The Breakfast Club - Winnie Harlow mocked Whitney Houston’s legacy with Halloween look?

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

Winnie Harlow catches some backlash  for her Whitney Houston halooween  look.. a recreation of Whitney Houston’s iconic 2001 bet award acceptance speech moment.  But Winnie  just reinforces that this was not disrespecting, but homage to  Whitney’s iconic status with her. What do y’all think?YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And she did two very memorable Whitney Houston moments. She dressed up and recreated the Wanna Dance with Somebody video and look, which was iconic. But she also dressed up and recreated Whitney Houston's 2001 moment at the BETT Awards where Whitney Houston was receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. Let's take a listen to Whitney Houston in 2001 accepting this speech. I'm a very woman.

I'm a survivor. I'm a survivor. What? What? Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My God. Hey, wait.

That's mine. That's mine. Let me handle this. But chill. You better lay low. That's what. What? What? What?

Now, Whitney Houston, you know, in this moment, especially a lot of the, you know, the things from this moment, you better let lo. Those things have all gone super viral so much. Those sounds are used across TikTok, across Instagram. everywhere. The memes, and not even just this moment, the memes of Bobby Brown, the means of the means of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, they're everywhere all the time, all across social, from Facebook to X to Instagram, YouTube, all the places. There are videos right now on YouTube just reposting and uploading that speech that we just listened to that have over 4 million views in recent comments. People are still rediscovering this moment every single.

single day. You know, this is the top use down on TikTok as well. So, I mean, I say all that to say that Winnie Harlow is not the first person to call back to this moment. But people were really upset. So she posted a video. She's dressed just like Whitney Houston, hair, just like Whitney Houston. And she reenacts that moment that we just heard and walked and it does a whole, you know, walk out. And, you know, there's a whole thing that went along with this. And the fans are upset now the Whitney Houston Instagram the official Instagram account controlled by the Whitney Houston estate reposted the video themselves and just you know noted that you know it was Winnie Harlow and she redid the iconic moment they weren't upset about it but the people were so

people are in the comments of this Instagram and here are some of the comments so one person says there are so many highlights of Whitney's life and career to honor this feels like making fun of someone where they would have when they were having a hard time and this is people pointing to allegations that this was during the time when Whitney Houston was, you know, using drugs and doing different things. The comment continues, I'm sure that's not your intention. Maybe it's not that deep. But some of her day one fans really still miss her and feel bad about how we lost her. You guys will remember that Whitney Houston passed away in February of 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. The day before the Grammy Awards, she accidentally drowned in a hotel room.

And at the time, she had left behind her daughter, Bobby Christina, who also went on to pass away three years later after that at the age of 22. And, you know, it was just tragic all around. There's been so much conversation just about today. I think today in 2025, there's a lot more conversation about how we deal with people and how we have conversations with people when they're going through things, regardless of what we think those things are. Because there's a lot of moments with, you know, Whitney Houston that, again, our. super viral where people like to have conversations about what they think was happening, whether it was drug use or whatever. But there's a lot that we didn't know the answer to.

And even if we did, there are still conversations that are happening very intensely today in 2025 about how we deal with people going through things. And that's what sparked some of the backlash, with people and fans of Whitney Houston feeling like Winnie Harlow was not being sensitive to whatever Whitney Houston would have been dealing with at the time of this moment. Another person commented, and they're commenting on the official Whitney Houston Instagram page and says, don't like it. Her, I want to dance with somebody. Look was cute and was enough. Whitney was not at her healthiest during this time and cospland this time of her life is in poor taste.

She has so many other beautiful looks to choose from. Now, Winnie Harlow has actually gone to her Instagram to respond to the backlash that she received. And she says, firstly, majority of the responses have been in. incredibly positive because there were some positive responses. People feeling like, yes, this was an iconic Whitney Houston moment. So, rightfully so, you know, this is like another way of honor Whitney. Whitney Harlow continues, I've loved seeing you guys love these Halloween looks. My video wasn't mocking Whitney. That clip has always been one of my favorite moments of hers. She was radiant, funny, confident, and captivating. She was being awarded. The way she moved across that

stage with flair and swag question mark iconic period you better lay low it's something i say at least once a week my mother is one of her biggest fans and named me whitney after her oh why i didn't know that winnie harlowe's real name was whitney why did i think that winnie harlowe's real name was winnie harle let's look that up on the latest episode of next question with me katie kurek i sat down with Bernie Sanders, who is 84 years old, has spent 34 years in Congress and he can still pack a rally with people a quarter of his age. Denver, 34,000 people come out. Salt Lake City, 20,000 people are huge turnouts. People are really dissatisfied about the status quo. His fighting oligarchy tour with AOC and other young progressives has become a movement, but is his message too far to the left?

