Jason Biggs, the actor famous for playing the lead in "American Pie", has come under fire for tweeting some perverse and inappropriate comments about wanting to sexually assault Janna Ryan, the wife of vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.
The furor began last week Wednesday after Rep. Paul Ryan spoke at the Republican National Convention. From his Twitter account, Biggs began criticizing Ryan by first making a sexual joke about him, and then tweeting that he would like to sexually assault his wife, explicitly saying what he would do to her body. Due to the very graphic nature of his tweets, we will not repeat what he said, but website Twitchy has them.
Now Nickelodeon has come under fire from parents concerned about a series of lewd Tweets from actor Jason Biggs, whose account was promoted by the kids' network.
Biggs, who is voicing the character of Leo in the network's new reboot of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," had his Twitter account actively promoted by the "TMNT" page on the site. But the actor allegedly sent out, then deleted, a series of very graphic tweets directed at Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney's wives.
Biggs deleted the alleged tweets about Romney and Ryan, but continued to send out graphic messages, as well as retweeting messages from his wife Jenny Mollen, which are equally as graphic.
Viacom, the parent company of Nickelodeon, hasn't put out an official response to the tweets or the controversy surrounding them.
As for Biggs, in response to fan outrage, he tweeted, "To everyone freaking out about my tweets: you know I put my (blank) in a pie, right?"
Users reached out to Nickelodeon sponsors like General Mills, Kellogs and Kraft Foods and threatened to boycott their products if they did not stop advertising on the network.
