Actor Alec Baldwin's wife faces growing backlash over accusations she faked her Spanish heritage.
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A real firearm,
Rachel
Rachel, thank you Griff
this morning is there is growing
backlash for Hilaria or Hillary.
However, you want to say it over
accusations. She faked her
spanish heritage,
newly unearthed yearbook, photos
showing Hilaria graduating from
POSH Massachusetts Prep School a
year before she claimed that she
moved here from Spain.
Will he is span? I cant.
She is also listed by her real
name: Hillary Hayward, Thomas
CEO, a hispanic recalling expert
and joins you now to it will
react
Lily. Welcome to the show.
How did Hillary think she could
get away with this when there
are yearbook, pictures and all
these other documents in the age
of social media?
You know, will Rachel recall
this. It was a matter of time
when this was going to happen.
You cant do this.
There is too much open
information, public information,
its going to catch up with you.
You know what
I have got to give her some
credit.
She picked up on the cultural
equity of all things latino and
latina, and she wanted a little
bit of it,
its back firing in a big way.
I feel sorry for her now
Rachel. It is
this is now infamous clip of
hers from the today show
it very few ingreed yents we
have tomatoes, we have. How do
you say in Epg? Be English could
cucumber
cucumbers
Rachel? She forgot how to say.
Could you couple cumbers?
My mom is from Spain.
That accent is not very, you
know, can a stillian speaking
spanish speaking English.
If you listen to a real
Spaniard,
will they sound like Penelope
Cruz?
I know we were not paying
attention but again its going
to catch up with you at some
point
once again, to put it in
perspective, maybe having an
accent sometimes for those of us
that are immigrants trying to
get rid of it when you get here,
but then the other way around
people like to say highest paid
television actress. So maybe
there is something here,
but you are right.
We should have picked it up
earlier and good for all those
detectives on social media that
now are outing this out and we
are setting the record straight
and she is not alone in
trying to adapt this.
We have seen this with
politicians like Beto, trying to
change his name and pretend like.
Maybe he had some hispanic
heritage too for advantage,
I know.
Well, I guess the name you
know for those of us that are
native spanish speakers. You do
pick it up um huh. That must be
one of us.
It goes beyond that
dont. Just patron nice me sound,
like me,
show me you care now. I have a
challenge for Hilaria.
If you love so much spanish
culture. Give us some is lines in
Spanish, because I have yet to
hear her speak a full sentence.
Rachel end this with saying
that you think legit Latinas
should be flattered by
this are in the era where
everybody gets so overly
sensitive about everything. I
think imitation is at greatest
form of flattery,
so lets take it own it, but
she should no longer be listed
on those latina magazines best
dressed or anything like that.
It should be you Rachel,
laughter
Rachel or you lily.
I lobbied to make this entire
show, because I love this topic.
I think its hilarious, but we
are so happy that you joined us.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-30.