The CharacterName: Emily Young
Type: Human
Special Ability: None
About Them: Emily Young is Sam Uley's fiancée and second cousin to Leah Clearwater. Sam Uley imprinted upon Emily when she was visiting her Leah and he began pursuing her. Emily has copper skin, raven black hair, and three long disfiguring scars running down the right side of her face and down her arms as the result of Sam phasing into a wolf too close to her. The left side of her face is extremely beautiful revealing her former beauty before the scars. These scars pull one of her almond shaped eyes down and also tug on the side of her mouth, causing her to have a scowl on one side of her face. Emily, however, bears no resentment towards Sam or any other members of the pack. Emily works tireless for the Sam and the other members of the wolf pack: cooking them meals and being supportive. Bella also comes under Emily's wing a little as Bella spends her day with Jacob during New Moon.
Their Early History: Due to being human, Emily Young has no past history as only the future lies ahead of her.
Actor Biography
Name: Tinsel Korey
Nick Name(s): Unknown
Date of Birth: N/A
Height: 5' 6"
Hair: Brunette
Eye Color: Brown
Fun Fact: Tinsel is a singer and actress
Hometown(s): Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Career: Tinsel is a new up and coming singer and actress. Her filming credits include T.V. shows such as True Calling, Da Vinci's Quest, Goddivas, Intelligence, Into the West, The Guard, Tin Man, and Rabbit Fall. Her films range from Wyvern, Mothers&Daughters, The Lookout, Hybrid, to The Quality of Life.
About Them: Tinsel Korey is gifted with being able to do excellent British, Russian, Yiddish, and Latin American accents. She enjoys playing baseball, boxing, swimming, gymnastics, running, singing (Alto), guitar, and piano. As well as acting, Korey also writes and performs her own music and has gained quite an extensive following over the past few years.
Quick Quote: ♦
yo yo its jess
ReplyDeletei love werewolfs they are awesome and you are soooooooo lucky to be in the twilight saga its soooooooo unfair cant believe you get to meet taylor lautner he is sooooo hot and amazing
cya xxx
love Jess.A.D
these comments get soooooooooo better every day :x
ReplyDeleteShe's pretty!
ReplyDeleteTo bad the ppl are going to have to make scars on her!
Lucky you get to work close to Taylor
ReplyDeleteWhat Native American tribe is originally from? it does not say
ReplyDeletegreat stuff! what tribes is Tinsel tied to? From what I've read she's done a lot of work in the Native side of the industry..
ReplyDeleteShe's not any tribe. She works as a native actress because she lies about her heritage.
ReplyDeleteDepends what day you ask her. It changes with her mood...
ReplyDeleteShe started implying Cherokee in about 2005, then Objibwe, Mohawk, and now claims Anishnaabe. She also claimed she was adopted at 2, then as an infant, and implies that her step family are Jewish-Russian - claiming that her real parents were hippies in explanation of the name she gave herself as a teenager. She was in fact born and raised Harsha Patel to East Indian parents on 25 March 1980 so there aren't too many groups of people left for her to trivialize, appropriate from or insult.
ReplyDeleteTo expand upon what the anonymous commenter above has already written, Anishinaabe does NOT necessarily = Ojibwe like everyone has been stating when they defend Korey. People who do this, please stop. Odawa and Ojibwe are both Anishinaabe, yet deserve to be acknowledged separately. 'Anishinaabe' is more of a regional-/cultural-identifier, NOT an actual tribe or band. She is using 'nish because it is non-specific, so she doesn't have to come out and say what nation she is from. If she did, then she'd have to talk of her relatives and/or clan. She doesn't have either (at least, she doesn't have a NATIVE family).
ReplyDeleteOh, she has also claimed more recently to be "Anishnaabe [sic] kwe" - implying that she is both 'nish AND Mohawk. Like Ward Churchill, this woman CANNOT get her story straight.
As the anonymous poster of November 9, I wish to clear a few things up. I am incorrect in my SUSPICION that Tinsel has implied she was Cherokee and apologise to Tinsel. The rest is TRUE and proving more-so by the minute but I have no right to pass judgement on her and apologise for this also. Now that I am certain the Native community is communicating openly with each other about this I am more than happy to let them deal with it from now on!
ReplyDeleteShe has appropriated Cherokee culture, though; she used to go around using Cherokee words/phrases, effectively implying she was Tsalagi. She also claimed to be mixed when she was going through that "unsure of it" phase.
ReplyDeleteThe wannabes always start off as Cherokee!
She has appropriated Cherokee culture and language, though...she even used to go around using Cherokee words/phrases, effectively implying she was (in her own mind) Tsalagi. She also claimed to be mixed when she was going through that "unsure of it" phase.
ReplyDeleteThe wannabes always start off as Cherokee, then go tribe shopping to see what's more "original" and suits their fantasies best...
(...then they go tribe shopping, to find whatever they feel is more "original" and suits their fantasies best.)
ReplyDelete"Korey" was her neighbour's last name.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know if she was traditionally adopted into any of the claimed Nations and given a Clan, name(s) and all?
ReplyDeleteShe wasn't. The fact that she has been absolutely silent about this and refuses to address it speaks volumes. She was also supposed to host the 2010 Aboriginal Achievement Awards but they got rid of her.
ReplyDeleteyou've got to be kidding me.
ReplyDeleteojibwe IS anishnaabe. this coming from a full blooded one.
you people can be so judgmental. she doesn't have to prove anything to you. if she feels she has something to say about it, then she will. it is morally wrong if she is lying, but she doesn't appear to be concerned with the selfish thoughts of some people.
my god, it honestly sounds like a giant group of haters. It sounds like jealousy. and maybe next time there will be a better native actress who can put her in her place, so that no one is complaining about unfair choices. Tinsel could be a better actress than the many who tried out for this movie.
and for the fucking record, anishnaabe kwe means Ojibwe woman, you dumb hoes, against her. if you really cared about getting it right, you'd think you'd want to know the facts
ReplyDelete...of tinsel korey and her fans never ceases to amuse.
ReplyDeletei love how, when people do not tow the line of cultural theft, insults are hurled at them. namely, "haters" and "dumb hoes". i highly doubt anyone on here could care less about tinsel korey as an individual, so it's highly unlikely anyone 'hates' her (you have to care about someone to hate them, first). 'hating' cultural theft? ...yeah, doesn't make one a 'hater', just makes them aware and, you know, not racist. 'dumb' means someone is unable to speak, and that's an awfully hefty assumption to make over the internet. i'm guessing the super-smart anonymous commenter leaving these attacks (who is actually the only hateful person) is also assuming everyone in here is female when they say 'hoes', since it's a pretty horrible slur used mainly against women.
swearing is always a sign of security in one's argument. people generally do it when they've nothing to back their claims, and plenty to prove.
truly brilliant.
