{"id":164175,"date":"2025-12-02T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/164175\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:38:10","slug":"cynthia-erivo-is-being-praised-for-how-she-included-blind-comedian-chris-mccausland-in-a-visual-conversation-during-her-appearance-on-graham-norton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/164175\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo Is Being Praised For How She Included Blind Comedian Chris McCausland In A Visual Conversation During Her Appearance On \u201cGraham Norton\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cynthia Erivo<\/a> is being praised for how she actively included British comedian Chris McCausland, who is blind, during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show.\"<\/p>\n

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For reference, both stars appeared on the BBC chat show in November 2024, alongside Nicole Kidman<\/a> and James Norton, but the clip resurfaced earlier this week in response to the cruel way that Cynthia has been treated on social media lately.\"<\/p>\n

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In case you missed it, last week, a viral video<\/a> called out how Cynthia is being depicted in comedic videos after she shielded her Wicked: For Good co-star Ariana Grande<\/a> from an aggressive fan<\/a> on a red carpet.\"The<\/p>\n

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The moment that Cynthia leaped to Ariana\u2019s defense has been distastefully mocked online, with Cynthia being ridiculed, villainized, and masculinized in memes and videos. The viral video noted: \u201cI don\u2019t like it at all. I feel like there\u2019s a lot of underlying tones of racism, misogyny\u2026 Why is it always men? Why are you making her very masculine?\u201d<\/p>\n

Needless to say, many were quick to agree with the message of this video, with SZA<\/a> even among those to comment, branding Cynthia\u2019s treatment as \u201cCLASSIC Misogynoir.\u201d It was also noticed that Ariana herself liked the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And while all of the online cruelty has been going on, Cynthia\u2019s fans have been trying to rise above the noise with positive posts about Cynthia, including this one about her and Chris.\"<\/p>\n

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If you didn\u2019t know, 48-year-old Chris was born with a hereditary condition called retinitis pigmentosa, which causes the light-sensitive cells of the retina to break down over time. His eyesight gradually worsened throughout his life, and he was registered blind by his 20s. He has said that there is nothing left of any useful sight, and described his current vision as like “looking through a bathroom window in the rain.\u201d\"<\/p>\n

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As all of the celebrities sat on Graham\u2019s sofa for the 2024 interview, Nicole noticed Cynthia\u2019s extremely long, intricately designed nails and expressed her disbelief as she asked: \u201cHow do you text with these?\u201d Cynthia explained that she used to have \u201cslightly shorter\u201d nails, but with her current ones, she uses her \u201cfingers\u201d to text.\"<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s amazing,\u201d Nicole replied. \u201cNo, I\u2019m amazed, because I\u2019ve had some nails on, and I can\u2019t do anything.\u201d And while Nicole was speaking, Cynthia realized that Chris couldn\u2019t see what she and Nicole were talking about, and immediately scooched across the couch and leaned over James so that Chris could feel her nails for himself.\"<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese are my nails,\u201d she gently told him, and as Chris felt them with his hands, he exclaimed: \u201cOh my goodness, oh, get out of here! Oh my goodness.\u201d\"<\/p>\n

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Sharing a screen recording of the video to X<\/a>, a Cynthia fan wrote: \u201cThe way she says \u2018Chris can’t see,\u2019 and immediately scoots over so he can be included is just who she is always being inclusive to others. Whenever I see positive comments about Cynthia I will always share it with others cause she deserves to see the kind words ppl say about her.\u201d\"<\/p>\n

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The screen recording also included a glimpse at the comments on the original YouTube video of the moment, many of which praised Cynthia for her effort to include Chris in the conversation. One comment that has been liked more than 75,000 times reads: \u201cThis is what we mean when we talk about taking the extra step to include others.\u201d\"\u201cHolding<\/p>\n

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\u201cHolding them out to feel was a nice thought,\u201d another popular comment adds, while somebody else wrote: \u201cAww the way she scoots over and lets him feel the nails to better understand what the conversation is actually about is so beautiful and very inclusive of her.\u201d<\/p>\n

One more pointed out: \u201cThese are the little gestures that show you how genuine a person is. It\u2019s something so small but I promise you there are many people who wouldn\u2019t have scooted over and done that.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the people of X echoed the sentiment seen in those comments, with the video instantly racking up thousands of likes, replies, and retweets as other users lauded Cynthia\u2019s gesture and called out how she is treated online.<\/p>\n

\u201ci literally love her so much i think she is so sweet and seems so fun to be around and everyone on the internet is fucking awful to her,\u201d one quote-tweet reads<\/a>, while another adds<\/a>: \u201cgod she\u2019s so lovely, she doesn\u2019t deserve any of the bullshit she\u2019s being put through.”<\/p>\n

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You can watch the video below, let me know your thoughts in the comments!<\/p>\n

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