Sherry Pie (real name Joey Gugliemelli) on Tuesday (February 16). “I’ve been a reporter for 30 years, and I’ve conducted and watched interviews with people who have done bad things. I’ve interviewed rapists, I’ve interviewed murderers … it’s not giving away your platform; it’s called an interview. And people who do bad things are interviewed,” she explained amid backlash. Sherry Pie was disqualified from the VH1 competition after multiple men publicly accused him of posing as a casting director to coerce them into doing various things for a role in a show that did not exist, including encouraging steroid use and partaking in sexual acts on camera, among other allegations. He admitted to the allegations and apologized for the behavior.