Charo admitted that she finds Hilaria Baldwin’s Spanish heritage scandal “funny”.
The 70-year-old Spanish-American actress told Page Six that she had been trying to perfect her English all her life, so she did not understand why Baldwin, 37, was “obsessed” with her Spanish accent.
“I spend all my life English like you,” Charo said. ‘I was hoping [be] a sophisticated American and I was born in Murcia, Spain, where they have a very strong Castilian accent. ‘
“It’s probably Hilaria’s obsession,” Charo thought. “I want to speak the best English, because after so many years in America, no one knows what I’m talking about.”
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Baldwin exploded in December when it was discovered that she was not actually born in Spain, as she implied, and instead was born and bred in Boston, Mass.
Charo (R) has reacted to Hilaria Baldwin’s Spanish heritage scandal.
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‘In the case of Hilaria, she must be [so] obsessed with everything Spanish – the tradition, flamenco – that she really went to the training and managed to do it very well indeed, “Charo thinks.
Baldwin was also criticized for allegedly dropping a Spanish accent. The bilingual mother of five’s accent has changed markedly over the years when she appeared on TV.
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After the news broke, Alec Baldwin’s wife also revealed that her real name was Hillary.
“Yes, I’m a white girl, my family is white … Europe has a lot of white people in it. I’m ethnically a mixture of many, many things,” she said on social media.
Hilaria Baldwin has been criticized for revealing that she was born in Spain when she was born and raised in Boston.
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Charo said she got a laugh out of the situation. “There’s nothing wrong with it making her happy. I think it’s funny. I think it’s just funny,” she said.
In an interview with The New York Times, Baldwin tried to correct some of the misconceptions about how she presented herself.
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“The things I shared about myself are very clear,” Baldwin said. “I was born in Boston. I spent time in Boston and Spain. My family now lives in Spain. I moved to New York when I was 19 and have lived here ever since. For me, I feel like I have ten years. long shared the story over and over again. And now it seems like it’s not enough. “
Fox News’ Tyler McCarthy contributed to this report.