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Rob Schneider’s daughter Tanner Elle Schneider — known by her stage name Ellie King, which she performs under as a Grammy-nominated rock and country musician — recently ripped her father for being “not nice” and causing a “toxic” relationship between the two.
During a recent interview, King railed against her father Rob Schneider for his opinions on the LGBTQ and transgender communities, saying that he largely “talks out of his a–” when speaking on these issues.
“I disagree with a lot of the things that he says. You’re talking out of your a– and you’re talking s— about drag and, you know, anti-gay rights. And it’s like, get f—–,” King said of her father during an interview on Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast.
King further detailed the strained relationship with her father, saying that he sent her to a fat camp and resented her for getting tattoos.
“I was like a really, really heavy child. My dad sent me to fat camp…and then I got in trouble one year because I sprained my ankle and didn’t lose any weight,” King said. “I had already started getting tattooed and it was like 108 degrees. So I had to wear sweaters because my dad was very anti-tattoos or any form of self-expression.”
King said it ultimately boils down to her father Rob Schneider simply not being a nice person.
“He’s just not nice. You can want someone to change so much. You can’t control anyone else’s actions and you can’t control people’s feelings. All you can control is how you react and what you do with your feelings.”
Schneider’s right-wing grift has been perpetuated for quite a while, with the latest public instance being his false claim that the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games was anti-Christian as it “openly celebrated Satan” with its depiction of what he and many liked him thought was The Last Supper.
“I am sorry to say to all the world’s greatest athletes, I wish you all the best, but I cannot watch an Olympics that disrespects Christianity and openly celebrates Satan,” Schneider tweeted. “I sincerely hope these Olympics get the same amount of viewers as CSPAN.”
The Olympics, however, are rooted in Greek origins and culture, therefore explaining the ceremony’s creative team’s claim that the piece was actually inspired by d by Jan van Bijlert’s painting The Feast of the Gods, which depicts a celebration of the Greek god Dionysus, and not The Last Supper.
As for Schneider’s wish that the Olympics get the same viewership as CSPAN — because people like him are only capable of viewing the world through a warped political prism — the opposite wound up being true as the Paris Olympics saw a 76% increase in viewership over the Tokyo Olympics, with many also hailing the 2024 Games as one of the most exciting in the history of the Olympiad.
The 60-year-old Schneider, who was a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live in the late 80s and early 90s before making a handful of middling comedy movies such as Deuce Bigalow and The Hot Chick, most recently made headlines for being kicked off stage during a June 2024 fundraiser for a Canadian medical not-for-profit organization due to the content of his jokes.