{"id":2246371,"date":"2026-01-23T00:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2246371"},"modified":"2026-01-23T00:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:13:26","slug":"hes-the-famed-glambot-director-whose-slow-mo-videos-of-celebs-go-viral-but-now-as-nasty-whispers-swirl-and-emails-leak-a-certain-rumor-is-running-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hes-the-famed-glambot-director-whose-slow-mo-videos-of-celebs-go-viral-but-now-as-nasty-whispers-swirl-and-emails-leak-a-certain-rumor-is-running-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"He’s the famed Glambot director whose slow-mo videos of celebs go viral. But now, as nasty whispers swirl and ’emails’ leak… a certain rumor is running wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cole Walliser<\/a>, the manpower behind the ‘Glambot’ red-carpet camera which has quickly become a mainstay of Hollywood award shows, has mixed and mingled with some of the world’s biggest A-listers.<\/p>\n

But it appears that those interactions with the entertainment industry’s brightest and best has given him an elitist edge.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old shot to fame in 2016 when his novel videos of celebrities posing on red carpets went viral. Using a Glambot – essentially a camera mounted on a robotic arm that moves at high speed toward a posing star – Walliser captures dynamic footage of his celebrity subjects that is then edited into\u00a0slow-motion short clips that are easily shared on social media.<\/p>\n

They are often comic or highly glamorous, with a cinema-like quality.<\/p>\n

The shooting style was actually developed by music video director Joseph Kahn in 2016 for the purpose of enhancing E! Entertainment’s red carpet coverage.<\/p>\n

Walliser then took over as the robot’s operator, and has been instructing some of the world’s most famous celebrities on how to strike a pose ever since.<\/p>\n

The Canada<\/a> native\u00a0made headlines this week, however, when footage of an awkward interaction<\/a>\u00a0with Jennifer Lopez<\/a> at the 2026 Golden Globes<\/a> went viral – for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n

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Cole Walliser (pictured in January 2026)\u00a0 is under fire for allegedly sending ‘rude’ emails to two potential clients in 2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Viewers were left fuming after the tightly edited video shared online appeared to show Jennifer Lopez ‘ignore’ Walliser as he prepped her for the Glambot shot (pictured)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lopez’s interaction with E!’s Glambot director Cole Walliser on the Golden Globes red carpet last week (pictured) went viral for all the wrong reasons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Some commenters slammed the singer was\u00a0‘rude’<\/a> and ‘nasty’<\/a>\u00a0for the way she appeared to dismiss\u00a0Walliser as he was instructing her on how to pose.<\/p>\n

Things got so bad that Walliser took to Instagram to insist to his 4.7 million followers that the interaction with Lopez ‘didn’t feel rude in that moment’.<\/span><\/p>\n

Things took a turn, however, when one woman used the viral opportunity to\u00a0share what she described as\u00a0Walliser’s <\/span>own ‘rude’ behavior back in 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n

On January 18, Yinka Animashaun took to X<\/a>\u00a0to share a screen recording of what appeared to be an email exchange between herself and Walliser with the subject line, ‘Glambot Inquiry.’ The Daily Mail viewed the screen recording on X at the time. Animashaun has since turned her profile private.<\/p>\n

While the legitimacy of the emails remains unclear, an email signature included a link to Walliser’s website and his social media handles.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail has contacted Walliser for comment.<\/p>\n

The emails suggest that Animashaun reached out to book Walliser’s Glambot services for a wedding, but was met with resistance. One email marked as being from Walliser stressed that hiring him and the Glambot would be expensive.<\/p>\n

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Glambot director Walliser (pictured) is facing backlash for his alleged lack of professionalism after a woman shared a screen recording of what appears to be a 2019 email exchange<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

He appeared to remind Animashaun that the Glambot is used for ‘the biggest red carpets of the year’ and the cost to book the camera system is ‘not cheap.’<\/p>\n

Animashaun confirmed that the Glambot would be in her budget range, to which Walliser allegedly responded that he didn’t believe her – he had not yet quoted her a fee.<\/p>\n

He appeared to respond that hiring him and his camera crew would cost between $10,000 and $1 million.<\/p>\n

In her reply, Animashaun said she had assumed the fee would be pricey, and then asked Walliser about next steps for booking.<\/p>\n

