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Alec Baldwin Explains His Tweet About Gillian Anderson

Actor deactivates Twitter account after backlash about his comment on her switching accents

(Newser) - Alec Baldwin is off Twitter again, and once again it involves the controversy about his wife's heritage. But this time, it's a little more indirect. After CNN talked to actress Gillian Anderson, who was raised in the US and Britain, about how she slips in and out of...

Mystery Surrounds Arrival of Alec, Hilaria Baldwin's 6th Baby

Their fifth child together was just born Sept. 8

(Newser) - Alec and Hilaria Baldwin have welcomed a sixth baby to their family, a source confirms to People , hours after Hilaria posted a photo to Instagram showing herself with the couple's five known children, plus a newborn. The news set off rampant speculation on Twitter, considering she just gave birth...

Baldwin Takes Himself Off Twitter
Baldwin 
Takes
Himself 
Off Twitter
Jan 19, 2021 12:56 PM CST

Baldwin Takes Himself Off Twitter

Actor leaves platform 'for now' after his wife has been criticized online

(Newser) - After weeks of online debate over his wife's ethnicity , Alec Baldwin has decided to step off the platform, though apparently not for good. "Twitter is like a party where everyone is screaming," the actor tweeted Monday. "Not much of a party. Goodbye for now." Debate...

Hilaria Baldwin Says Uproar Has Been 'Surreal'

'Who is to say what you're allowed to absorb and not absorb growing up?'

(Newser) - Hilaria Baldwin is not as Spanish as people believed she was —and she's not sure why people are making such a big deal out of it. Baldwin, who grew up in Boston with American parents but speaks with a Spanish accent, tells the New York Times that she...

Alec Baldwin Reacts in Very Alec Baldwin Way to Hilaria Uproar

Has strong words for commenters on social media

(Newser) - As you probably guessed he would, Alec Baldwin went ahead and got involved in the social media fracas over wife Hilaria's heritage. First, he posted a Mark Twain quote on Instagram reading, "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes....

Hilaria Baldwin on Accusations: 'Yes, I Am a White Girl'

Alec Baldwin's wife, born 'Hillary,' says she grew up immersed in both American, Spanish cultures

(Newser) - Hilaria Baldwin celebrated the final weekend of 2020 by defending her origin story after recent accusations that she's been "posing as a Spanish person for years," as the Daily Beast puts it. The 36-year-old author and ex-yoga instructor, who's married to actor Alec Baldwin, posted a...

Amy Schumer's Baldwin Joke Keeps Going

After first controversy, she pretends photo of Alec, Hilaria, and their kids is her own

(Newser) - It's a safe bet Amy Schumer didn't expect a jokey online post involving Hilaria Baldwin, wife of Alec, would cause such a firestorm. It began earlier this week, when 36-year-old Hilaria, a yoga instructor, posted a photo of herself , clad in underwear, holding new son Eduardo. As a...

SNL's Take on Town Halls: "Hallmark Movie, Alien Autopsy'

Jim Carrey and Alec Baldwin kick things of

(Newser) - If you missed President Trump and Joe Biden's dueling town halls on Thursday night, Saturday Night Live has you covered. Its cold open began by "presenting a rebroadcast of those town halls the way most Americans watched them ... flipping back and forth, trying to decide between a Hallmark...

This Would Have Been Big Birthday for John Lennon

Paul McCartney posts tribute to his fellow Beatle's 80th

(Newser) - It's hard enough to wrap our heads around the fact that John Lennon was killed nearly 40 years ago. Now another fact to make our jaws drop: He would've been 80 years old Friday. And as tributes circulate on the internet , one "heartfelt message" in particular is...

Baldwin Defends SNL Jokes About Trump's Infection

He says show wouldn't mock president if he was 'truly, gravely ill'

(Newser) - Saturday Night Live is taking some flak for joking about President Trump's illness during its season opener—but Alec Baldwin says the show would have gone easier on the president if he had been "truly, gravely ill." "We only have the words of the White House...

SNL Ends a Strange Season From Home
SNL Ends a 
Strange Season
May 10, 2020 8:17 AM CDT

SNL Ends a Strange Season

Kristen Wiig, Tina Fey drop in for Mother's Day episode

(Newser) - Saturday Night Live ended the strangest of its 45 seasons with another at-home episode, this one kicking off with Alec Baldwin as President Trump addressing the "class of COVID-19. I'm so honored to be your validictator." "There are so many exciting new jobs out there,...