Now this fake claims she's of the 'Nangbaby' tribe. That's not even real.
ReplyDeletehumor her, she obviously wouldnt tell people out to get her
ReplyDeleteKay wow " vast intellect" I can tell you really looked into the argument the anonymous was trying to prove. Obviously you don't care about the problem in general, and all you can do is call out little mistakes in what they said.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't make you more important to do so. *cough* it's toe the line *cough*
And forthright general judement:
Any native can tell you they're part of a lot of tribes. Personally I'm delawhare, Oneida and OJIBWE ( and it is a large one... And does count as a tribe to say Anishnaabe)
LOL @ people "out to get her", and please. Also, to the commentor above: you don't need to state what tribes you're "part of", person. Thank you for taking the time to educate everybody about how a lot of Native people are mixed intertribally and/or racially. That's breaking news to me. [/sarcasm]
ReplyDeleteAnyway, that's not the point. Terminology and mistakes aren't the point, either. All this garbage aside, the fact of the matter is that "Tinsel Korey" has lied about many things she is not (lies about being Native, lies about being an adoptee...the lying about being Native was bad enough, but the adoptee thing is sick and just shows how small and pathetic she is).
Also, you need to re-read the smartassery above you: "the vast intellect..." was that commentor's subject line, hence the ellipses and then it continues on. They weren't calling themselves that as a nick. They prove a point, though, about the level of maturity displayed in that name-caller's comment. The nastiness says a lot about them.
dude, dont be rude. why the heck does everyone care so much about this... TInsel was picked as Emily, you cant take the movie back, and she wont tell you who she is. Big whoop. how many of you know her personally? how many found out about this from a friend of a friend/website/blog? don't go digging in information that isn't your business. is it your mission to find out? NO
ReplyDeleteAnd if that person wants to enlighten people about her heritage, all for it. don't go hacking at her ankles because she has an opinion
who the fuck do you think you are? a paradox if i ever saw one. so you can be sarcastic, but i cant share a little info about truths?
ReplyDeleteanyways, i was pointing my comment towards her comment. obviously its not her name, unless, you have heard of someone by that name. (when you try to call someone out, please notify me, so i can help ya)
also, whats wrong guys? so she got the part; what did she do to you... did she shoot your baby? it seems like it. and the people supporting her, apparently.
What I want to know is what is wrong with all her friends and fans that use Aboriginal identity to get ahead but are so so whitewashed they think it's okay for someone to disown their family like that. Is there something so wrong with being East Indian (South Asian)? Awful. I don't know how this all started but I hope her family is okay. And I can tell she's South Asian, so can other people who are Asian too. It's right there. Keep swearing and name calling, everyone. The vulgarity makes people coming on here take your POV that much more serious. WHo cares if she got a part in a movie this terrible anyway, she's still self-loathing and a liar and the Native "actors" that she's befriended are too.
ReplyDeletedude, you're probably the nicest person on here. no jokes. ^
ReplyDeleteanyways, i just have to say that i know some of the native actors she's worked with. none of them have a problem with her.
oh, nevermind, there was one. it sounded really hateful though, so that is why im taking tinsel's side. no one deserves to be talked about so badly.
Harsha deserves a lot more flack than she's getting. She's been lying all this time.
ReplyDeletehttp://nangbaby.livejournal.com
First of all, I don't know who you are or what your deal is, but the person behind the "nangbaby" SN needs to cool it. I've seen this type of posting more than once, and OMG you are obsessed! Second of all, have you got it for Tinsel Korey or something? (I'm assuming she gave you the okay for what you did in that link??) Why are you so into this, even going so far as to make an entry on your livejournal for shits and giggles? This doesn't affect or involve you. You give off the impression that you feel Ojibwe or any other Natives that are skeptical are just some "joke" for you to poke fun at, which is pretty messed up.
ReplyDeleteI think most people came to their own conclusions a long time ago. Or by now, at least. The only purpose that link serves is to stir up emotions, it looks like. I don't know how something like this could hold your interest for so long. The other discussion I read about this, your SN was all over the place as well as some other names...it was like reading some high schooler's journal entry following some big falling out with their clique of friends. I don't even want to insult anyone on here like previous commenters have done with each other, but you are just too much. It seems like there's more than one Native voice on here, so let's not trash each other. It's really disheartening. At this point, it's best left alone. And nangbaby, go away.
she's ok
ReplyDeleteOne clue that she isn't Native: she looks terrible for the age she claims to be. And it isn't stress/bad diet (more like bad genes).
ReplyDeleteher high school (William Lyon Mackenzie C.I.) has a profile of her and other notable graduates on their 50th reunion site up at www.wlmac.ca. it says she was born Harsha Patel.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wlmac.ca/50for50/TinselKorey.aspx
She did attend William Lyon Mackenzie C.I. and they did confirm her original name as Harsha Patel with a stage name of Tinsel Korey. They have editied that profile summary recently to remove "born as Harsha Patel," but some sites already have the cache and screencaptures of WLM's original profile honouring Ms. Patel. You can also check through the yearbook for evidence of such.
ReplyDeleteHas Patel claimed to be of Aboriginal descent, or is this all hearsay?
She seems to be backtracking on the whole Native thing, though about a year ago she was definitely claiming to be Native.
ReplyDeleteShe had an FAQ on her MySpace, which she deleted. It's been preserved here: http://www.bluecorncomics.com/2009/08/tinsel-korey-answers-critics.html
Just by reading these previous posts, it seems that Harsha Patel has opened a lot of old wounds by lying about her ancestry. Clearly, this is not the first instance that an actor/writer has tried to further their career by lying about "Native American roots."
ReplyDeleteTo me, this is unethical and SICKENING!
I wouldn't lie about living in the concentration camps during Nazi rule or living in Rwanda during the mass genocides.
Why lie about being from a culture that has experienced such long and bloody histories of discrimination and racism, assimilation, appropriation, and genocide... people that continue to live in third world conditions and continue to carry these pains and hardships for many generations to come?!??!!
While I do believe race should not be a factor when casting for theatre and film, I do not promote lying about one's identity and claiming to be Native American/First Nations.
Congrats to Tinsel Korey/Harsha Patel for getting cast in such a mainstream blockbuster. However, claiming to be First Nations when you are not is nothing short of a slap in the face.
Put on a native choker necklace and photoshop your headshot and you can go from Mr. Blow-Shmo and turn into Mr. Garland Korey from the NISHAWANABE First Nation.
