Oh dios mios!
Hilaria Baldwin found herself having trouble speaking Spanish again after watching a video of a self-proclaimed Spaniard forgetting how to pronounce common English words despite being from Massachusetts.
Inside the clip Get it on Daily MailAlec Baldwin's wife (real name Hilary Hayward-Thomas) was cooking a “traditional” Spanish meal for her holiday guests when she heard the word “onion” and went blank.
Wearing flannel pajamas, the 40-year-old yoga instructor boasted about the authenticity of her recipes in her signature Spanglish accent.
“I learned this when I was a kid. Don't look it up online, you're going to learn something different,” Baldwin said in what appeared to be a heavy accent while in the kitchen with a friend.
She said the secret to cooking tortillas was not cutting the potatoes “too small.”
Continuing to talk about the recipe, Baldwin struggled to remember the word “onion” and told the camera, “It's onion.” [onions in Spanish]”
Luckily, her friend helped her and reminded her of the English word.
This isn't the first time that an actor's wife has become absent-minded when it comes to English.
She came under fire in 2015 for forgetting the word “cucumber” during a six-minute segment. on the “Today” show.
Baldwin listed the ingredients while making “authentic” gazpacho.
“We don't have much material,” she told Telemundo TV host Evi Siscos, who appeared with her that day.
“I have tomatoes, I have them, uhm,” how do you say that in English? Cucumbers! “
Fans were quick to slam Baldwin, accusing her of faking an accent while pointing out that she sounds English in some of her social media videos. Some of her former classmates also mentioned the backlash.
“I went to high school with her, and I think she was really nice, but she was totally a white woman from Cambridge,” one person posted on X (formerly Twitter).
Another said: “I went to high school with her. She was very sweet and serious about ballroom dancing. Her name was indeed Hilary Hayward Thomas and she didn't have the accent she has now.
“She and her brother Jeremy (also kind) grew up in Boston and I think they were white.”
After being criticized for her heritage, Baldwin She defended herself and admitted that her name was Hillary.
“There are some things that need to be clarified,” she said. “I've had some questions about where I'm from, but I was born in Boston… I spent part of my childhood in Boston, part of my childhood in Spain, my family, My brothers, my parents, my nephews, everyone is done.'' I'm in Spain now, I'm here. ”
She also grew up speaking both English and Spanish and claimed to want to raise her seven children bilingual.
Alec's wife attended the Cambridge School of Weston in Weston, Massachusetts; Talked about “motherhood, marriage, miscarriage” In 2020, she said she moved to New York from Spain at the age of 19 to attend New York University. “I came here to go to school, and I never left.”
While she lived in the United States, Baldwin's parents, Dr. Kathryn Hayward and David Thomas, He is said to live on the island of Mallorca. After leaving the US in 2011.
