“I think she got free meals at Chili’s,” Emily Blunt said of the waitress.
The Internet is once again outraged. Who is to blame this time?
Behold: Emily Blunt is having her turn in the spotlight after a resurfaced interview shows the actress mocking a waitress by calling her “huge.”
In September 2012, the 40-year-old British actress was invited to The Jonathan Ross Show where he decided to share a story about how he had dinner at a Chili’s in Louisiana while he was filming Looper.
(Emily Blunt) YouTube
“The girl who served me was huge,” Blunt told the host. “I think she got free meals at Chili’s.”
Jonathan Ross, 62, chimed in, saying “there’s nothing wrong with that.” However, moments before, the host said, “When you go to Chili’s, you can see why so many of them [their] American friends are huge.”
(Jonathan Russ). Youtube
As Blunt recalled the experience, he imitated the waiter’s Southern accent while recounting how the woman asked him, “Has anyone ever told you that you look a lot like Emily Blunt?”
“And I said, ‘I’ve heard that, yeah,'” Blunt responded at the time. The waiter then asked, “Are you Emily Blunt?”
He jungle cruise The actress confirmed her identity, which led the woman to scream with excitement. “What are you doing here?!”
Who would have thought that years later, Blunt’s comments would give her a new “fatphobic” label? Twitter users are furious as they continue to lay down on the oppenheimer Actress.
“Emily Blunt being blatantly fatphobic wasn’t on my 2023 bingo card, but here we are,” one critic posted along with a clip of the moment.
“Ugh, damn, Emily Blunt, seriously, she was one of my favorite actresses, but she turns out to be a mean, fatphobic, unfunny girl who thinks it’s funny to point out the size of a server when it adds nothing to the story, it’s a shame,” added another dissident. before the post was deleted.
“JFC Emily, we were supporting you too. Smh,” another user responded.
Blunt has since issued a statement to Page Six, stating that he had his “jaw on the floor” when he watched the video.
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“I’m horrified that I said something so insensitive, hurtful and unrelated to the story I was trying to tell on a talk show,” Blunt said.
“I’ve always considered myself someone who wouldn’t think of upsetting anyone, so whatever prompted me to say something like this at that moment is unrecognizable to me or anything I represent,” Blunt continued. “And yet it happened, and I said it.”
Blunt, who is currently married to John Krasinski, apologized “for any harm caused” by her comments in the resurfaced video and acknowledges that she was “absolutely old enough to know better.”
Are fans right to criticize Emily Blunt for something she said over 10 years ago?
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