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Ashley Madison’s chief strategy officer reveals what he REALLY thinks about the explosive Netflix documentary

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Ashley Madison's chief strategy officer reveals what he REALLY thinks about the explosive Netflix documentary

 

It’s been over three months since explosive documentary Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal landed on Netflix, yet the divisive app is still very much a hot topic of conversation as the controversial dating service continues to thrive.

 

 

 

The three-part series soared straight into the top 10 most watched programs shortly after dropping on May 15, as viewers were gripped by the subject of infidelity, the 2015 hacking scandal, and the revelation that Ashley Madison employees had catfished men who were looking to cheat on their spouses by creating fake profiles.

 

 

Now, the chief strategy officer for Ashley Madison has shared his honest thoughts on Netflix’s retelling of the drama, which resulted in a slew of famous faces being exposed when the dating service was hacked by a group who referred to themselves as The Impact Team.

 

 

When asked if he’d rather the series hadn’t been made at all, Paul Keable exclusively told DailyMail.com: ‘No, anytime someone wants to talk about our business, so long as they’re being honest… misrepresentations would bother any organization, but I don’t think there was any full misrepresentations.

 

 

‘I would quibble with some of the things, but nothing over the top. The only thing was seeing some of my former colleagues talk about their viewpoints as though it was an official viewpoint.’

 

 

Keable continued: ‘[It] was comical because certain individuals have delusions of grandeur in terms of their importance in our history, and so be it. But yeah, it was an interesting company and I think people who are no longer with the organization miss the excitement of working for a company that is a cultural icon.’

The series features interviews with ex Ashley Madison employees, including the company’s former vice president of sales Evan Back, and former creative director Marc Morgenstern.

It also features various first person accounts with individuals who have used the app in the past, including Christian YouTube star Sam Rader, who cheated on his wife Nia and was exposed thanks to the 2015 scandal.

When asked what he really thought about the documentary, Keable referred to the hack and said: ‘You have to accept criticisms that come and I’m always welcome to have that conversation, but I think that the Netflix series was a bookend to that period of time.

‘It doesn’t mean it’s never going to be talked about again, but I think it did a very good job of summing up how people viewed it, what happened, the outcomes from it to a certain degree.’

He added: ‘I’m wildly biased because I worked for the company, but the one piece that was missing is that they didn’t really talk as much about how everyone assumed that was the end of our business, and yet here we are eight plus years, standing and thriving.’

Netflix stated that Ruby Life, the owners of Ashley Madison, had declined to comment on the claims made in the docuseries – and Keable was keen to explain why they had done so.

‘They did not want us to discuss how we’ve evolved and where we were growing, they only wanted to discuss our past and I said, “you don’t need any comment from us to discuss what happened,”‘ he said.

That was the interesting part, they were looking back and retelling a story that’s already been told so there was nothing new. And again, that’s not a criticism, but we don’t need to add anything to our past because we lived it, we’ve been through it.

‘Again, I’m biased, but I think it’s hard to talk about 2015 without having some cognitive recognition that not only did we survive, we thrived, and we are a sought out expert on the subject matter of adultery, infidelity and monogamy,’ he claimed.

Keable, who has worked for the brand since October 2013, also commented on the fact that the Netflix series explored Ashley Madison’s use of AI and the fake female profiles that were created in order to entice male subscribers.

‘So, all I’ll say to that is it was already out there, there’s nothing new about that, all [of] that story was told,’ Keable stressed, before adding: ‘Clearly we made mistakes in our past, but what wasn’t discussed is that that program was already being shut down prior to 2015.

‘It had been turned off in the States and in Canada and Australia, so we were decommissioning that because it was not right, it didn’t belong there,’ he continued.

‘All aspects of that program are gone, no longer on the platform, and it will never exist in any form ever again because that was part of our commitment to being authentic and true to who we are.

‘But yeah, it was a mistake, we learned from that, but we’d already learned from it because we were shutting it down and the interesting thing is, we’d shut it down – I believe it was in 2014 in the States – and our business still continued to grow.