Alec, Hilaria Baldwin Expecting Baby No. 5

Hilaria Baldwin reveals she's pregnant again after 2 miscarriages

(Newser) - The Baldwins are expecting their fifth baby together, Hilaria Baldwin announced on Instagram on Monday. Hilaria, 36, and Alec Baldwin, 62, are also parents to a 6-year-old girl and three boys, ages 4, 3, and almost 2; Alec's daughter with Kim Basinger, Ireland Baldwin, is now 24, People reports....

SNL Blocks Trump From NATO Cool Kids' Table

He has to go sit with Latvia

(Newser) - It was a very Cold Open for Alec Baldwin's President Trump on Saturday Night Live, with the mocked American president trying and failing to get a seat at the cafeteria table with the same NATO cool kids caught on video earlier this week mocking him . The show brought in...

Latest SNL Rotten With Cameos
Latest SNL
Rotten With
Cameos 
Nov 24, 2019 7:11 AM CST

Latest SNL Rotten With Cameos

Will Ferrell as guest-host was just the start

(Newser) - No shortage of celebrities romped through Studio 8H on Saturday Night Live's latest episode, beginning with guest-host Will Ferrell returning to his old stomping grounds in an opening monologue with Ryan Reynolds in the audience and Tracy Morgan making an appearance to proclaim "I suckled from (Ferrell's)...

Alec Baldwin Sues NYC Parking Rage Accuser

He says man's assault claim is 'objectively false'

(Newser) - Alec Baldwin has filed a defamation lawsuit against a man who says Baldwin hit him in the face during an argument over a New York City parking space. Baldwin wrote in his lawsuit that contractor Wojciech Cieszkowski's claim that he was violently assaulted by the actor is "objectively...

SNL Heads to a Trump Rally
SNL Heads to a Trump Rally 
Oct 27, 2019 7:21 AM CDT

SNL Heads to a Trump Rally

And Chance the Rapper hosts 'incredible' episode

(Newser) - Saturday Night Live's Cold Open was set against the backdrop of a rally for President Trump, and had a little something for everyone: an escaped ISIS extremist, Bill Clinton, Lindsey Graham, Mark Zuckerberg, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Open, which managed to largely refrain from its habit...

Alec Baldwin Got Scammed in Statue of Liberty Tour

Actor livid after he says he and his family were tricked about tour that really went to New Jersey

(Newser) - Give us your tired, your poor, your disgruntled celebrity tourist. Although he's a native Long Islander, Alec Baldwin revealed Monday he'd been taken by what he calls a Big Apple "scam," NBC New York reports. Baldwin posted to Instagram a picture of a ticket he and...

SNL Is Gleefully Back
SNL Is Gleefully Back 
Sep 29, 2019 7:13 AM CDT

SNL Is Gleefully Back

Show goes to town on impeachment inquiry, election

(Newser) - If you thought Saturday Night Live would politely ignore President Trump's impeachment inquiry in the premiere of its 45th season, well ... you'd be out of your ever-loving mind, sparky. Alec Baldwin returned Saturday night as the commander in chief in question, NBC reports, frantically manning the phones to...

Ireland Baldwin Gets Back at Dad Over That Voicemail

Alec's daughter participates in the Comedy Central roast of the actor

(Newser) - Remember the infamous voicemail Alec Baldwin left his then 11-year-old daughter back in 2007, the one in which he calls her a "thoughtless little pig?" Well Ireland Baldwin got a little revenge by participating in the Comedy Central roast of her father, which airs Sunday night. You can watch...

SNL Channels Its Inner Queen
SNL Channels Its Inner Queen
May 19, 2019 7:41 AM CDT

SNL Channels Its Inner Queen

Alec Baldwin returns as President Trump, cast is havin' such a good time in Cold Open

(Newser) - Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live as President Trump, only this time he brought his inner rock star, channeling Queen in a parody of "Don't Stop Me Now." He was joined by Cecily Strong as Melania Trump, Beck Bennett as Mike Pence, Aidy Bryant as Sarah...

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