ReplyDeleteTinsel never claimed to be Native to me, and I spent three years as her 'friend". When I was sent a link with all this info about her lying, I suggested she get her folks, or brothers, or cousins or whatever to put a PSA up online to stop all the gossip. Nobody needs to post personal documents such as birth certificates but having family back you up is a pretty simple route to stop gossip.
ReplyDeleteI thought she would say, 'thanks and I will get right on it' (that's what I would do if people were insinuating I was making up a story) but instead she stopped being my friend and basically NEVER wrote me again.
That was when I realized she had duped me, and wasn't a friend.
She is very funny, and fun, and I miss her friendship.
i dont know for sure, but she prolly disowned all her family in Toronto. I do know for sure that she moved to Van, started doing the fake native and then expected the friends she cut ties with to never say anything, which is pretty crazy.
ReplyDeleteYep, she said she severed her ties with her brother in her MySpace pages:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.myspace.com/nangbaby
http://www.myspace.com/tinseltownkorey
Why are the Tinsel Korey fans attacking those who tell the truth? She lied. She confessed. Case closed.
the first post is an April fools joke someone pulled for whatever reason. The second link isn't written by tinsel, but it does have that yearbook picture that says she's Harsha patel.
ReplyDelete"Harsha Patel" is an April Fool's joke? That's makes sense now. I really believed Tinsel Korey was Harsha Patel. Thanks for clearing it up.
ReplyDeleteI checked both MySpaces. The tinseltown one is a really bad April Fool's joke written by a person with the writing skills and mentality of a two-year old. The nangbaby one isn't any better than that and the links from both pages are even worse. I can understand disliking a franchise but carrying over that hate to its actors is sick.
ReplyDeleteIf this joke is casting aspersions on Tinsel Korey then it's no longer funny. It's an opinion to hate Twilight. It's a twisted act to scold an actress for imaginary crimes because she is in Twilight.
Well, I don't know why the people pulled the joke and called themselves Tinsel, but it doesn't change the fact Tinsel really is lying about her identity.
ReplyDelete(That could be why she came under fire and was the butt of a "joke" in the first place.)
ReplyDeleteIf Tinsel did lie about her identity, then the simplest, most straightforward assumption would be that the others are telling the truth. That one entry had "information" that was not widely available, so if Tinsel did not write it, someone who knew her did.
ReplyDeleteI'm dissauded from the idea that Tinsel lied by the incoherent writing of these and other blogs, and the in-fighting. The general temperament among this lot is of crabs in a barrel, each claiming to have exposed Tinsel. In my opinion, it's immature, and children can tell some tall tales.
Pathetic. Sit and speculate and use the "crabbucket" defense to silence Native people, but she is still a liar. Funny, the Tinseltownkorey page writing is a lot better than the writing in most of your comments!
ReplyDeleteI also believe Tinsel Korey lied...but it'll be a hard time proving it because of the sockpuppets shouting insults from all sides.
ReplyDelete"Supporters" of Tinsel Korey cried repeatedly about how every rumor involving her was false. The "detractors" established credibility by proving some of the rumors true. A close read of writing samples from both sides, though, unveils an abundance of similarities in tone and structure in these excerpts. In some instances, the styles of those in favor of Tinsel Korey are nearly identical to those of published blog entries and journalists who wrote that she lied. I'm convinced a few of the prominent and outspoken "detractors" set up screen names of the "supporters" as straw(wo)men to make the story more buzzworthy and to create their own press by exploiting legitimate Native outrage.
It's important to keep the focus on Tinsel Korey and uncover actual verification of the lies. It's also important to realize that not all of the named sources and advocates of Native affairs are operating in full honesty. And it's more than a bit unrealistic to believe that certain anonymous individuals are carrying "grudges" when they backhandedly promote the named indiviuals they're ranting against. They're just as bad as Tinsel Korey and should be discredited under their professional names and not just their sockpuppet accounts.
Hey. folks! Let's all gather around and listen to the bag lady spin her yarn.
ReplyDeleteHow many years has it been since I stayed up all night to clarify rumors? Too many. Thankfully people never, ever learn. Repeat after me.
"Nangbaby is not Nadia Oxford."
If someone gave me a hard time years ago, it was in exchange for insults I had meted out and/or for my aggravating attitude. Wouldn't have shit to do with "promote the named individuals they're ranting against." First it was Tinsel Korey, now this. These increasingly desperate stretches are beyond bizarre.
Believe it or not, I have a life. I'm going to sleep with the fishes now.
I love the smell of retards in the morning.
ReplyDeleteNobody said you were anyone. Especially some "Nadia" we never heard of. That's your own guilty consciense talking. Had you kept your trap shut no one would of EVER known. Now you confirmed it. Dumbass bitch.
Get the fuck out of here and back to blocking people on your journal.
By the way your goddamned lies made us look bad. Harsha Patel is 36 and she looks every inch of it. That's why your name isn't next to hers in the yearbook dumbass. We could have done it without you.
ReplyDeleteWho cares about Nadiababy? Anybody got the name of that photographer Harsha married?
ReplyDeleteI hit a nerve. Does the lady protest too much? Yes, she does. All the while her style and structure resemble what she denies. To her fortune, eyes are elsewhere, not on this site. Otherwise a blatant impersonation would be fodder for laughs, not critics.
ReplyDeleteWith that unpleasantness out the way, the last I heard of Tinsel Korey marrying a Native American was that the gossip was misinformation. If she'd married someone, she would've been spotted with a companion recently. She is in all likelihood single.
archangel i dunno where u got ur info but she married the guy a while back. i dont like white ppl makin fun of natives. whats the bitches address? ill whup a canadian babies ass.
ReplyDeleteDoug Yazzie is her husband.. eyebehold photography.. He follows her everywhere...
ReplyDeleteAGREE TO THE ABOVE POSTED!!!
ReplyDeleteJust by reading these previous posts, it seems that Harsha Patel has opened a lot of old wounds by lying about her ancestry. Clearly, this is not the first instance that an actor/writer has tried to further their career by lying about "Native American roots."
To me, this is unethical and SICKENING!
I wouldn't lie about living in the concentration camps during Nazi rule or living in Rwanda during the mass genocides.
Why lie about being from a culture that has experienced such long and bloody histories of discrimination and racism, assimilation, appropriation, and genocide... people that continue to live in third world conditions and continue to carry these pains and hardships for many generations to come?!??!!
While I do believe race should not be a factor when casting for theatre and film, I do not promote lying about one's identity and claiming to be Native American/First Nations.
Congrats to Tinsel Korey/Harsha Patel for getting cast in such a mainstream blockbuster. However, claiming to be First Nations when you are not is nothing short of a slap in the face.
http://tinselkoreyisharshapatel.blog.com/
ReplyDeleteHarsha Patel[2], is an East Indian actress widely criticized for falsely claiming First Nations “status” in Canada in order to play Aboriginal roles in film and television.