‘So that’s the thing, we didn’t need it and anyone who thinks we’re doing that now is ludicrous. It’s part of our story, we’re not going to deny that that happened, it’s out there, it was a mistake, we learned from it but it wasn’t what drove the business, and that’s the part people want to believe.

People want to believe that because, again, they don’t believe women have agency over their sex life. They don’t want to believe that women come to Ashley Madison looking for sex because it just hurts that their wife could possibly seek sexual satisfaction elsewhere,’ Keable added.

Despite currently having over 85 million members, Ashley Madison still faces constant criticism and backlash for what it promotes and Keable claims people are ‘hating on the idea’ because they’ve been ‘trained that way.’

‘We can shut down our business tomorrow and not a single affair is gonna stop,’ he insisted. ‘In fact – and I believe this fundamentally – we save more marriages than we end because people find what was missing and they do it in a discreet way versus going to the office or going to the bar or some horrific way to do and then getting caught.

And people are like, “oh, that’s horrible,” and I’m like, “but is it? Because otherwise they’re going to get divorced anyways,” so we’ve created a scenario where both partners are happy. Yes, it’s based on a falsehood, but at least they’re still happy.’

 

(Armani)

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Angry Patrick Mahomes says he will LEAVE the NFL and accuses the NFL of risking player safety before huge run of Chiefs games “If there’s no changes, I will leave” – Full Story Inside

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Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs have an extremely congested schedule coming up – and the passer is far from thrilled with the NFL.

 

 

Angry Patrick Mahomes says he will LEAVE the NFL and accuses the NFL of risking player safety before huge run of Chiefs games “If there’s no changes, I will leave” – Full Story Inside

The two-time defending champions will embark on a stretch of three games in 11 days beginning this weekend when they face the Browns on Sunday, before hosting the Texans on December 21 and then traveling to the Steelers on Christmas.

And while the Chiefs are sitting pretty atop the AFC with a 12-1 record, Mahomes seems to be dreading his team’s next couple of weeks.

‘It is not a good feeling,’ he told reporters on Wednesday, per ESPN. ‘I’m excited to play on Christmas to hopefully get back from what we did last year [when the Chiefs lost to the Raiders], but you never want to play this many games in this short of time.

‘It’s just not great for your body. But at the end of the day, it’s your job, your profession. You have to come to work and do it.’

Mahomes added, ‘All you can do is focus on the game and the practice that you had that day. I try to prepare my body all year long for this stretch by tailoring my workouts, tailoring how you practice and you prepare. The coaches do a great job of taking care of us on the practice field. We practice hard as anybody, but they know how to kind of dial it back when we need it.’

In addition to the Chiefs, the Texans, Steelers and Ravens will also be playing three games in the next 11 days.

Crucially, though, the Ravens and Texans are coming right off of a bye in Week 14, while the Steelers had their break in Week 9.

The Chiefs haven’t had a rest since they returned from their Week 6 bye – a fact that defensive star Chris Jones was eager to point out.

‘This is one thing I’m doing this offseason is I’m going to the NFLPA, especially with us having three games in [an 11-day] span, that we’re mandatory to have a late bye week,’ he said.

‘With our schedule, it’s kind of awkward, to say the least. … That’s a conversation to have this offseason. If a team has somewhat of a schedule like that, they should get a late-season bye. We don’t need a Week [6] bye … Give it to us in Week 8, Week 10, something like that.’

Mahomes and Co. will have a week-and-a-half to recover after their Christmas Day game before facing the Broncos in Week 18 on January 5.

And if Kansas City manages to wrap up a first-round playoff bye before Week 18 – as they currently have a two-game AFC lead over the Bills – Mahomes and the team’s other starters could be held out of the final regular season game.

The quarterback then wouldn’t play until January 18 or 19 in the divisional round.

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Selena Gomez, 32, Is Engaged to Benny Blanco, 36! Star Flaunts Massive Diamond Ring, Shares Sweet Photos, Hilarious Proposal Clips – and Reveals the Wedding Date Along With Another Shocking Surprise: “Our Prayers Have Been Answered, We’re Expecting…”

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Selena Gomez, 32, Is Engaged to Benny Blanco, 36! Star Flaunts Massive Diamond Ring, Shares Sweet Photos, Hilarious Proposal Clips – and Reveals the Wedding Date Along With Another Shocking Surprise: “Our Prayers Have Been Answered, We’re Expecting…”

 

Selena Gomez shocked fans on Wednesday night by revealing she is now engaged to her boyfriend Benny Blanco after a year and a half of dating.

