{"id":429,"date":"2006-07-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/07\/mr-t-says-goodbye-to-the-bling.html"},"modified":"2006-07-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T12:00:00","slug":"mr-t-says-goodbye-to-the-bling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/07\/mr-t-says-goodbye-to-the-bling.html","title":{"rendered":"Mr. T Says Good-bye to the Bling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If a rose by any other name is still a rose, then is Mr. T without his miles of gold chains still Mr. T?<\/p>\n

The AP reports that Mr. T, star of “The A-team,” Rocky movies and his own eponymously named Saturday morning cartoon, is saying bye-bye to the bling<\/a> after experiencing the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n

“As a spiritual man, I felt it would be a sin against my God for me to wear all that gold again because I spent a lot of time with the less fortunate,” the AP quotes the actor as saying at the Television Critics Association’s summer meeting.<\/p>\n

“I saw some, I call it ‘sorry celebrities.’ They’ll go down there [New Orleans] and hook up with the people to take a photo-op. I said, ‘How disgusting.’ If you’re not going to go down there with a check and a hammer and a nail to help the people, don’t go down there.”<\/p>\n

And that’s the kind of unvarnished opinion that the former Lawrence Tero will bestow upon viewers of his new advice show “I Pity the Fool<\/a>,” premiering on TV Land in October.<\/p>\n

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