble in paradise &#8212; with the two men passionately debating on &#8220;TMZ Live.&#8221; Our two colleagues discussed the reaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-trends-and-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fb9353c5b50a48ac8d6f4332ec00ccf3_xl.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}