Although she is not of Native American/First Nations descent, Harsha Patel stated in Instyle Magazine that, although “there is a Native American community” that is vibrant, she is, in fact, the “New Native America“,”[3] a comment that sparked outrage on many online blogs[4].
In a recent interview with HollywoodChicago.com, both Patel and co-star BooBoo Stewart, another non-native actor cast in a native role for the Twilight series, promoted the upcoming Twilight film. In the June 29th 2010 interview, Harsha Patel stated that while native people are “struggling,” her presence in “modern day culture, as in the Twilight films, [is] good for native actors.”
Prior to moving to Vancouver, Patel appeared in some ads. After choosing to sever all ties with her biological parents, she decided, in late 2002, to move to Hollywood, but was “stopped at the border because she couldn’t prove she was going to come back to Canada. She couldn’t go home though so she called her friend and got on a flight to Vancouver, abandoned her family and friends, created a new alias, and a new life.”[5]
Patel performed as a singer at the 2008 National Aboriginal Achievement Awards.[6] Patel was scheduled to host the 2010 National Aboriginal Achievement Awards, but was removed from their programming after discovery of her fabricated identity and false claims to First Nations status in Canada. [7]
Patel is a 1998 graduate of William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute and was recently honored on their Wall of Fame to feature 50 Mackenzie alumni who have contributed to society in a significant way.[8] The North York High School list both Patel’s real name and stage name, stating, ““Tinsel Korey, born Harsha Patel, is an up and coming actress and musician now living in Vancouver, British Columbia.”[9]
Patel currently lives in Los Angeles.
Most female native actresses and many directors in Canada knew years ago that she is not native, but plays native roles. This hasn't become a hot-button issue until she has started to claim that she actually IS Native. Now the shit is hitting the fan and she is being called out for lying.
ReplyDeleteCheck out her fam, school, and hook nose for the truth.
P.S. Birth cert. legit enough for proof? Obviously.
"Hook nose?" Tinsel Korey may have lied, but engaging in ethnic remarks needlessly derails the discussion into the morass of late 19th century racial classifications. (That and there are countless people of all races and ethnicities with aquilline noses, so that's not necessarily a foolproof indicator of ancestry.) Cultural theft doesn't warrant racially charged terms to be brandished like swords and it calls the motives of some commenters into question. Are people seeking the truth, or are they ganging up on her primarily because she's not Native? There's a line between defending one's heritage and using it as a pedigree to disparage outsiders. As the old saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right.
ReplyDeleteHi NADIA or NANGBABY or which identity you are today. You forgot to sign in.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the sight of blood pouring from your liberal heart. A desi is a desi is a desi. Your people have mistaken Natives for Punjab bitches since Columbus.
Spare me the FAKE concern for a FAKE Native.
I couldn't agree more with HOOK NOSE comment. TINSEL'S NOSE is HOOK AND her face says PUNJAB all over it. Her face is the only thing that doesn't lie AYEEE...How is that being racist. You can't shut us Natives up throwin in the race card. People please get a clue.
ReplyDeleteNDNS(indians) for idjits that don't get it and I mean feather not dot, had to throw that in my n8tive humor...anyways WE have very distinct features with much smaller pretty noses and keen eyes. Theres a sayin NATIVE EYES NEVER LIE. If you are ignorant and don't know the facial features of BEAUTIFUL NDN women, I invite you to look at my friends & family in my album on photobucket. Look at PUNJAB PATEL aka TINSEL and you will see the difference ok? Harsha aka Tinsel or whatever she calls herself is a LIAR and has been busted. HAVE A GOOT DAY
http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m307/rezfabul0us/NDN%20BEAUTIES/
People are people.
ReplyDeleteHate is really even more boring than lies. So she lied... it doesn't mean she is inherently 'bad'. It means she is confused.
And I challenge anyone up here posting hateful messages about her:
HAVE YOU EVER LIED?
If you have never said anything off base, I stand corrected. But I am betting every person here spouting hate against Harsha/Tinsel has ALSO manufactured some kind of lie; to get a job, to get laid, to appease a boss, to sneak out into a party, yada yada yada...
So Tinsel is confused. Desperate times lead to desperate measures. We are all squandering. Her part in Twilight is SO TINY that being jealous she got it is kind of silly.
Leave the poor girl alone. I am certain she is already pretty messed up having lied to her friends for years. Compassion is hard to muster, but seriously! Imagine having so much shame over your family of origin that you make up some far fetched story? Then IMAGINE trying to sleep at night!! That small role in Twilight will not change her life, unless 15 minutes of fame was all she was seeking.
What WILL change her life is losing her family by lying to them. I just feel sorry for her. Think about how much love you get from YOUR family and then think about NOT HAVING THEM because you lied them out of your world.
hmm wonder how many of these defenders are Tinsel Korey herself. She used to come and 'defend' herself on the imdb TK board using different alias's,it was rather bizarre. She was busted one day when IMDB admin decided to show the email addresses attached to profiles and one of Tinsel's 'defenders' (Blueballs) was actually Tinsel herself. lol The account was registered to Tinsel_123@yahoo.com.
ReplyDeleteYou can bet that some of these comments are from her because she does visit where she's talked about and in those days (pre Moon days) if she wasn't being talked about, she would start threads about herself, "I wonder what Tinsel is doing these days, she's so talented" and then she would come and respond to herself. It was rather entertaining...and ummm desperate?
I bet my life 'NangBaby' is Harsha Patel...2 lives if I had them.
ReplyDeleteNangbaby is Harsha Patel and Destina Faroda and Blueballs123 on IMDB and all of them under the stage name Tinsel Korey, and married to Doug Yazzie. The only thing that still boggles my mind after all this time is how she manages to juggle all these identities and a busy acting career and of course when she is going to come clean in person? She must barely sleep!!!
ReplyDeletethe hate on here is mind blowing. can someone please tell me how you people dont have anything better to do? i was with tinsel for over 3 years of my life,in toronto and i can tell you she still to this day is one of the most loving,kindhearted people i have ever met. since when did hollywood become the grounds to which we base our morals and ethics? every last one of you are being racist and shallow as hell. NOBODY knows her as well as i do just like nobody has ever known me like she does. all i can say is im proud of her for achieving what she always wanted. maybe if you people put this much energy into your own lives you could do the same. and before you accuse me of being her my name is Ryan Chambers i am scottish,irish,acadian french and Mi'Kmaq .I am a native of nova scotia and knew her long long before any of this bullshit. every last one of you should be ashamed of yourselves for being so damm hateful of somebody you dont know in the slightest. GET A LIFE!!!!!
