In an age where people can’t wait to shame celebrities for things they said and did a decade ago, it’s amazing that this clip of Emily Blunt calling a waitress in Louisiana ‘enormous’ in 2012 has only now been dug up and recirculated 11 years later:
— v (@ViralThingz) October 20, 2023
Imagine being that excited to meet Emily Blunt during your work shift only to then see her call you fat on TV? Brutal stuff. Naturally, Emily Blunt has now come out with an apology via People magazine:
“I’m appalled that I would say something so insensitive, hurtful, and unrelated to whatever story I was trying to tell on a talk show.”
I’ve always considered myself someone who wouldn’t dream of upsetting anyone so whatever possessed me to say anything like this in that moment is unrecognisable to me or anything I stand for.
And yet it happened, and I said it and I’m so sorry for any hurt caused. I was absolutely old enough to know better.”
Well I guess that’s fair enough. Yeah, it was a mean thing to say and a totally unnecessary detail to add to the story she was telling, but I also think she found it flattering that the waitress recognised her and just wanted to lowkey show off her southern US accent on the Jonathan Ross Show. All in all, hardly a cancellable offence, is it?
For the time Tom Cruise told Emily Blunt to ‘stop being such a p****’ on set, click HERE.
