Or wait. Is the Tweet just a Colbert joke? On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 8:21 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
> Saw this Tweet just now: > > https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/1261121624083968001?s=21 > > About 90% of my follows on Twitter are journalists, scientists and > politicians. One of the few celebrities I follow, on Twitter and Instagram, > is Chrissy Teigen, who is the absolute boss of the internet. I had never to > my memory heard of Alison Roman until last week, when CT tweeted that she > was bummed about what some woman chef said about her in some off brand > internet interview. That led me down the rabbit hole, reading the article, > Roman’s initial aggressive restatement and defense, the overwhelming > negative Twitter response (why do people keep thinking they can come for > Chrissy Teigen?) and the inevitable apology, first half-assed, then > faux-sincere. The apology phase was particularly inevitable because, as > Chrissy pointed out in her response, but apparently Roman was not initially > aware of, Teigen had signed on to be one of the producers of a TV show > Roman wanted to do. > > I will be asleep before this show airs here in CA tonight, but will check > it out in the morning. Particularly interested in if Colbert interviews > her, and if so if they address this (and how could they not?). I assume > that for most people, like me, if they have heard of her at all it is > because of this episode, or if it is just a happy talk cooking segment. > Would also like to know if they booked her before the incident, or because > of it. > > The comments to the tweet announcing her visit give a flavor of how > popular Roman is right now. Not a great look for Colbert to look like he is > trying to rehab her. Would be interesting though if he manages to have a > real conversation, without either defending her (or trying to make her look > like a victim of internet bullying) or piling on, but exploring what her > original point was (which I still don’t understand, it seems to be > something like: “everyone who tries to monetize their cookery is a sell out > late capitalist whore, except me”). Also, whatever her point was, why did > she choose to make it by picking out of nowhere two Asian women? There > aren’t enough white men in the celebrity cooking world to go after? And is > Kondo even in the same Space? > > If you don’t know, but still want to know, about the bru ha ha, see > Roman‘s: > https://twitter.com/fromedome/status/1258513965937614848?s=21 and > following) and Teigen’s: > https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1258904780090425344?s=21 Twitter > posts. To her credit CT was pretty much one and done with it. > > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYL6%2BJ6wSHavgLz_Z%2B1zEQeCxPRUO_3ayHgW4eUGVgcu9A%40mail.gmail.com.
