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that’s been circulating the internet this week, the Oppenheimer star appeared on the The Jonathan Ross Show where she referred to a female server as “enormous,” prompting a wave of backlash from social media users.“I just need to address this head-on, as my jaw was on the floor watching this clip from 12 years ago,” Blunt told the outlet. “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.
“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.”Social media users on X, formerly Twitter, shared reactions to the British actor’s “blantantly fatphobic” comment from the resurfaced footage.
She made it seem like this was out of character for her when really a lot of us are fatphobic and we have to be real about that in order to change it.During the 2012 TV interview, Blunt began recounting her dining experience at a Chili’s restaurant in the small town of Thibodaux, Louisiana, while shooting her film, Looper, which premiered that same year.
“Well, the girl who was serving me was enormous,” Blunt replied. “I think she got freebie meals at Chili’s.”Blunt went on to share that the waitress recognised her during the meal and asked her what she was doing at the chain restaurant.
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