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She's the original HBIC, and her moments are absolutely unmatched. Join us as we count down the most unforgettable highlights from the iconic Tiffany "New York" Pollard! From reality TV feuds to viral meme-worthy one-liners, New York has never failed to deliver. What's your favorite Tiffany "New York" Pollard quote? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:00Nice to meet you. What's your name?
00:05Don't hold your hand out.
00:07Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most unforgettable HBIC highlights of all time.
00:14When I think of Muslim, I don't Muslim-anity.
00:19No, Islam.
00:22Number 10. Not everyone gets a good morning.
00:25Tiffany Pollard woke up and chose violence, literally.
00:28Her stint on Flavor of Love spawned some of the most timeless memes ever.
00:32Who can forget her calling Goldie cute, only to assert that Gorgeous, obviously talking about herself, devours cute.
00:38She's a cute girl, you know, cute next to Gorgeous. Gorgeous is gonna, you know, devour cute.
00:45So, um, in the looks department, I definitely, you know, I've scored too high for her to catch up.
00:51Another iconic scene is when she comes in while the women have gathered for breakfast and wishes almost everyone a
00:56good morning.
00:56Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning.
01:03Not you. You can choke.
01:05She's uncharacteristically soft-spoken as she greets her co-contestants, until she comes across Rain, aka Thayla Brown.
01:12Now, keep in mind, these two were not on the best of terms.
01:15So not only did New York leave her out of her morning pleasantries, but she also hit her with a
01:19hilariously petty verbal jab out of nowhere.
01:21The unpredictability was hilarious.
01:24This was the first interaction I really had with Rain, so I wanted to see her, um, her anger level.
01:31I wanted to see if I was powerful enough to twist her mind.
01:36Number 9. Pollard for President.
01:38The internet collectively lost its mind when Tiffany made an appearance on comedian Ziwe Fumudo's famed interview series,
01:44Ziwe, You'd Be an Iconic Guest.
01:46One of the most talked-about moments from the show was the star opening up about being non-binary.
01:51My gender would be non-binary, meaning that I'm very flexible and feminine and masculine energy.
01:59And what's the last question?
02:00Pronouns.
02:02Him, her, she, and who, and they?
02:04Another viral moment came when the host asked Tiffany whether the House of Villains was more evil than the U
02:08.S. House of Representatives.
02:10Though she hesitated at first, it didn't take her long to launch into a tirade about the political state of
02:15her country.
02:15When you're taking away benefits, and you're not allowing people to thrive, but you want to sit your ass down
02:25on a gold toilet and take a s***, I have a problem with that.
02:30At one point, Pollard even announced with dramatic flair that she should be the President of the United States.
02:35When she found out the pay wasn't up to her standards, though, she swiftly dropped her political ambition.
02:40I think the base salary is like $175, maybe $400 tops.
02:44A million an hour?
02:46No.
02:47Oh, f*** that.
02:48Let him do it.
02:49But he f***ing up.
02:50Number 8.
02:51The David Guest Incident.
02:52When the Queen of American Reality TV joined Celebrity Big Brother across the pond, fans knew she would bring chaos
02:59to the house.
02:59Needless to say, she did not disappoint.
03:01And what happened?
03:02It just happened now.
03:03Wow.
03:04It's cancer.
03:06And you gotta please stay calm, please.
03:09Oh my god.
03:11In one of the episodes, contestant Angie Bowie was notified of her ex-husband David Bowie's passing.
03:16In a moment of vulnerability, she shared the unfortunate news with Pollard, who had an overblown reaction, to say the
03:22least.
03:23You can't say a word.
03:24Nothing.
03:25David's dead.
03:27No, it's not.
03:28Shh, shh.
03:28Oh!
03:29Shh, shh.
03:30You can't.
03:30You can't.
03:31You can't do that.
03:32Turns out, the David she was thinking of was not the famous musician, but rather their housemate David Guest, who
03:38had been ill for a while.
03:39The situation got out of hand when her panic spread to the other contestants, until the misunderstanding was cleared.
03:45She said that he dropped dead of cancer.
03:47Tiffany, yes, that is true.
03:49But you've got the name wrong.
03:51Wrong David.
03:51It's the wrong David.
03:51It's the wrong David, honey.
03:53We really shouldn't be laughing, but it was a classic comedy of errors.
