George Santos is living his best life. The disgraced congress member from New York—who recently made history by becoming the first House member to be ejected by his colleagues without a criminal conviction—says he has found a new and better source of revenue: making personalized videos on Cameo for $500 apiece. “I will have made more money in seven days than I would’ve made in an entire year in Congress,” Santos told CBS New York recently.
Santos’s boasts have brought renewed attention to Cameo, the website and app where users can commission personalized videos from celebrities. Its roster of past and current stars includes professional athletes like football Hall of Famer Brett Favre, actors like Chuck Norris and Ice-T, reality TV stars from The Real Housewives and Survivor, social media influencers, comedians, and even Santa Claus. The site, which exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic, had struggled to stay in the zeitgeist in recent years—but Santos may have given it the lifeline that it needed.
