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There are only a few secrets and techniques within the age of social media.
Actually, the times of blind objects — gossip tales during which key particulars are revealed, however the names are stored below wraps — are principally a factor of the previous. It’s simply too straightforward these days for newbie on-line detectives to piece collectively the entire image.
And that’s a lesson that Reese Witherspoon may be studying the exhausting method this week.
Reese Witherspoon attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Picture by Frazer Harrison/Getty Photographs)
Reese Says a Bit Too A lot
The difficulty started throughout a joint interview with Reese and Will Ferrell.
The co-stars are selling their new film, You’re Cordially Invited, and so they sat down for a dialog during which Reese would possibly’ve revealed greater than she supposed to whereas sharing the story of a former pal who now not speaks to her.
“It literally haunts me,” Witherspoon instructed Ferrell in a bit that was revealed in Individuals on Thursday.
“So this friend of mine — who I didn’t really know that well, but she was a very serious, proper actress — she asked me to give her an award.”
Kate Winslet and Reese Witherspoon current on stage on the 88th Oscars on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Picture credit score ought to learn MARK RALSTON/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Reese went on to elucidate that she “had never been” to that specific awards ceremony, and she or he mistakenly “thought was like a roast.”
“So I got up and I roasted her,” she recalled.
Sadly, “the tone was British and elegant and classy. And I was like, ‘Remember the time we got laser hair removal?!’” The joke, it appears, went over like a lead balloon.
“We’re not friends anymore. I’m not even kidding — we’re not friends anymore. I think she doesn’t like me anymore,” Witherspoon went on.
Reese Witherspoon and Kate Winslet arrive on the sixty fourth Annual Golden Globe Awards on the Beverly Hilton on January 15, 2007 in Beverly Hills, California. (Picture by Frazer Harrison/Getty Photographs)
“I thought it was so funny, and it was just, I had the wrong audience. It was pretty bad. I’m not even kidding, she doesn’t talk to me anymore. Oh, well.”
Has the Offended Brit Id Been Revealed?
Now, the movie star gossip website Simply Jared is reporting {that a} bunch of web detectives have discovered that the irate former pal is none apart from Kate Winslet.
They level out that Reese introduced Kate with an artist of the yr award on the 2007 BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards.
Actresses Kate Winslet and Reese Witherspoon communicate onstage through the 88th Annual Academy Awards on the Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Picture by Kevin Winter/Getty Photographs)
“I always wanted to be a European movie star, wear giant sunglasses, elaborate neck scarves, smoke hand-rolled cigarettes and have savoir-faire and gravitas,” Reese quipped to the group that fateful day.
“Imagine my good fortune when Kate Winslet moved into my neighborhood, rang my doorbell and said, ‘Darling, Sam [Mendes] is off shooting, and I believe our children are the same age. Could they possibly have a play date and oh, by the way, it’s almost 9 o’clock and I’ve had nothing to do drink, do you have any wine?’”
Witherspoon later joked that she wished to inform extra tales of her adventures with Kate, however they have been “too bawdy or tawdry or drunken to tell,” together with the time they “contemplated laser hair removal.”
There are different theories floating round, with some claiming that Reese was referring to Nicole Kidman (unlikely, as Kidman is Australian, and Reese described the award present vibe as “very British), however Kate looks like the obvious wrongdoer.
And now that she’s been dragged into this little mini-controversy, Kate has another reason to be indignant at Reese!
