{"id":539822,"date":"2026-03-16T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539822\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:26:07","slug":"wendi-mcclendon-covey-missed-bridesmaids-oscars-reunion-over-neck-lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539822\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendi McClendon-Covey Missed Bridesmaids Oscars Reunion Over Neck Lift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tActress <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/wendi-mcclendon-covey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wendi-mcclendon-covey\" data-tag=\"wendi-mcclendon-covey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wendi McClendon-Covey<\/a> is being characteristically blunt about why she did not take part in Sunday\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/bridesmaids\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bridesmaids\" data-tag=\"bridesmaids\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bridesmaids<\/a>\u201d reunion on the live Academy Awards telecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI had a neck lift last week because I\u2019m tired of looking like a melting candle. So I had to skip the Academy Awards. No drama. Everything is fine,\u201d the actress and comedian posted Sunday night on Instagram. She said she spoke out in response to queries flowing in to her direct messages. The post included a close up photo of McClendon-Covey\u2019s face with what appeared to be medical tape wrapped around her head and under her chin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe \u201cBridesmaids\u201d segment brought together stars of the 2011 Paul Feig comedy \u2014 including Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Kristin Wiig, Rose Byrne and Ellie Kemper \u2014 for a feel-good segment during the Oscar telecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMcClendon-Covey, who stars in the NBC comedy \u201cSt. Denis Medical\u201d and is known for her starring role as the matriarch on the long-running ABC comedy \u201cThe Goldbergs,\u201d would have been a natural addition to the ensemble brought together for the moment. McClendon-Covey closed her Instagram post with a happy-face emoji blowing kisses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe responses to the post included one from her \u201cSt. Denis Medical\u201d co-star Alison Tolman. \u201cCongratulations queen, I cannot WAIT to see her. (Your neck),\u201d Tolman wrote. Former \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d star Cheri Oteri cheered McClendon-Covey on: \u201cRockstar anywhere anytime,\u201d Oteri wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cBridesmaids\u201d was a raunchy comedy hit for Feig and producer Judd Apatow. It helped expand the boundaries for female adult comedies at the box office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t(Pictured: Wendi McClendon-Covey, third from right, in 2011\u2019s \u2018Bridesmaids\u2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actress Wendi McClendon-Covey is being characteristically blunt about why she did not take part in Sunday\u2019s \u201cBridesmaids\u201d reunion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[125572,49,48,75,18744,210901],"class_list":{"0":"post-539822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bridesmaids","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-oscars","13":"tag-wendi-mcclendon-covey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}