‘Okay it’s $300,000 and I’ll take a 10 percent deposit to secure the gear and once I have the deposit I can do a contract,’\u00a0Walliser allegedly wrote back.<\/p>\n

Noting his email, Animashaun confirmed that she would reach out by Monday.<\/p>\n

Walliser then appeared to accuse\u00a0Animashaun of ‘pretend[ing] you are going to book it’ in order to just find out how much it would cost.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail has reached out to Animashaun for comment, but has not heard back.<\/p>\n

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Yinka Animashaun took to X to share screenshots of what appeared to be her email exchange with Walliser, asking the content creator about pricing for the Glambot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to the screenshot, Walliser allegedly questioned Animashaun’s ability to afford the Glambot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

According to the Glambot\u00a0website<\/a>, the starting price to rent the high-speed camera is $2,995, but most events would range between $3,000 and $6,000 depending on the location and optional add-ons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cost includes an on-site Glambot director ‘to cue guests,’ an on-set host ‘for flow,’\u00a0a 4ft-by-12ft red carpet, an LED light set, unlimited videos, instant text and email sharing, delivery, set-up and takedown.<\/p>\n

Animashaun wrote <\/a>in a follow-up post that she showed the exchange to her wedding planner, who ‘was in shock’ at Walliser’s supposed behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On X, one user replied<\/a>, ‘Omg this nasty attitude…’<\/p>\n

Another said <\/a>his alleged responses were ‘entitled and unprofessional.’<\/span><\/p>\n

Screenshots of the alleged emails were also posted to Reddit, where some users shared details of their own purported experiences with the Glambot operator.<\/p>\n

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Social media users branded Walliser (pictured) ‘rude’ and ‘nasty’ after seeing the emails allegedly from him\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

‘This completely tracks with the experience I had with him,’ one person claimed <\/a>on the r\/Fauxmoi subreddit. ‘He spoke at my old workplace and he came off as incredibly condescending and entitled. Like he was way too big for his britches, if that makes sense.’<\/p>\n

Another Reddit user claimed <\/a>they had a ‘bad experience’ meeting Walliser while working backstage at the Academy Awards, though they didn’t specify when the alleged incident occurred.<\/p>\n

‘I work backstage at the Oscars and just wanted to chat with him about how I think the Glambot is super cool and I enjoy watching the videos,’ they wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘He barely gave me the time of day (This was before the red carpet had started, so no celebrities were around, FYI).’\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Someone else even claimed that they had also inquired about booking the Glambot for a wedding.<\/p>\n

The user, who goes by Roman on X, replied to Animashaun that they had a similar interaction with the content creator in June 2019.<\/p>\n

Roman posted a screenshot<\/a> of an Instagram direct message that appeared to be sent to Walliser’s official account. The message sent on June 19, 2019 read: ‘Can we book you for a wedding?!?’<\/p>\n

In the screenshot, Walliser seemingly replied, ‘Hey dude. I mean you caaaaaaaaaaan but there’s a reason the GlamBOT is only at the Oscars, the Grammys and the Golden Globes,’ along with five money bag emojis.<\/p>\n

However, some social media users were quick to defend Walliser’s response in this particular alleged exchange.<\/p>\n

‘How is this rude?’ one person asked, while another noted, ‘He’s giving the person a heads up and it’s understandable.’<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail has contacted Roman for comment.<\/p>\n

Walliser has yet to issue a response to the accusations about his supposed ‘rude’ behavior toward potential clients.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But that didn’t stop social media users from commenting on his recent TikTok post, in which he appeared to use generative AI to write a caption for a video.<\/p>\n

The post <\/a>was a Glambot video from the 2026 Golden Globes that featured Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams posing on the red carpet.<\/p>\n

It seemed that Walliser forgot to delete the AI prompt from the caption when it was uploaded to TikTok.<\/p>\n

The caption read,\u00a0‘Here’s a clean grammar and spell check, keeping the tone and energy the same,’ before continuing with a note that Williams was ‘being true to himself on the GlamBOT.’<\/p>\n

One TikTok user commented on the video, writing, ‘You forgot to remove the ChatGPT reply lmao.’<\/p>\n

‘Cole stop using chatgpt,’ someone else wrote. ‘Literally hire me to grammar and spell check for you.’<\/p>\n

‘Hey dude let\u2019s not be using AI for simple CAPTIONS come on,’ wrote a third person.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n