Alec Baldwin is Taking a Break from Twitter
by EG
Alec Baldwin probably won't be impersonating Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live much any more, and he might not be doing another very Trump-ish thing--tweeting--either. Unlike Trump, though, Baldwin's exile from Twitter is going to be self-imposed. Baldwin announced this week, on Twitter, that he is taking a break from Twitter. This comes as the actor has been defending his wife from users of the platform who have called attention to Hilaria Baldwin's misleading comments about her nationality. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
Alec Baldwin is taking a Twitter hiatus on the heels of his wife Hilaria’s Spanish heritage brouhaha.
“Twitter is like a party where everyone is screaming. Not much of a party,” the irascible “30 Rock” alum tweeted Monday. “Goodbye for now.”
Amid the headline-grabbing scandal, Hilaria, 36, was forced to admit that despite speaking with a questionable accent and claiming she was born in Spain, she’s actually just a “white girl” from Boston.
The popular yoga guru, who changed her name from Hillary, had failed to correct myriad articles over the years that said she was born on the island of Mallorca.
Hilaria has tearfully taken to social media and the press to whine it was everyone else’s fault for reading into her actions — and that she feels a connection to Spain because she used to visit the country as a kid and her family now lives on the Mediterranean isle.
Alec, 62, who tied the knot with Hilaria in 2012, has stood behind her 100 percent during the controversy.
In an Instagram video, the “Saturday Night Live” actor said that “when you love somebody, you wanna defend them” and urged viewers to “consider the source.”
In a previous post on the platform, he wrote: “You have to kind of hack your way through the debris of Twitter. Twitter is just a vast orchard of crap.”
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