A lesser man would take the first Sharknado 23 cameo to come along or reveal himself to be the Caterpillar Conquistador on The Masked Singer, but Asghari has instead slowly, assiduously been working his way up the IMDb food chain. Yet you can’t exactly accuse him of using his association with the pop star to jump-start his own fame. For example, when Asghari was recently seen gamely signing a few autographs for a fan, it raised the hackles of some Spears devotees. And they, too, at times have met Asghari with resistance ranging from conspiracy theories that he’s a conservatorship plant to, more often, protective skepticism. What’s the harm?īut for almost as long as there has been a conservatorship, there’s been a small but vocal segment of Spears’s fans who have rallied against it. You let a circa-2016 version of Asghari into the oppressive machinery you’ve built to control your famous daughter’s life for the same reason you let Clark Kent into your lair. I imagine him carrying himself through the world the same way a hulking stealth ship glides below radar.
In fact, he’s downright unassuming, moving breezily and soundlessly. Though he stands six-foot-two with shoulders that seem almost as broad, he isn’t imposing. He seems to consider his words-and especially their impact in the news-cycle echo chamber-carefully before speaking, then plows forward with conviction. All the rest of it is something I tried not to deal with.” Which, implausibly, actually sounds plausible when Asghari says it. “A lot of crazy things have happened in my life, and they continue happening,” he says. When I ask him, he pivots quickly to the virtues of going with the flow. Asghari himself either doesn’t quite know how he was able to slip into Spears’s orbit or isn’t willing to share how he was able to muscle in. In recent months, Spears’s contemporaries, like *NSYNC’s Lance Bass, have said that the conservatorship has in the past blocked them from making contact.
He has since petitioned the court to end her conservatorship entirely.)
(In August, Jamie announced his intention to step down as Spears's conservator. For the past 13 years, Spears has been under a conservatorship arrangement, managed largely by her father, Jamie Spears, that has restricted virtually every facet of her life, including her relationships with her two teenage children, her friends and peers, and her potential partners. Whereas most new boyfriends might face a firing squad of gal pals over dinner or have to run the gauntlet of an overbearing parent or two, Asghari has instead faced something uniquely challenging. It’s a scrappy, tight-knit group dedicated to a dreamer who’s found himself at the center of a media storm he could easily whip up even more with one PR stunt, if only he were interested in that kind of fame.įor those who haven’t been following the #FreeBritney saga of late, let’s recap: Asghari, a 27-year-old Iranian American personal-trainer turned actor, has been dating Britney Spears since the two met on the set of a music-video shoot in 2016. His friend/groomer/de facto stylist Maxi (one name) stands at a distance and eggs him on-“Flex those abs until you shit yourself!”-but doesn’t make a dent in Asghari’s Blue Steel. While our proprietors chitchat with us about local pastimes like botched plastic surgery and edibles, the KN95-masked crew is setting up a shot by an infinity pool overlooking Universal Studios.Īsghari does his initial round of handshakes, then quietly hangs back until he’s called on to pop his shirt off and glide into position, standing, literally, on top of the world. We’re squatting in a 1930s-era Hollywood Hills mansion borrowed from a designer friend of Asghari’s manager, Brandon Cohen, a one-man operation who also represents Salt-N-Pepa and Naughty by Nature and has been with Asghari since 2017. SETTING FOOT ON SAM ASGHARI'S Los Angeles photo shoot one overcast day in July is like stepping into an episode of Entourage presented by Men’s Health.
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