03:57And behind the scenes, how'd he been taken out as well?
04:00Oh my goodness, he had to be taken out, and he was on medication, poor thing.
04:04I just figured he died.
04:06Number seven, break a leg.
04:07The English language can be strange sometimes.
04:10During an episode of her VH1 show, New York Goes to Hollywood, where she tries to establish herself as an
04:15actress, Tiffany comes across the saying, break a leg.
04:18Break a leg.
04:20How about I break your leg?
04:22The idiom is commonly used in the entertainment industry to wish someone good luck with their performance.
04:27People kept saying it to her, wishing her well on her acting journey.
04:30However, Pollard saw it as a literal threat, getting hilariously defensive.
04:35Thank you so much for seeing you again.
04:36Break a leg, guys.
04:37What is your side of me?
04:38I said break a leg, guys.
04:40I don't want to break a leg.
04:41I'm going to get the part.
04:42That's what I'm going to do.
04:43Her distress quickly turned into embarrassment when she realized her mistake, but the moment was immortalized on the internet forever.
04:50She's been, like, saying all this stuff to me.
04:52She's like, I'm going to break your legs and all this stuff.
04:54Break a leg is something that somebody says to wish you good luck.
04:59Number six, Tiffany's ultimatum.
05:01New York was standing on business when she told Action in an episode of The Next 15 that she was
05:06ready to settle down.
05:07I'm not playing with you.
05:09I want my eggs cracked, meaning I want a child.
05:14I want my name dropped, meaning I want to be married.
05:18The icon was spitting fire with a series of colorful metaphors laying down her demands.
05:23She wanted to be a wife and a mother, and she was not in the mood to play around.
05:27I am not your bed maiden.
05:29I am not your maid.
05:31I am not your floozy or your f***er.
05:35You are going to have to give me something substantial.
05:38It's been 10 years since this moment, and it still keeps going viral on social.
05:43After all, in the hellscape that is modern dating, you need to bring a little HBIC energy to the table
05:48to make sure you're not wasting your time.
05:50And you're going to have to do something for me.
05:52And if you don't want to give me that, I'm gone in January.
05:56But if you want to work with me, I'm here.
05:59Number five, New York versus Flavor Flav.
06:01Tiffany never backs out of a fight, even if her opponent is the star of the dating show she's on.
06:06This is my second time around.
06:09And if he doesn't pick me, I'm not going to be able to speak to him for a while until
06:14my heart can heal.
06:15After losing the first season of Flavor of Love, she joined the second season.
06:19First as a guest, then as a competitor.
06:21The rest of the women on the show were not pleased to have her around, but she made it to
06:25the finale nonetheless.
06:27Unfortunately, when Flavor Flav picked Delicious as the winner over her, our girl had a valid crash out.
06:32It's all right. It's all right. Don't touch me.
06:35I don't much care.
06:36All right, all right, but listen, listen, listen.
06:37You never touch me again.
06:39I understand, New York.
06:39It's all right. You brought me back to open up the same motherf***ing world, Flav.
06:44Screaming, cursing, and tears were involved.
06:46But when Tiffany walked away, she made sure everyone knew that she couldn't care less.
06:50I piss on his grave. How's that? And that's me being real f***ed. I don't care. I don't care.
06:58Number 4. New York vs. Omarosa
07:00Tiffany Pollard isn't in the habit of holding things back.
07:04When she has something to say, she will make sure it's said loud and clear.
07:07So when she was up for elimination in an episode of House of Villains,
07:10she demanded to be kept in the game, refusing to accept sympathy votes.
07:15So I need y'all to keep me here. I don't want a sympathy vote. I don't need a sympathy
07:21vote.
07:22But I need y'all to understand the pecking order.
07:26This rubbed fellow contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman the wrong way.
07:30When she confronted Tiffany about not wanting a so-called sympathy vote from her,
07:33the original HBIC tore her to shreds.
07:37Her profanity-laden takedown left the former White House aide speechless.
07:41Omarosa, may I also say that I find you to be a c***-sucking, c***-guzzling, Republican c***er.
07:48Oh, yo!
07:50And I sleep better at night knowing that you're not in the White House.
07:54The only other time Tiffany delivered a read this lethal on the show
07:57was when she called Johnny Bananas an amphibian reptile.