ReplyDeleteDesi-Lover ON BOARD! How much Patel Punjab Pussy did you lick, Private Ryan? Did Bangbaby live up to her name?
ReplyDeleteThe size of the role in the Twilight movies is not the issue... this isn't the 1950's when they would get a white person and put some brown makeup on him and a bad wig with braids and have them speak in broken english... this is 2012 and there are many true first nations actresses who would have fit perfectly into the role of Emily Young... but Hollywood chose a confused woman who is not first nations... what they did and what she is doing is wrong... any way you try to justify it any way you try to defend her... IT IS WRONG...
ReplyDeletewhat gets to me about "tinsel" is that if she's going to lie about her heritage, she can at the VERY LEAST try to give a damn about the ppl she's stealing from. she goes on about how she's ever so socially conscious, but did she say a word about the attawapiskat crisis in northern ontario? all I ever see on her twitter, in interviews, or ANYWHERE is her insipid "believe in dreams" garbage. first nations people are practically second class citizens in canada. why doesn't she try to help, or at least speak out?
ReplyDeleteIt seems that 'Tinsel' is showcasing herself as being proud of her 'native' culture, and caring about politics, and native issues yet she didn't mention a thing about the Attawapiskat crisis like the above 'Anonymous' mentioned. Um....hello, does she not realize that the Attawapiskat nation is in ONTARIO? As in her HOME PROVINCE!? Ok…so she goes out of her way to ‘teach native youth art’ at the Quileute Reserve….obviously not a publicity stunt of any kind. She claims it was to help the kids…..or was it for her own selfish reasons? Yet, real native issues that maybe she should be talking about and voicing, are non-existent. She also claims she’s not on ‘native celebs’ because she doesn’t want to be typecast….yet most of the characters she plays are Native American. She talks about having a ‘little sister’, who is actually her sister-in-law, seeing as she’s married to her personal photographer (coincidentally a card carrying Native American man). Is she implying by stating she has a sister, (who is native) that she’s somehow her blood? There’s proof that she’s said she was adopted, and wasn’t aware of her true background. But now, she’s blatantly claiming native status, (in one interview she says she’s ‘Anishinaabe Tribe’) I wonder what happened between now and then, that she feels she can do this? Maybe she did find out who were ‘biological’ parents are, but I knew her when she first moved to Vancouver, and she told me straight out that she changed her name because she wanted something ‘Star Worthy’. So right there, we know that ‘Tinsel’ isn’t her birth name. I’m just rambling at this point. I just wonder where she gets at, and when someone is going to do some REAL digging, and expose her for what she is.
ReplyDeleteTo Ryan Chambers - If you knew her in Toronto, did you meet her parents? Did she claim to you she was adopted then too? Did her parents corroborate her story?
ReplyDeleteI went to school with her and know that she is sweet and very dedicated to her work. She has NEVER claimed to be Aboriginal or adopted. Her friends, family, classmates, etc all know she is working with a stage name.
ReplyDeleteAlso, she doesn't know a Ryan Chambers. As with anything, anyone can make up a rumour or fake name. At least Harsha admits to using a stage name.
She never once lied about being a native person to Canada nor would she. That is not her personality. She is proud of her family and culture.
I worked with her in Canada and know she is East Indian. We were always submitted for Spanish, Indian, and Native American roles. That's what agents do and you are expected to show up to auditions. She is not native. Harsha would not make such a statement. Lies. I think only white people would assume she is the role she is playing (or teens).
ReplyDeleteshe "never claimed to be Native?" she used to have a whole FAQ on her website stating that she was born as Tinsel Korey" & that she didn't have to prove her Native status because "Sitting Bull didn't." granted, that "FAQ" is long gone because it was painful to read and whoever is helping her along with her farce of a life probably said "dude, you should probably just keep ur mouth shut." she doesn't go around saying she's Native anymore, but she sure as heck used to.
ReplyDeleteif you check, Summit didn't mark her as native when promoting the wolf pack (legal purposes). But they would include her later on in the summary. She never openly told Native magazines or any article that she is biologically Aboriginal. They assumed she was and she didn't deny it. She is doing a good job representing that minority, therefore she should be allowed to be represented in the media as such.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's fair the NAAA pulled her from hosting the awards ceremony when they realised she was a different kind of "Indian." At least she was honest about her identity with those producers and never "lied," as haters are often insisting.
i never saw her alleged webpage, so can only assume this is a rumour. Harsha is a rockstar and I hope she gets to represent all nationalities!
Im pretty sure she has said she IS aboriginal...?
ReplyDeleteFame whore plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteShe is also a PR whore... always do fake BS stuff to sell or advertise something or promote some upcoming "charity" and is paying Mona Loring of MLC PR.
ReplyDeleteCrash and burn no name. Karma is a bitch.
LMAO @ her not knowing a Ryan Chambers. musta been another harsh patel who goes by tinsel korey i was with for those years in toronto. and yes i did meet her parents and little brother on many occasions.
ReplyDelete...okay there loser...
ReplyDeleteLMFAO - "NOBODY knows her as well as i do just like nobody has ever known me like she does. " I guess that is why you two are such hardcore soul mates even to this very day.
Psycho stalker? Harsha? Or non-status wannabe Native?
...All of the above!!!
Harsha pays her PR to create and maintain her "fanclub" - tinselkoreyonline. She's a fake and liar in every possible way. Oh, BTW, I am Michelle Obama. I mean I said it... so it must be true!
ReplyDeleteNo wait... I'm Harsha. No, Miss Tinsel Punjabi.
I heard Harsha constantly googles and comments on herself...
ReplyDeletelol
"I don't think it's fair the NAAA pulled her from hosting the awards ceremony when they realised she was a different kind of "Indian." At least she was honest about her identity with those producers and never "lied," as haters are often insisting."
ReplyDeleteThey have every right to fire any performer/presenter they want. She got caught lying to many people. No point in having her represent the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards just because she got cast in an Aboriginal role. You should be native to be a presenter. Podemski and others really were offended by her lies. For just reason.
web cache of the school confirming biological name on their student records.
ReplyDeletehttp://web.archive.org/web/20100429090255/http://www.wlmac.ca/50for50/
It was made public, then they were asked by 7 nominees, including Harsha, to be taken off the Top 50.
click on artist profile to read bio and see biological name
ReplyDeleteproof she isnt native. but just a liar
ReplyDeletehttp://tinselkorey.wordpress.com/
yuk
ReplyDeleteCheck out the following video, her interview starts at about 1:00. She is blatantly asked what her 'background is' near the end and...well....you should hear her response.
