Out-gay party producer Andy King, noted for his role in the Fyre Festival debacle, has addressed his newfound infamy in a new video.
King shot to fame for his interview in the Netflix documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened. In the film, which recounts the disastrous Fyre Festival, King reveals that at one point Fyre CEO Billy McFarland ordered him to perform oral sex on the Bahamian Minister of Customs in exchange for shipments of Evian water. The more shocking confession: King was actually willing to do it.
With the popularity of the Fyre documentary setting the internet on, well, fire, King became an overnight sensation for his confession, sparking an overwhelming response on social media and a series of memes.
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Now King has taken to social media himself to address his fame. In a video posted to the Netflix Twitter account, King talks about his harrowing moments at the Fyre Festival, and his shocking confession.
“I just don’t want to be necessarily known as The Blowjob King of the world,’ he says. “I’m blown away with the response of the documentary. Completely blown away. I’m now a noun, a verb, and an adjective. It’s mind-boggling.”
In the same video, King also reveals that he has helped start GoFundMe pages for unpaid workers in the Bahamas. One of the biggest controversies to come out of the documentary was the revelation that McFarland and Fyre Media never paid local laborers. “If I can drive positive influences and a lot of positive energy towards, you know, social and environmental impact which is what I base my business on, then I think I can utilize this moment to do a lot of good,” he adds.
Fyre streams exclusively on Netflix.
Andy King has seen all of your FYRE Fest memes — and he loves them! pic.twitter.com/mCNgDoHpjW
— Netflix US (@netflix) January 29, 2019
Chrisk
Yeah not a very good look. The fact that you would seriously go blow somebody because your douchebag friend and partner demanded it of you.
I imagine anyone attached to this fyre fest is a pariah right about now and he’s right up at the top.
Greg
I don’t know. I might do it, but it would depend on a few things.
heyace37
Yeah, and “Fyre Fraud” streams exclusively on Hulu. Both have things worth watching other than this stupid blowjob comment.
lather
So where the H are the pics of the Bahamian Minister of Customs? Maybe doing that would be a good thing.
bowlingbutch
If you think about it you could say it would be a humanitarian blowjob. You would be providing water for thirsty people. Lord knows I have done hundreds or thousands with no payment or gifts.
Tony1129
Well that’s your own fault lol.
Wicked Dickie
The vast majority of your have blown more strangers for less.
ChrisGMN
Ridiculous. No one is calling him the Blowjob King. We are calling him the Blowjob QUEEN.
MarathonBoy
Effeminate and open to engaging in public corruption and de facto prostitution. Bad combo.
It’s also interesting that neither Queerty nor any commenter seems to care that, if the BJ scheme had gone as planned, the Bahamian people would have been robbed of substantial import fee revenue – revenue which is used to sustain the welfare and safety of the Bahamians.
Malibu Eric
What’s wrong with being effeminate?
MarathonBoy
@Malibu Eric – Everything.
nitejonboy
He’s disgusting.
Brian
Seems dim-witted. Even as he’s on camera about to tell the story, he says something like “This won’t go very far….” None of these organizers think through their decisions.
ChironApollo
At 1:01 someone Tweeted: “The old man on the Netflix Fyre Festival documentary…” Argggh Millennials. He’s NOT old!!!
Brian
Yes, he is old. He’s in his 50s (?) with a full head of grays. More importantly, it’s in his attitude. He repeats the line, “in my 30-year career,” at least half a dozen times. He constantly talks about how the world is changing so much that he doesn’t understand it anymore. He has since admitted that he doesn’t know how the Internet works. He’s old. It’s not necessarily bad to be old, but he’s old.
Vince
I thought Andy King was the best part of the documentary. It’s obvious he was infatuated by Billy McFarland and would do just about anything for him.
Invader7
But ya are Blanche.. The BJ King-maybe Baroness !! A king would have blown a LOT of people !!!