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Anthony Anderson interviewed Lindsay Lohan in a deeply creepy means.
When he was in his 30s and the actress was 17, the actor interviewed her.
The jokes within the interview took a number of bizarre, sexual turns.
So bizarre that the clip is circulating on social media, with individuals asking why this gross alternate ever occurred.
Appearing instead discuss present host in 2003, 33-year-old Anthony Anderson sat and spoke with 17-year-old Lindsay Lohan. (Picture Credit score: MTV)
Anthony Anderson interviewed a teenage Lindsay Lohan
In 2003, Anthony Anderson crammed in for Sharon Osbourne to interview Lindsay Lohan on The Sharon Osbourne Present on the December 16 episode.
On the time, Lohan was solely 17. Imply Ladies hadn’t even come out but.
She was nonetheless greatest identified for The Dad or mum Entice and (the then-very-new) Freaky Friday, and was years away from her occasion woman repute or her newer motherhood.
In the course of the interview, Anderson requested Lohan about her residence life.
She shared that she had moved in together with her buddy, fellow actress Raven-Symoné.
“Both of you are beautiful women. Both of you are young and have your individual styles,” the actor praised.
Anderson then requested: “What gentlemen will be at the new pad with you and Raven-Symoné?”
Actor Anthony Anderson poses backstage on August 23, 2003. (Photograph Credit score: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Photos)
‘I’m unlawful, for those who are outdated’
“No one. I don’t have a boyfriend,” Lindsay Lohan clarified to Anthony Anderson.
As you may see within the social media clip, Anderson then turned that to the viewers, quipping:
“She’s single, but looking!”
Lohan identified that she was solely 17, reminding everybody: “I’m illegal, for people that are old.”
Actress Lindsay Lohan attends Macy’s and Teen Folks’s “Freaky Friday” Mom/Daughter Vogue Present August 6, 2003. (Photograph Credit score: Matt Peyton/Getty Photos for Disney)
“Some men like them young. We ain’t gonna mention no names, but I’m one of them,” Anderson joked.
Later within the interview, he instructed the viewers “right now, we’re about to get our freak on” and scooched nearer to Lohan on the sofa, wrapping his arms round her.
That was a slipshod reference to Freaky Friday. However actually not acceptable.
Even when he had not been a grown man in his 30s, however particularly uncomfortable given his age and hers.
Anthony Anderson attends the Los Angeles premiere of Amazon MGM Studios “G20” on March 27, 2025. (Photograph Credit score: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Photos)
How is Anthony Anderson responding to the backlash?
Naturally, individuals on social media are skewering Anthony Anderson over the creepy Lindsay Lohan video.
“This interview was clearly intended as comedy. He regrets if the humor was in poor taste and maintains the utmost respect for Lindsay,” his rep instructed Leisure Weekly in a stern assertion.
After all, people on social media are fast to level out that Anthony was accused of rape only a 12 months after this interview. That’s an upsetting subject in any context.
It’s true that it was typically thought-about “normal” to talk in a flirtatious method to minors throughout interviews again within the day.
It famously occurred to Britney Spears. That doesn’t make it not gross! It’s okay to acknowledge that some issues are gross.
