Comedian Joe Piscopo told America’s Newsroom on Wednesday that he welcomed the story of Hilaria Baldwin, who is facing a major setback because she revealed she was born in Boston, Massachusetts and not Spain as she had previously implied do not have.
“My view is different,” the former SNL star said. ‘I welcome it that way … It’s a lot of fun. It’s so wonderful. ‘
He explained that he enjoyed the strange saga because the news was ‘crazy’.
“Look at 2020,” Piscopo said, referring to “all the negativity,” especially amid the coronavirus pandemic, which claimed more than 340,000 lives in the United States as of Wednesday, according to information from Johns Hopkins University. provided.
He pointed out that Baldwin had spoken with a Spanish accent in the past “and she does not come from Spain.”
“You have to love it, you have to appreciate it and embrace it with all the bad news out there,” the radio host said.
But not everyone accepted the story.
People’s Ale Russian wrote about her own experience on Monday in a first-person essay entitled “Why the Hilaria Baldwin Scandal Is Painful for Immigrants – Including Me.”
“What Hilaria did is not funny: it’s a slap in the face,” Russian wrote.
On Tuesday, The New York Post published a headline entitled, “Oh, Alec Baldwin, you need to know more than you allow.”
Alec Baldwin still stood by his wife and renounced critics who claimed she had misrepresented the extent of her Spanish heritage.
The 62-year-old actor and Donald Trump impersonator shared a quote from Mark Twain on his Instagram on Tuesday after the story surrounding the 36-year-old yoga / wellness expert dominated the news reports a day earlier.
“A lie can travel halfway through the world while the truth puts on its shoes,” reads the quote.
Over the weekend, Hilaria Baldwin responded to a tweet saying: “You should admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade – long experience of imitating a Spanish person.” The tweet has since been removed.
However, it sparked a firestorm of rediscovered tracks and interviews where Hilaria, whose real name is Hillary Hayword-Thomas, suggested she come from Spain and move to the United States for college. 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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“It’s very surreal,” she said. “There’s nothing I do wrong, and I think there’s a difference between hiding and creating a boundary.”
Numerous stores reported that she was born in Mallorca, Spain, but that she was born in Boston.
She explained on a podcast in April 2020, “I moved here [to America] when I was 19 to go to NYU from … my family lives in Spain, they live in Mallorca. ‘The bilingual mother of five of the accents also changed noticeably over the years when she appeared on TV. In one amusing 2015 clip from ‘Today’, “she apparently forgets the English word for” cucumber. “
Meanwhile, her CAA speaker page, Wikipedia and IMDB page have previously listed her native country as Spain. The talent agency has since removed any mention of her birthplace, while the latter has made two corrections. In her latest interview, Baldwin blamed false reporting, saying she had never actively presented her legacy.
She says she is bilingual, for example, and often speaks in different accents, depending on her mood. When it comes to articles and bios that mistakenly call her a Spanish man, she notes that she does not read articles about herself, and that she was therefore unaware that her ethnicity was misreported.
As for the ‘cucumber’ moment, she says she was simply nervous about being on live TV and had a ‘brain drain’, a colloquial language for when someone forgets something basic.
Piscopo stressed on Wednesday that he loves “every minute of” the story.
“We get offended too easily,” he said. “Why did she do that? I do not know. I think it was the subject of a sketch on ‘SNL’, I just say.”
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“Please do not take offense, just accept the story that has something to do with politics or the pandemic,” Piscopo continued.
Fox News’s Tyler McCarthy and Julius Young contributed to this report.