{"id":475341,"date":"2026-02-18T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/475341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:43:10","slug":"hilaria-baldwin-finally-seems-able-to-laugh-over-her-fake-accent-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/475341\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilaria Baldwin finally seems able to laugh over her fake accent controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is, how you say. . . Hilaria-ous!<\/p>\n<p>A spy tells us that Hilaria Baldwin \u2014 who once blamed a \u201ccoordinated mob\u201d for questioning her ever-evolving accent \u2014 showed she can laugh at the controversy during a Valentine\u2019s-themed lunch for Gurus Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>A source tells Page Six Hilaria Baldwin may finally be finding some humor in her Spanish accent controversy. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>A spy tells us that when the mag\u2019s founder, stylist Derek Warburton, stood up to thank guests for coming, he couldn\u2019t resist a playful jab at the former \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d contestant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHilaria said \u2018thank you\u2019 in her signature faux Spanish accent and Derek joked back, \u2018I love you whatever accent they think you use,\u2019 which had about 50 people breaking out in laughter,\u201d says the spy.<\/p>\n<p>We hear designer Nicole Miller, Sutton Stracke from \u201cThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,\u201d publicist Anna Rothschild, and former \u201cAmerica\u2019s Next Top Model\u201d judge\u00a0Nol\u00e9 Marin attended the event at Maison Close.<\/p>\n<p>A source tells Page Six that Derek Warburton playfully called out Baldwin\u2019s accent in front of guests like Nicole Miller. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin has blamed on \u201ccode-switching,\u201d as well as ADHD and dyslexia for her changing accent. Janet Mayer\/INSTARimages.com<\/p>\n<p>In 2020 social media began noticing some inconsistencies in Alec Baldwins wife\u2019s personal story and her accent.<\/p>\n<p>Videos circulated online of her speaking with a thick affect, like during a \u201cToday Show\u201d cooking segment where she appeared to forget how to say the word \u201ccucumber.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you say in English?\u201d the mom, who grew up as\u00a0Hillary Hayward-Thomas in Boston, asked the host.<\/p>\n<p>She once famously forgot how to say \u201ccucumber\u201d on the \u201cToday Show.\u201d  Instagram \/ @hilariabaldwin<\/p>\n<p>In her book, \u201cManual Not Included,\u201d Baldwin blamed the accent mix-up on \u201ccode-switching,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/05\/06\/celebrity-news\/hilaria-baldwin-insists-accent-switch-ups-are-result-of-adhd-and-dyslexia-my-brain-just-works-differently\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">well as ADHD and dyslexia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd these [diagnoses] greatly impact my speech, my reading, my listening, my focus, my memory and my self-confidence,\u201d she wrote in her book.<\/p>\n<p>She called the social media users who called out the tics\u00a0\u201ca coordinated mob.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent some of my childhood in Boston, some of my childhood in Spain,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/12\/27\/hilaria-baldwin-defends-fluctuating-accent-admits-name-is-hillary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she explained in<\/a> 2020 following the uproar.  \u201cMy family, my brother, my parents, my nephew, everybody is over there in Spain now [while] I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, as Page Six reported, Hilaria\u2019s parents\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/12\/28\/who-are-hilaria-baldwins-parents\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">didn\u2019t move to Mallorca until 2011<\/a>, when she was already 27 years old.<\/p>\n<p>She talked about the issue in her book and on her reality show with Alec Baldwin and their seven children.<\/p>\n<p id=\"gmail-mntl-sc-block_7-0\">\u201cI love English, I also love Spanish, and when I mix the two it doesn\u2019t make me inauthentic, and when I mix the two, that makes me normal,\u201d she said in a confessional scene <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/02\/20\/celebrity-news\/hilaria-baldwin-hits-back-at-fake-accent-controversy-insists-shes-not-inauthentic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on her TLC reality show<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cThe Baldwins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"gmail-mntl-sc-block_7-0\">\u201cI\u2019d be lying if I said [the controversy] didn\u2019t make me sad and it didn\u2019t hurt and it didn\u2019t put me in dark places,\u201d the\u00a0mom of seven, 41, added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is, how you say. . . 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