Kevin Spacey Emmy honor cancelled; Zachary Quinto calls Spacey’s apology a “calculated manipulation”

CBS/Kathleen Holloway(LOS ANGELES) — The most recent host of the Tonys, Kevin Spacey, will no longer be getting a special honor at the Emmys.

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has cancelled plans to honor Spacey with the 2017 International Emmy Founders Award after an allegation by Star Trek: Discovery actor Kevin Rapp in a Buzzfeed interview Sunday night that Spacey made a sexual advance towards him when Rapp was 14.

That’s just the latest fallout for Spacey. On Monday, Netflix announced that the Spacey-led House of Cards will not return after its currently in production season ends, and actor Zachary Quinto became the latest Hollywood figure to criticize Spacey’s Twitter response to Rapp’s allegation.

Though Spacey’s message included an apology, if he “did behave then as [Rapp] describes,” his choice to focus the rest of the statement on coming out as gay ignited outrage from comedians, actors and others.

On Monday, Quinto tweeted, “[I]t is deeply sad and troubling that this is how [K]evin [S]pacey has chosen to come out. not by standing up as a point of pride – in the light of all his many awards and accomplishments – thus inspiring tens of thousands of struggling LGBTQ kids around the world. but as a calculated manipulation to deflect attention from the very serious accusation that he attempt to molest one.”

Quinto continued, “[M]ay [A]nthony [R]app’s voice be the one which is amplified here. [V]ictim’s voices are the ones that deserve to be heard.”

Earlier, singer and reality show star Clay Aiken tweeted, “Hey @KevinSpacey, you can choose to act like a pervert; you can’t ‘choose’ to be gay.”

Comedian Wanda Sykes tweeted, “No no no no no! You do not get to “choose” to hide under the rainbow! Kick rocks!”

Billy Eichner, in a tweet, called Spacey’s statement “truly disgusting, irresponsible and dangerous.”

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