It is, how you say. . . Hilaria-ous!
A spy tells us that Hilaria Baldwin — who once blamed a “coordinated mob” for questioning her ever-evolving accent — showed she can laugh at the controversy during a Valentine’s-themed lunch for Gurus Magazine.
A source tells Page Six Hilaria Baldwin may finally be finding some humor in her Spanish accent controversy. Getty Images
A spy tells us that when the mag’s founder, stylist Derek Warburton, stood up to thank guests for coming, he couldn’t resist a playful jab at the former “Dancing With the Stars” contestant.
“Hilaria said ‘thank you’ in her signature faux Spanish accent and Derek joked back, ‘I love you whatever accent they think you use,’ which had about 50 people breaking out in laughter,” says the spy.
We hear designer Nicole Miller, Sutton Stracke from “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” publicist Anna Rothschild, and former “America’s Next Top Model” judge Nolé Marin attended the event at Maison Close.
A source tells Page Six that Derek Warburton playfully called out Baldwin’s accent in front of guests like Nicole Miller. Getty Images
Baldwin has blamed on “code-switching,” as well as ADHD and dyslexia for her changing accent. Janet Mayer/INSTARimages.com
In 2020 social media began noticing some inconsistencies in Alec Baldwins wife’s personal story and her accent.
Videos circulated online of her speaking with a thick affect, like during a “Today Show” cooking segment where she appeared to forget how to say the word “cucumber.”
“How do you say in English?” the mom, who grew up as Hillary Hayward-Thomas in Boston, asked the host.
She once famously forgot how to say “cucumber” on the “Today Show.” Instagram / @hilariabaldwin
In her book, “Manual Not Included,” Baldwin blamed the accent mix-up on “code-switching,” as well as ADHD and dyslexia.
“And these [diagnoses] greatly impact my speech, my reading, my listening, my focus, my memory and my self-confidence,” she wrote in her book.
She called the social media users who called out the tics “a coordinated mob.”
“I spent some of my childhood in Boston, some of my childhood in Spain,” she explained in 2020 following the uproar. “My family, my brother, my parents, my nephew, everybody is over there in Spain now [while] I’m here.”
However, as Page Six reported, Hilaria’s parents didn’t move to Mallorca until 2011, when she was already 27 years old.
She talked about the issue in her book and on her reality show with Alec Baldwin and their seven children.
“I love English, I also love Spanish, and when I mix the two it doesn’t make me inauthentic, and when I mix the two, that makes me normal,” she said in a confessional scene on her TLC reality show, “The Baldwins.”
“I’d be lying if I said [the controversy] didn’t make me sad and it didn’t hurt and it didn’t put me in dark places,” the mom of seven, 41, added.