DeAndre’s story spread rapidly across the internet, eventually finding its way to Ellen DeGeneres. The comedian invited the high school senior onto her show on January 29, where he further explained his side of the story, discussing his family’s Trinidadian heritage and the perceived hypocrisy of not being allowed to have long hair while girls in the school are allowed to have hair extending far below their ears — the stated limit for male hair at DeAndre’s high school, Barbers Hill's. and Gigi Hadid, Joe had no other choice but to answer. The question of redemption made me think about “cancel culture.”BTK: "You will stumble and fall, you will experience both disaster and triumph, sometimes in the same day. But it's really important to remember that like a hangover, neither triumphs nor disasters last forever."—Helen Mirren