Tiger King fans react as Dillon Passage completes ‘Savage’ Carole Baskin TikTok challenge
‘Carole Baskin. Killed her husband, wacked him. Can’t convince me that it didn’t happen. Fed him to Tigers, they snackin’. What’s happening’. Carole Baskin’
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Your support makes all the difference.Tiger King’s Dillon Passage, who is married to Carole Baskin’s enemy Joe Exotic, joined in on the TikTok challenge named after the Big Cat Rescue owner.
The viral craze involves dancing along to a remixed version of Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage”.
The new lyrics refer to allegations made that Baskin killed her ex-husband and fed him to tigers. Jack “Don” Lewis disappeared in 1997. Baskin has denied having any involvement in his disappearance, and she has never been charged in connection to the case.
The lyrics read: “Carole Baskin. Killed her husband, wacked him. Can’t convince me that it didn’t happen. Fed him to Tigers, they snackin’. What’s happening’. Carole Baskin.”
Fans of the prolific true-crime series took to social media to express their excitement at the clip of Passage.
“Joe Exotic’s husband doing a Tik Tok to the Carole Baskin song is one of the finest moments of shade in 2020 lol”, said one Twitter user.
“This was worth getting that song stuck in my head again”, commented one fan on TikTok.
Another posted: “This is what the internet needed today.”
In April, Passage told FUBAR Radio that his husband Joe Exotic’s main priority is for Baskin to be “caught for killing her husband”.
“Obviously him getting Carole caught for killing her husband is a huge thing to him, which – who knows what happened?” Passage said.
“The investigators could either find something or they couldn’t. It’s really up in the air. If they do, then they do. If they don’t, then I kind of feel for her because everyone’s been saying she’s killed her husband and if she didn’t then that’s gotta really have an impact on her.”
It was confirmed in March that authorities in Florida have made a fresh appeal for leads in the disappearance of Lewis.
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