In an interview with a reporter Saturday, Muhammad said he decided to leave Clark Atlanta in the summer of 2004 to pursue a career in modeling and acting. "If you go to bed at night not feeling comfortable with who you are, I feel sorry for you," he told the group of about 20 women, flashing a dimpled smile. Tiy-E Psychologist/Author" in large letters. imprint - and autographed black-and-white headshots of himself labeled "Dr. Wearing crisp white pants, an embroidered denim blue shirt and black leather Gucci sandals, Muhammad signed two of his books on relationships - published under his own Man II Man Inc. It was taped in 2004 and has an average weekly viewership of 1.7 million people, studio officials said. The heavily promoted show debuted June 8 and will run through June 29. Muhammad fills one of the two "professor" roles. The "Survivor"-style show, which airs Wednesdays on TBS, pits two teams of castaways against each other for a top prize of $250,000. On Saturday, a nattily dressed Muhammad was signing two of his self-published books, "The Secrets Men Keep," and "My Mind, My Body, My Spirit," at a Barnes & Noble in East Point and dishing dirt on his stint on "The Real Gilligan's Island."
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Muhammad has said he was a psychologist in Illinois, where he was originally from, but a search on the state's Financial and Professional Regulation Department Web site and a check with the department's spokesperson revealed no evidence to support that claim. On Tuesday, the Web site was changed to describe the organization as "community-based," rather than nonprofit. "I'm still forming the board of directors," he said. Muhammad said he had not "filed the paperwork" to make the corporation nonprofit. Muhammad said that in 1999 he founded a nonprofit organization called "Man II Man Inc.," which his Web site states is "dedicated to uplifting, motivating and educating inner city youth." Actually, the organization is a for-profit company, said Cara Hodgson of the secretary of state's office.
School officials said he left after they discovered his credentials were bogus. Muhammad said he left Clark Atlanta, where he was an associate professor in the psychology department for four years, because he wasn't paid enough and he "no longer felt that spark" from teaching. In fact, he attended Southern Illinois University for just one semester as an unspecified graduate student, said SIU spokesman Tom Woolf. in psychology at the school from which he has said he graduated, school records show. Muhammad, 35, says he's a doctor, but he didn't earn a Ph.D.
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Kara Sinkule, a spokeswoman for the Georgia secretary of state's office, said Muhammad, known as "The Love Doctor" on a local radio station, could face misdemeanor criminal charges.Ĭlaiming you are a psychologist without a license is illegal, she said. The former Clark Atlanta University associate professor turned castaway on TBS' "The Real Gilligan's Island" has called himself a psychologist on his Web site and book jacket covers, yet he is not licensed to practice psychology in Georgia or anywhere else.
And after all this, this dude is still claiming to be a psychiatrist: He ended up removing certain claims from his own website about who he is because reporters started to out him. Clark Atlanta University fired him from his real-life professor gig after his resume didn't check out and the school he claimed to earn a degree from claimed otherwise. Tiy-E Muhammad claimed to be a psychiatrist and claimed to have a doctoral degree. He was outed as a fraud in an Atlanta Journal Constitution article back in 2005. We've learned that this is the same dude who used to be the guest doctor on "The Ricki Lake Show" and a contestant on "The Real Gilligan's Island" as the professor. But what he conveniently forgot to reveal is that he's a fraud. All this after Sheree bragged to her "stylist" Lawrence about this blind date of hers being a fabulous psychiatrist.ĭr. Dude showed up to meet Sheree at some jook joint style place with random bald spots in his head and some "grocery store flowers" (Sheree's words, not ours). So on last night's episode of "Real Housewives of Atlanta", Sheree's friends set her up on a date with a "psychiatrist" (she said psychiatrist, not psychologist, on the show) named Dr. And he's been fired from jobs and outed as a fraud as far back as 2005. The "doctor" Sheree Whitfield went out on a date with on last night's episode is a fake doctor. As expected, the drama of the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" is starting up already.