Neil Patrick Harris has apologised after someone dug up a photo of an Amy Winehouse’s corpse cake he commissioned for a party he threw months after her death.
The How I Met Your Mother star hosted the party with husband David Burtka in 2011, where this horrifyingly realistic corpse buffet platter was introduced to guests…
The card says it’s made of ‘beef ribs, pulled pork, chicken sausage in a spicy bbq sauce’, which sounds like the weirdest cake flavour ever but not the primary reason it rubbed everyone up the wrong way. I mean I love a bit of dark humour but making a meat platter modelled on the rotting corpse of a recently-dead celebrity is perhaps a bit OTT. Harris caught some flack for this back in 2011 but it mostly flew under the radar. Well 10+ years later, writer Ashley Reese sent the image viral again alongside this message:
I cannot believe how many very online people over the age of 25 are just now finding out about Neil Patrick Harris’s disgusting Amy Winehouse cake.
Yea Neil Patrick Harris quite literally had a cake mimicking Amy Winehouse’s corpse for Halloween soon after she died. I’ve loathed that man ever since.
Neil Patrick Harris apologised via Entertainment Weekly:
A photo recently resurfaced from a Halloween-themed party my husband and I hosted 11 years ago.
It was regrettable then, and it remains regrettable now. Amy Winehouse was a once-in-a-generation talent, and I’m sorry for any hurt this image caused.
Well, fair enough really. We all know how much people love digging up old celebrity indiscretions in an attempt to ruin their lives/careers, but I’m not sure what else Neil Patrick Harris can do except apologise again. Still, pretty daft to think an Amy Winehouse corpse cake would be a good idea, even 11 years ago and definitely so soon after her death.
Never forget:
For five of the best Amy Winehouse unreleased songs, click HERE. What a talent.