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okay wait there's a couple name changes here with her oh okay that's why I'm confused okay so Winnie Harlow so Winnie Harlow's birth name is Shantelle I don't know because Fashion Week Daily did an interview with Winnie Harlow back in December of 2028 and And they said, your birth name is Chantelle Brown Young. Where did the name Winnie Harlow come from? And she said, it's literally just from Winnie the Pooh. I was a big fan growing up, and this actually is from a joke with some friends. We were on the phone with some boys.

I grabbed the phone from one of my girls and was like, don't get my friend's attitude. And the boys asked who is this. I looked over and my friend was wearing a Winnie to Pooh t-shirt, so I said my name is Winnie. When I started working, it felt kind of natural just continue with it. Harlow comes from Jean Harlow. I'm a really big Marilyn Monroe fan. But I didn't want to use Monroe because. that felt cheesy. But Gene Harlow was one of Merlin's real big career inspirations. So I took the name

Harlow. I do love my actual name a lot. At the beginning, I tried to go by Chantel Winnie, but then decided to keep Winnie Harlow and Chantel separate. My family calls me Chantel. Yeah, so this was Fashionweekdaily.com back in December of 2018. But here in this posting, she's saying that her legal name is Whitney. That's her real legal name. So maybe there's been a couple name changes. She also she's always been a queen in my house when he continues people are more than headlines a woman who could command a room make you laugh and carry yourself like royalty if all you see when you see Whitney are her struggles you're missing her charisma her humor her talent personality and wit she was hilarious and magnetic that that and that is in all capitals that is and what should be always

highlighted the light that made us all love her attention to positivity so i guess my question to you guys is where do you stand on this? You know, for me, I felt like it was a costume. I felt like it was a moment. I understand where people are coming from. But I don't know. I felt like it was a costume. It was a moment.

I also feel like Winnie Harlow is not the first person to not even recreate, but to lean in and utilize and talk about and repost this moment. It's not like she, you know, came out of nowhere with it. We see this on our timelines and in conversations all the time. I've even said before on the breakfast club, I forget what we were talking about. one day I remember doing the you better lay low like it's become one of those signature moments in pop culture and I know that people go through things behind these moments and that's why people are upset and I love the battle that we do and that we have for people to have the right to go through these moments in private but I don't think that you know even if winnie like let's say right and again this is not what she says she was doing but even if winnie did the costume because not because she thought you know Whitney Houston was as brilliant gorgeous, talented and fabulous, as we all know she was. But just because that moment was a big moment, it's still in some way fair, because it is. It's everywhere. It's Whitney Houston.

But let me know how you guys think. You know, take it to the streets and the tweets, my lowriders. We outside, we outside, we outside. Outside in the tweets. Every other page I go. Halloween is here. Halloween has come. Halloween is gone, actually. Next year, though, do we have to be sensitive about what costumes we're choosing now? Like, I know certain things are off limits and we don't got to even get into them things. I don't want to see nobody that ain't skin folk, Kenfolk and blackface.

We get that. But when it comes to things like this, are we about to start trying to have a conversation around canceling people because of the moments they choose to highlight and what they choose to represent on a holiday that is supposed to be about fun and recreating iconic moments? Let me know. I'm Lauren the Rose. And at the end of the day, y'all could always be. somewhere with anybody else talking about, all of these things, baby. The Halloween controversy

is everywhere. They then got Kanye West's ex and actress Julia Fox dragging her right now for dressing up as Jackie Kennedy with the bloodstained dress after President Kennedy was assassinated. You have Bobby Lights from loving hip-hop who dressed up as Little Nas X when he had one of his mental breakdowns recently dragging him as well. Now that I understand. You know what I mean, but even that, some people are, and I also understand the, the, the, the Kennedy and you know, Julia Fox and people being upset about that. But I don't really know. I feel like Winnie Harlow did a really good job, and I didn't take it maliciously. But y'all let me know what y'all think, okay? There's always going to be controversy, and we'll always be right

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Kentucky went unsolved for years, until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts, and to binge the entire season ad-free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight...

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All you got to do is receive the package. Don't have to open it, just accept it. She was very upset, crying. Once I saw the gun, I tried to take his hand, and I saw the flash of light. Listen to the Chinatown Sting on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.