Don’t jump the shark: Tara
“AMERICAN Pie” star Tara Reid is leaning into the confusion on Twitter between her and Joe Biden accuser Tara Reade — with the actress reinventing herself as a motivational speaker for “female empowerment and equal pay for women” amid the #MeToo movement.
In March, Reade, 56, a Biden staffer in the early 1990s when he was in the Senate, publicly accused the presidential candidate of sexual assault, which he strongly denies. Ever since, “Sharknado” actress Reid, 44, has seen her Twitter timeline inundated with threatening and snarky comments from users mixing up the Taras. Yet sources said Reid is also gaining demand for personal appearances and product endorsements.
Now a publicist for Reid is ramping up her presence on the motivational-speaking circuit to capitalize on the misrecognition.
Philippe Ashfield, a literary agent and talent manager, says, “Tara Reid is set for motivational speaking on female empowerment and equal pay for women in Hollywood. After all, she had been judged for being beautiful, blonde and female for many years before the #MeToo movement happened.” He added, “Tara is set to make a major comeback in the next 12 months.”
Her in-the-works comedy feature, “Tom, Dick & Harry,” in which she is due to play “a casino croupier and an American spy,” has been put on hold due to the pandemic, as is the remake of Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot.”
Following confused comments on social media such as, “Serious question: Did Joe Biden allegedly sexually assault Tara Reid before or after Sharknado?,” Reid told The Post, “It’s so crazy. I looked at my Twitter and people were telling me ‘You’re a wrong, bad person!’ I was like, ‘You’ve lost your mind . . . It’s not me! You’ve got the wrong Tara!’ ” Reid added, “I mean, c’mon . . . I’ve done a lot over the years, but not this . . . I don’t know Joe Biden . . . I’m not into politics at all. What is going on? The wrong person to bring into politics is me.”