ReplyDeletehttp://vimeo.com/16653803
Check out the following pictures too, when she's not photoshopped, or made up to clown proportions, this is what she actually looks like!
http://www.tinselkoreyonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/419085_372471082770702_141695269181619_1395106_1702474009_n.jpg
http://www.tinselkoreyonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/oscars_20120228_1068094920.jpg
Don`t get me wrong, she`s a pretty girl, but this goes more than skin deep.
http://vimeo.com/16653803
ReplyDeleteWHAT THE HELL! "Anishinabbe Tribe. From Vancouver."
I'm Odawa, Ojibwe, Pottawatomi. Anishinabekwe. My people are not from Vancouver. She is such a liar. I hate this con-artist. And my god her photo touching is insane. She looks rediculously old and east indian in real life. Maybe she "used" to be a pretty girl, but those days are long gone.
Why is she always saying, "I never said I was native." Then sometimes, if she feels like it, she claims to be aboriginal.
Yup.
ReplyDeletePeople made "guesses" that she could pass for Ojib so now she is suddenly not from TO but from Van city. and now she is suddenly not east indian harsha patel, but fake tinsel for anishinabe tribe.
http://tinselkorey.wordpress.com/
wtf
!
yeah, cause your parents "accidently" gave the ontario secondary school all the wrong records (showing birth records that you are Harsha Patel, female, born 1980, etc.) about you when registering you to attend at WLMAC for 5 years. and suddenly everyone who knows you are east indian and a devote hindu are nonexistant and a "hater.' ummm okay there faker.
The fall is harder than the climb. Especially if you have been nothing but deceitful and exploitative.
Wow I just can't wait for the day this all blows up in her lying face!
ReplyDeleteI'm anishinaabe too and it isn't a tribe...
ReplyDeleteWhat a scammer! Plus, now people who said "she never officially claimed native status" or officially on the record said she was nish, got evidence she is pretending to be Native... from the so called Anishinaabe tribe.
Is she Odawa, Ojib, Pottawomti? What rez are her parents from? Oh yeah, the Anishinaabe tribe of Anishinaabe, British Columbia.
lol
ReplyDeleteI'm so sad for her family, how can anyone respect her!
ReplyDeleteShe claims she has a 'roommate', refers to her 'auntie', 'little sister', 'grandma'. But these people are in reference to her husband Doug Yazzie, and his family. How does he feel to just be 'a room mate' in the eyes of the public? How does he feel to be her little puppy dog, constantly following her around carrying her bags, and taking 'promo shots' of her?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/6767230/Twilight-star-in-town.
ReplyDeleteThis is HILARIOUS!!! Find the below quote in the above link
"Korey, who is from the Anishinaabe tribe of North America, says she's been struck by the similarities between Maori culture and her own, including family structure, beliefs, language and respect for the environment."
This is on the William Lyon Mackenzie page
ReplyDeleteTinsel Korey - Born Harsha Patel, East Indian actress in the Twilight series, former student of Ms. Bonnie Moore (Drama and English Teacher since 1990)
I jus heard bout this chick. i saw the twqilight movies, she is only in there for like 5-8 seconds and has lke no lines. crazhy to make up lies just to have a line on screen. besides, she is ugly and a;lready so old for the acrting industry. whos gonna remember a lying ugly old lady?
ReplyDeleteHARSHA PATEL (Tinsel) is an East Indian liar that claims she was adopted by white people, other times she says Jewish parents, Russians, East Indians, and sometimes "hippies." She manufactured this story around the early 2000s prior to moving to BC after disowning her biological East Indian parents and brother. She was signed with Emmerson Talent in Toronto and mostly did non-union work like with Chutzpa Productions and even studied with my old acting teacher, Miriam Lawrence.
ReplyDeleteShe headed to Vancouver after disowning her parents and true identity. She started telling people she was Cherokee, Onedia from Six Nations, Mohawk, Ojibwe, etc. It was rediculous. Then she would tell people "I never said I was native." The lie really developed when she was cast in a native tv show called INTO THE WEST and started posting on her actorsite "I met some aboriginal actors today." Slowly saying she was actually native herself.
She also lied to casting director RENE HAYNES when auditioning for the NEW WORLD, which she obviously didn't get because she looked too old. She even workshopped her big lie into MOTHERS AND DAUGTHERS.
She even told an article that she was born "Tinsel" when her real name is HARSHA PATEL - born and raised. She is a devoute Hindu. When she was with Emmerson Talent, and most recently Kirk Talent in BC, she was sent out on all sorts of ethnic roles like latin american, east indian, native american. Now she claims she is from an Anishinaabe tribe. LIAR LIAR!
She continues misleading people and lying by calling her husband DOUG YAZZIE her "roommate" "friend" and manager.
These past couple of years she has down crazy Public Relations and is with Mona Loring PR. Probably because she has such a small role in Twilight and also to combat the bad, bad publicity and reaction from the public and native communities.
In response to whether she was named Harsha Patel (which is confirmed by the Toronto District School Board) she replied "By the many arms of Vishnu I swear I am not." She claims to be the "New Native America" and that because sitting bull didn't get a status card that she doesn't need one either.
It has been reported that she tried to access Native Resources while in Van City but was turned away because all her ID said HARSHA PATEL.
She is also notorius for replying on blogs about herself and most notably for creating fake twitter accounts to increase her followers.
Alot of the above posting sounded credible until you got to the bottom saying she tried to access Native Resources, and that her ID's said Harsha Patel. I can vouch that her ID did in fact say Tinsel Korey, I didn't belive that was her name and she showed me her drivers licence.
ReplyDeleteALTHOUGH, I don't know what the rules are on changing your name. I know that if you legally change your name, your social insurance number,drivers licence, and your passport change. But I'm not sure if your birth certificate needs to stay, or changes with you. If that's the case she has all the 'proof' she needs in showing her DL & Passport, 'See look! My name is Tinsel!' yeah...ok. BTW, she did admit to me that she changed her 'first' name only.
Part of me wants someone to expose her for what she is, but the other part of me thinks that'll give her more exposure, and that's one thing I don't want for a two-faced liar like her.
YES - She did not start claiming Native until she was cast in Into the West
YES - She claimed adoption, originally saying she was from a 'Jewish Community', then from 'Jewish adoptive parents'
YES - She is married to Doug Yazzie, her 'roommate'
YES - All the 'pets' and relatives she claims are all from his family in Phoenix, including her 'auntie' 'grandma' which are actually Doug's
YES - She has a biological brother, and parents who I have met
YES - She lies to her fans on a regular basis
YES - She's starting to believe her lies, and I can't wait for it all to blow up in her face
LOL. I knowmy sis and mom changed their names and their birth certificates were also chanes. anyone can do it, and it really only takes a mtter of weeks, ad some money. easy peasy!
