Jamie Lee Curtis Aims Barrage Of F-Bombs At Critics Choice Awards For Airing Mean Joke

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If you query Ariana DeBose’s singing skill, Jamie Lee Curtis will discover you and can kill you … with F-bombs.

On Sunday, presenter Bella Ramsey learn a reasonably mean-spirited joke off a teleprompter through the Critics Choice Awards that implied DeBose can’t sing.

Considering that the Broadway star gained an Oscar for her function as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s remake of “West Side Story,” DeBose’s followers have been outraged — together with Curtis.

The “Halloween” star, in a now-deleted submit on Instagram that was broadly reported on by a number of retailers, unleashed her disapproval.

“Are you fucking kidding me!” Curtis reportedly wrote. “Ariana DeBose is a queen.”

Curtis adopted that up with two hashtags that emphasised her fucking annoyance: “#backthefuckoff” and “#shutthefuckup.”

Jamie Lee Curtis (left) went to bat for actor AND singer Ariana DeBose.
Jamie Lee Curtis (left) went to bat for actor AND singer Ariana DeBose.
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It’s unclear if Curtis was referring to Ramsey or the Critics Choice Awards in her remarks or why Curtis deleted her submit. HuffPost has reached out to Curtis for remark however didn’t obtain a right away response.

On Sunday night time, Ramsey and Anthony Ramos have been presenting the award for Best Original Song and started a bit about how the nominees (together with “This Wish” from Disney’s “Wish,” sung by DeBose) have been break up between two kinds of singers. Half of the songs within the class have been “delivered by some of the most famous voices in the music industry,” corresponding to Billie Eilish, Lenny Kravitz and Dua Lipa.

“Then there are the actors who also think that they’re singers ― Jack Black, Ariana DeBose and Ken himself, Ryan Gosling,” Ramsey mentioned.

The digital camera then panned to DeBose, who seemed confused.

The state of affairs was fairly bizarre. Not solely was DeBose the butt of the joke, however Ramos, who was presenting the award with Ramsey, had labored with DeBose on Broadway in “Hamilton.” The joke additionally fell flat in its insults of Black, who has sung within the comedy duo Tenacious D because the Nineteen Nineties, and Gosling, who acquired his break singing and dancing on “The Mickey Mouse Club” and gained acclaim within the 2016 film musical “La La Land.” The finest music winner was “I’m Just Ken,” Gosling’s music from “Barbie.”

Yet regardless of the snarky joke, there doesn’t appear to be any dangerous blood between Ramsey and DeBose. The two have been photographed hugging on the Emmy Awards the following night time, in line with People.

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