Emily Blunt is under fire for a resurfaced interview in which she referred to a Chili’s waitress as “enormous,” as outraged Twitter users are now branding her “fatphobic.”
Emily Blunt is under fire for a resurfaced interview in which she referred to a Chili’s waitress as “enormous.”
The actress, 40, was a guest on the UK’s “The Jonathan Ross Show” in September 2012 when she decided to share a story about how she dined at one of the chain restaurant’s locations in Louisiana while she was in town filming the movie “Looper.”
“The girl who was serving me was enormous,” Blunt told the namesake host. “I think she got freebie meals at Chili’s.”
Though Ross, 62, chimed in to note that there’s “nothing wrong with that,” he had previously quipped that “when you go to Chili’s, you can see why so many of [their] American friends are enormous.”
Mimicking the server’s Southern drawl, Bunt said the woman asked her, “Did anyone ever tell you you look a lot like Emily Blunt?”
“And I said, ‘I have heard that, yes,’” she recalled responding, to which the staffer then asked, “Are you Emily Blunt?”
After the “Devil Wears Prada” star confirmed her identity, she said the woman shrieked in excitement, “What are y’all doin here?!”
The cringeworthy moment has come back to haunt Blunt, as outraged Twitter users are now branding her “fatphobic.