ReplyDeleteI also heard she dtied the "native resources" stuff too bk in the early 2000s in BC.. then again, soooo many people do that to metis in the praries area with walkin clinics.
she seems gross to me. (maybe metnally unstable?)
imaghnie what that would be like to pretned to be another culture and marry a card carrying indian and pretend all his famiy is really yours and lie on a daily basis so peopole think you are something kool and call your hubby a roommate and make him carry everything while taking pics of you, and disowning your family after changing your birth certifiacate, then. b4 bedtime, create fake twiterr accounts while making sure your passort has your fake name, while posting a few lies on twitter before bedtime,
CRAZY WILD LIFE MAN! CRAAAAAAZY funny. not cool to tose offended tho.
s'only the longformb irht certificate thats stays the same, as it is legally certified. pl;s the gov agencuies can always see legal nm=e changes and dates whn the cnahges were mde. like canada revenyue.
ReplyDeletethe unlamented birth cert MUST be changed. with a name chnge.
I heard about the accessing resources as well, but it wasn't because the identification said "Harsha Patel" but because they knew she wasn't first nations and they saw through her lies, especially about getting her status.
ReplyDeleteMaybe her ID did say Patel, but I am sure they could tell they were speaking to a Hindi.
Clearly the lies are out in the open now. Also, I saw the twilight movies and I don't think she has any lines. Maybe she is background now?
I've noticed alot of increased traffic on this pathological liar....has anyone found some more pictures/evidence pre/Tinsel?
ReplyDeleteI took a class with Miriam Lawrence and Patel was there. She took classes at this studio before I got there(downtown studio - Miriam Lawrence Integated Acting System). Miriam would say to me "Hmm you look like one of my students". Then introduced me to Patel. I was like "I look nothing like her, she is Indian and I am native." It seemed offensive at the time. But you have to play different ethnicities if you look "non=white" as the camera can't hide your ethnicity.
ReplyDeletePatel never lied about being native (why would she?). Everyone at the studio knew she was East Indian. She openly admitted being East Indian during introductions. Then, in 2009, I saw her promoting twilight and I was like WTF!!! She isnt even native, why are they casting outside of the native culture for actors. Unnecessary. I googled and read that she claimed to actually be native canadian. Apparently she was "pre-Tinsel" in Toronto and became Tinseltown Vancouver when she headed to the west coast.
Why do so many actors do this? Taylor Lautner (Twilight), Lynn Collins (Wolverine X-men), Booboo Stweart (Twilight).
It's one thing to play outside your ethnicity. In fact, you have to as an actor of colour (Even Johnny Depp will be playing Tanto soon), but to actually say you are native is soooo outrageous. I hated how Lynn Collins suddenly found Native American roots when cast as Silverfox. Now Harsha Patel, Lautner and asian Booboo are all suddenly "Native American/Canadian."
She only started claiming native after into the west. When people asked her what she was, she'd always answer Canadian
ReplyDeleteShe wrote she moved to Arizona with her husband Doug Yazzie. Really trying to promote the "elders" in that native community.
ReplyDeleteWonder if she will be in the final installment or if she made the cutting room floor and won't be in the final Twilight?
Heard a rumour Harsha Patel won't be in the final installment. She also won't be doing any of the conventions leading up to Breaking Dawn 2.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if this is true. I didn't read the books so don't know if she has a major roll in the final installment. Wonder if her bad publicity had anything to do with her losing her Twilight Convention deals???
yeah, the "elders" she's referring to...her 'auntie' and 'grandma' are actually his....and she claimed she moved 'back' to Arizona....what is she implying now? That she was born there?? what a twat!!
ReplyDeleteHOLY SH*T WILL IT EVER END!!!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.zinkmagazine.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1004:eye-bhold-photography-&catid=67:about-face&Itemid=97
Some peoples lies will never end. That's why they are called pathological liars.
ReplyDeleteHarsha Patel (aka Tinsel Korey) is clearly not crazy, just chooses to lie to deceive people and try and get what she wants. Not sure what audience will continue to believe her
But, its getting very pathetic.
Well what other reason would she move from LA if it's not because she got run out! Everyone got tired of this liar at their events maybe?
ReplyDeletelol
ReplyDeletehttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4q1Ub3e0RIoJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_Collegiate_Institute+Bonnie+Moore+%22Tinsel%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca
ReplyDeleteTinsel Korey - Born Harsha Patel, East Indian actress in the Twilight series, former student of Ms. Bonnie Moore (Drama and English Teacher since 1990)
I posted this here and another place: leave the poor woman alone!
ReplyDeleteI think the script posted by rob is fake cause Harsha never openly claimed to be Native American. I have known her forever and her family and know she is not adopted nor a Native American. I think people just made up rumors of adoption and ethnicity because of a role that she is playing. She never said she was native so why dispel rumours she never made in the first place?
Everyone knows she is Harsha Patel. She has NEVER denied being HARSHA PATEL nor being EAST INDIAN. So don't know what the problem is. She is only recognised by the native community because she landed a native american role.
No need to keep hating a working actress. Native Americans play spanish and latino all the time. East Indians also play Natives too. So what is the problem here with Harsha? Stop the hating. I don't understand why everyone hates Harsha so much. Every website I google there is nothing but hate and mean comments about her and her face/nose, her acting, etc. She isn't conventionally pretty but not ugly. Plus she is getting better and better at acting, so no need to be mean. Harsha is just trying to work in the business just like every other millions of actors are trying to do. And its a dog eat dog business.
All this hate and mean comments is the reason she isn't in Breaking Dawn Part 2. All you jealous people have created such bad PR for her no wonder she is working with her PR team so much. And that cost money to conteract all your negativity.
Leave Harsha Patel alone. Let her work in peace without all saying something rude and offensive.
-Rajarmajum, long time friend of Harsha
Hi there Rajarmajum! She's never claimed to be native? How about you click the below link and jump to 2:20....now what do you have to say?
ReplyDeletehttp://vimeo.com/16653803
I'm glad people have named her husband, because I think they kept it pretty hush hush for a while here in AZ. I am navajo and remember seeing them around the area or hearing about them at times. It makes me wonder if she's living off his native blood roots now. Oh well, we always wondered if she was for real or not and now because of the mixed up stories floating around our area of her and seeing the other information posted all over when i google her I'm thinking it is true that she's not from any tribe.
ReplyDelete"Hi there Rajarmajum! She's never claimed to be native? How about you click the below link and jump to 2:20....now what do you have to say?"
ReplyDeleteShe was referring to her character that she was playing in the movie, not to herself. She has never openly denied being East Indian or being Harsha Patel. She may have a Native husband, which just makes her more diverse in experience and what she can play.
I think you are all a little confused about rumours, which is why you should read them and spread them, especially if you don't know if it is true or not.