08:00Let me tell you something, Johnny Bananas.
08:02You leaving this house before I do, even though I'm down in the bottom three and on the hit list.
08:08Okay, you amphibian reptile mother-
08:11Number three, New York vs. Pumpkin.
08:13This duo gave us an award-winning fight.
08:16When Pumpkin, aka Brooke Thompson, was eliminated from Flavor of Love,
08:20she clashed with New York.
08:22Hard.
08:22You know what?
08:23That's why.
08:23You know what?
08:24You are just as ugly on the outside as you are on the inside.
08:27Hoops, I wish you the best of luck, baby.
08:29If you want a real girl, pick Hoops, because she's the f***ing real girl, okay?
08:32Bye, Pumpkin!
08:33Hurling insults at each other was clearly not enough for Pumpkin,
08:36so she decided to spit on New York.
08:39Today, such an act would get her cancelled seven ways to Sunday.
08:42Back then, though, it made for reality TV gold.
08:45Actually, I can slap this s*** at you.
08:47Do it!
08:48Slap me, bitch!
08:50New York retaliated with lightning-fast precision, pushing Brooke down.
08:54The look of utter regret on Pumpkin's face at that moment was unforgettable.
08:58Pollard later told the Gay Times that Pumpkin's attack was
09:00the most disgusting thing she had ever experienced.
09:04You know, that's been 20 years.
09:06Madness.
09:07And people still have a reaction to it.
09:11Like, they'll see me and be like,
09:14oh, the spit scene, and, you know,
09:16are you gonna whoop Pumpkin's ass when you see her?
09:19Number two, the celebrity Big Brother ran.
09:21This iconic moment from the British reality TV show
09:24left viewers with their jaws hanging.
09:26Soon after the infamous David's Dead mix-up,
09:29consistent Gemma Collins was a bit miffed with Tiffany.
09:31The two had been friendly until that point,
09:33and Gemma even gifted the younger star a pair of shoes for her birthday.
09:37However, after the debacle, she promptly took the shoes back.
09:40Oh, bitch, you want your shoes back?
09:42The shoes that you...
09:43Yeah.
09:44I'm gonna give them to you.
09:45I don't know that.
09:46No, no, I'm taking them.
09:47No, she's taking them all right.
09:49Oh, I don't care.
09:50There's stones that are missing in those shoes.
09:52I don't need your shoes.
09:53After discovering this and having it out with Gemma,
09:56Pollard delivered one of the greatest unscripted monologues of all time in the diary room.
10:01She threw such supreme shade that it remains unbeatable to this day.
10:05Somebody lied to her several times and told her that she was fly,
10:10hot, and sexy, and beautiful, and she's nothing like that.
10:14She's nothing of the sort.
10:15Tiffany later revealed on This Morning that Gemma had reclaimed her gift
10:18seemingly because she didn't apologize to Angie Bowie for her misunderstanding.
10:22Are you and Gemma, have you made her?
10:25I mean, do you DM each other and are you back?
10:27We will never be that close, Allison.
10:29But what she did say when I left the house, she said, well done.
10:33Number one, Beyonce.
10:35You know why you took it?
10:36Because you feel threatened.
10:38You know, at least, you know what?
10:39I might be a bitch to the heart, but at least I don't smile in all these girls' faces.
10:44The first thing that comes to mind when you hear the name Tiffany New York Pollard
10:47is her legendary fight with Chetar Taylor, also known as Hottie, on Flavor of Love.
10:52The two were at each other's necks about a jacket
10:54when Hottie claimed everyone was jealous of her because of her likeness to Beyonce.
10:58I'm just jealous because all of my friends that know me tell me that I remind them of Beyonce.
11:02So you cannot...
11:02Oh my god!
11:04The house was in absolute hysterics at the comment,
11:08while Tiffany geared up to execute the most brutal read in the history of reality TV.
11:13Calling her delusional wasn't enough.
11:15New York went for the jugular and compared her to musician Luther Vandross.
11:19The savage moment is so deeply ingrained in pop culture
11:22that people who haven't even watched the show have been quoting it for years.
11:26Beyonce, Beyonce, Beyonce!
11:29You know who you really look like?
11:31You look like Luther Vandross!
11:35What is your favorite quote from Tiffany New York Pollard?
11:38Tell us in the comments.
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