{"id":772417,"date":"2026-09-16T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772417\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:46:15","slug":"ebanie-bridges-says-dont-hate-sydney-sweeney-as-boxer-slams-advert-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772417\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebanie Bridges says ‘don’t hate Sydney Sweeney’ as boxer slams advert ‘outrage’"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING, NUDITY Ebanie Bridges has defended Sydney Sweeney after the Hollywood actress received significant backlash following her latest advert<\/p>\n

17:27, 15 Sep 2026Updated 17:27, 15 Sep 2026<\/p>\n

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Boxing ace Ebanie Bridges has spoken out in support of Sydney Sweeney and questioned the “outrage” from some women’s athletes over the Hollywood star’s nude sports gambling adverts.<\/p>\n

Sydney, 29, set the internet ablaze over the weekend as she stared in Novig’s advert – leaving very little to the imagination. However, it has received backlash from various athletes<\/a> – who claim to have shown Sydney “real women in sports”.<\/p>\n

But former IBF bantamweight world champion Bridges, who is known for posing in racy lingerie for weigh-ins ahead of her thrilling fights, shared a mocked up picture of her supposedly starring in a Novig advert to her 775,000 followers on Instagram<\/a>, along with her opinion on the mounting controversy.<\/p>\n

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The Blonde Bomber said: “My question is\u2026 where was all this outrage when trans women were\/are trying to compete in women sport?<\/p>\n

“Because to me, questions around fairness, safety and the integrity of women’s competition are a far bigger issue than an actress being sexy in an advert to sell a brand.<\/p>\n

“Were people too scared to speak up then? Seems so. And don’t hate on @sydney_sweeney for getting paid to be part of a marketing campaign that everyone knew would sell, get attention and get people talking. You all talked about it\u2026 so clearly it worked.<\/p>\n

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“She isn’t an athlete. She isn’t competing against women. Everyone knows it’s an advert, so I really don’t see her as somehow ‘representing’ women’s sport. Not to mention the ad is promoting gambling not promoting sport.”<\/p>\n

“Sporty. Girly. Sexy. Business-minded. Why choose?” Bridges, 39, added: “Not a Novig ad\u2026 yet”<\/p>\n

Many of Bridges’ followers commented in support of the post, with several hailing her “common sense” take. One poster said: “I honestly don’t understand the problem. She isn’t an athlete. She’s just modelling.”<\/p>\n

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Another said: “Exactly right. They are posting atm because is the current fad.” Bridges replied: “Yeah but too scared to post about things that actually effect sport.”<\/p>\n

One fan said: “Where was the outrage when Ronda Rousey posed nude? Serena Williams? This is the most thinly veiled political attack I’ve seen in a long time\u2026 and all these women attacking other women fell right into it.<\/p>\n

“Also, It\u2019s a gambling ad. You\u2019re selling gambling to MEN. I swear people have stopped using their brains.” Bridges replied: “This comment wins.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARNING, NUDITY Ebanie Bridges has defended Sydney Sweeney after the Hollywood actress received significant backlash following her latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,58520,246395,101,9298,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ebanie-bridges","tag-irish-daily-star","tag-sports","tag-sydney-sweeney","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}