If Bollywood offered her something substantial, of course she would accept the role. It shouldn't mean she shouldn't play native american ever again, or spanish, etc.
Also, if the Native American community in Arizona want to pretend she is "one of them" then that is there problem. Maybe they are deluding themselves for their own selfish reasons (wanting a role model, wanting to know someone famous, etc.). That's the Navajo's pretending she is a navajo, not her lying about being navajo born.
-Rajarmajum
Rajarmajum - I posted that video that you claim she is referring to the character in her movie.
ReplyDeleteExcept the native american character she portrays is not from Vancouver, or Anishinaabe. She was asked what her nationality was, and she said she herself Tinsel aka Harsha is native american. How you don't see that in that video...well I think you're the one that is a little confused.
OMG Rajarmajum.....Even with all the evidence you are still blind cause you choose to be. Tinsel Korey aka Harsha Patel LIED on that video footage. How can you clearly not see that? When the lady who interviewed Tinsel asked her what her background was...Tinsel claimed Anishinaabek tribe.
ReplyDeleteHer character in the Twilight series is not Anishinaabek. The Native Nation in the series is Quileute Nation and Makah Nation. YOU NEED TO READ THE BOOK! Are you really that dumb?
And by the way Anishinaabek is not a tribe, its composed of three different First Nations which is Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potowatamie. I would know cause I'm Ojibwe and NO WAY is she Anishinabe.
The Desi Tinsel Korey also lied when she went to New Zealand and told people there she is "Anishinaabe tribe". Hers lies don't stop WTF....READ THIS SHIT DOWN BELOW I posted the link after it for reference.
ReplyDeleteKorey, who is from the Anishinaabe tribe of North America, says she's been struck by the similarities between Maori culture and her own, including family structure, beliefs, language and respect for the environment.
And she believes different indigenous cultures should jump at any chance to learn from each other.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/6767230/Twilight-star-in-town
LOL Isnt is bad enough that she got run out of hollywood? man i just wish the shit would hit the fan for her already...I wonder why her family hasnt come forth?
ReplyDeleteLets see what race she chooses in the near future... lol... maybe she might switch to spanish or even asian. Or maybe she will keep lightening her headshots and pretend she is white...
ReplyDelete"tinkerbells
March 18, 2012 at 11:46 am Log in to Reply
Harsha never lied about being native, nor did she says she “lost her birth certificate.”
Rene Haynes knew she wasn’t native when casting her for “Into the West” (and through many previous casting auditions).
Many other ethnicities received the same casting notice for the pack, including legit native actors. She was chosen and producers where fine with not having a full aboriginal pack cast. Lautner is white and Booboo is Asian. So what?
If femme fetale latina roles come up, there is nothing wrong with her submitting.
Her Publicist M. Loring is getting ready to package her as another ethnicity once the Twi PR campaigns/conventions are down this year."
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/tinsel-korey?before=1328814947
ReplyDeleteMore proof Tinsel Korey/Harsha Patel lies about being Native. Find the below interview in the above link
Are there anything you specifically look for when reviewing a script or upcoming project because the type of roles you play are very diverse along with movies and films you’ve been in?
If I can read the script and memorize after a couple of reads, I know the writing is good. Also, I look for scripts that are not stereotypical. Being a woman of color, I’ve always looked for roles that showcase a strong image indigenous women. I want to book roles that push the boundaries, that challenge me, that make people go, “Oh, wasn’t thinking of her for that role, but I like it.”
I'm also glad that people have now brought her husband into the picture. I have met them both before at a small event in Phoenix. She did tell me that she was native and of course being native myself I had to ask the question of what tribe? response was pretty crazy because I had come across her a couple of times in my fun times in Phoenix. One time it was from a northwestern tribe and then another she stated that she was anishnabe. I was intrigued because I have many of canadian native friends who I have become close to. When I asked her what kind of nish, well the response was that she was adopted out and that it only said on her birth certificate anishnabe. Here and there going back to AZ visiting I sometimes hear other native people questioning her ethnicity and whispering about it but no one ever says anything because her husband is pretty known in the native community scene for his photography. She seemed a little too native for me and this is in no offense to anyone, but if you are native, grew up native with native instincts, you just know when to spot a poser. I also heard that she stays with her husbands grandparents in AZ and claims his little sister as her own. Not sure on how much truth that has but it is what i heard through the natives I hang out with in AZ from time to time. She's a nice person, but I am actually insulted if she is claiming to be native american, canadian or from the U.S., it's still an insult to the rest of us in a small way. I've recently seen her on the Natives Magazine and thought of the whispers right away. I know some other awesome, talented native women who would deserve to grace the cover of this magazine and with truth. I just came across this and thought I would post my experience.
ReplyDeleteUmmm... where would it say "Anishinaabe" on a Canadian birth certificate? I'm Nish, and it just lists age, name, etc. Nish isn't even a tribe? Let alone a type of citizenship. WTF? Can't stand that hoe.
ReplyDeleteShe posted some whack shit on her facebook. She thanked Jennifer Podemski - and Jen hates "Tinsel" - she fired her from hosting the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards when she found out she was Asian and not Native. She also called Doug Yazzie her "best friend" and not her husband. She also stated that her dad is JP Korey, and that she will always carry his "name." What a freakin' phoney. JP isn't her biological dad, so why the f*ck should she steal his name and pretend to be related to him. That part pissed me off cause I have known "Tinsel" for so long and am beyond sick of her lies and deceitfulness to gain publicity and combat her shaddy past.
ReplyDelete-Sickened Beyond Belief
Sorry this was from her Twitter.
ReplyDelete-To my Dad, J.P. Korey.
-my best friend, Doug Yazzie
Special thanks to... Jennifer Podemski
HAHA Jennifer Podemski can't stand her. What a nutcase she is.
ReplyDeleteI'm also Ojibwe and my birth certificate which is Canadian by the way--doesn't state Anishnaabe LMAO.
Tinsel Korey is NOT Native and NEVER will be. She will always be East Indian and I feel sorry for her people. She brings shame on them with her lies.
I'm all about outing Harsha as a fraud, but where are these claims that Jennifer doesn't like her come from? You can see Jennifer retweeting alot of Tinsels tweets etc....why would Jennifer give her the publicity if she didn't like her?
ReplyDeleteYuk. Can't stand this chick. Heard about her bad reputation. Never realised she actually went around actually lyng about be a Native American just to land a role.
ReplyDeleteWTF! There is another Asian playing native in a tv series. Haven't we come far enough to have actually coloured people represent and play those roles?
Guess not!
Such a shame when actresses are uneducated and post dumb offensive comments on the internet.
ReplyDeleteEspecially coming from actors that gear towards kids like Ms. Patel.