Geoffrey Owens Probably Isn’t Going Back To Trader Joe’s Anytime Soon, Because He Took Tyler Perry’s Job Offer 

Things are looking up for Geoffrey Owens since pictures of him working at Trader Joe’s surfaced last weekend. Elvin from The Cosby Show had been minding his own damn business at work when some nosy nobody snapped some shots and Fox News and Daily Mail ran with the story. Geoffrey quit his 15-month-old job at TJ’s because of the attention. Geoffrey at first felt embarrassed and ashamed, but after a flood of support from fellow actors and the public, he’s turned the episode into a 10-episode stint on Tyler Perry’s hit show “The Haves and the Have Nots“.

According to TMZ, Geoffrey has accepted a role on the show after Tyler personally offered it to him via Twitter. Now, according to People, Nicki Minaj is trying to insert herself into the narrative by saying she wants to donate $25,000 to Geoffrey, which, if she had listened to his Good Morning America interview, she should know he won’t take and might even be embarrassed by the tone deaf offer.

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