 

 

Selena Gomez, 32, Is Engaged to Benny Blanco, 36! Star Flaunts Massive Diamond Ring, Shares Sweet Photos, Hilarious Proposal Clips – and Reveals the Wedding Date Along With Another Shocking Surprise: “Our Prayers Have Been Answered, We’re Expecting…”

The singer, 32, revealed the news on Instagram, sharing the first photos of her massive diamond engagement ring with her 422million followers.

‘forever begins now..’ captioned the Who Said singer. She also included a photo of herself showing off her ring for the camera as Blanco, 36, wrapped his arm around her and kissed her head.

Blanco — a famed music producer — seemingly popped the question during a romantic nighttime picnic featuring Taco Bell.

The couple received an outpouring of love from theor A-list celebrity friends, including Cardi B, Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow and Gomez’s BFF Taylor Swift.

Swift — who has been friends with Gomez since 2008 — offered to be the couple’s ‘flower girl.’

Blanco himself also left a cheeky comment in which he referred to Gomez as his ‘wife.’

‘hey wait… that’s my wife,’ wrote the musician, who earned nearly 150,000 ‘likes.’

Gomez has been dating Blanco since June 2023, though she did not confirm the relationship until that December. At the time, she used Instagram to confirm to fans that she’d been secretly dating the hitmaker for six months and that he was her ‘absolute everything.’

Previously, the Wolves songstress dated The Weeknd, Zedd, Nick Jonas, Taylor Lautner and was linked to a number of other stars, including Zayn Malik and The Chainsmokers’ Andrew Taggart. She also famously had an on-and-off relationship with Justin Bieber, 30, that spanned eight years, before they called it quits in 2018. He is now married to model Hailey Bieber, 28, and they welcomed a baby son in August.

Before getting romantic, Gomez and Blanco were friends for over a decade and even worked on music together.

 

Selena Gomez, 32, Is Engaged to Benny Blanco, 36! Star Flaunts Massive Diamond Ring, Shares Sweet Photos, Hilarious Proposal Clips – and Reveals the Wedding Date Along With Another Shocking Surprise: “Our Prayers Have Been Answered, We’re Expecting…”

 

He has produced three of the singer’s biggest hits, including the 2021 tune I Can’t Get Enough and 2015’s Same Old Love.

Selena Gomez shows off engagement ring from fiance Benny Blanco. Last month, Blanco revealed that it was Gomez who made the first move.

‘She asked me out. It was crazy, it was crazy. She literally asked me… like we were just talking, and then she said, “You wanna get dinner?” And I went to the dinner, and I had no idea,’ he explained on Kai Cenat’s Twitch stream.

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Breaking news: Chargers Coach, Brandon Staley, has issued a stern warning to chiefs QB Patrick mahomes over irregularities and foul plays against tomorrow’s match ” Accused NFL of…

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Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles Chargers Coach, Brandon Staley, has issued a stern warning to Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, regarding alleged irregularities and unsportsmanlike conduct ahead of tomorrow’s crucial matchup.

 

Staley’s Statement “Patrick Mahomes has consistently pushed the boundaries of fair play. We will not tolerate any gamesmanship that compromises the integrity of the game. We’re prepared to take action if necessary.” – Brandon Staley.

 

Breaking news: Chargers Coach, Brandon Staley, has issued a stern warning to chiefs QB Patrick mahomes over irregularities and foul plays against tomorrow’s match ” Accused NFL of…

 

Alleged Irregularities

1. Late-game celebrations
2. Excessive trash talk
3. Alleged tampering with opponent’s equipment

Head Coach Andy Reid dismissed Staley’s claims, saying, “Patrick’s a class act. We’re focused on winning, not worrying about distractions.”

Tomorrow’s Showdown

The Chargers and Chiefs face off in a highly anticipated matchup. Fans eagerly await the outcome, knowing that sportsmanship and fair play will be on full display

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