Jamie Lee Curtis calls out Bella Ramsey’s “unfunny” Critics Choice joke about Ariana DeBose
16.01.2024 - 10:11
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Jamie Lee Curtis has called out Bella Ramsey for her “unfunny” joke about Ariana DeBose at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards.Yesterday (January 15), the Oscar award-winner took to Instagram to express her displeasure at a joke the Last Of Us star told about Ariana DeBose during the award ceremony. Ramsey had joked by categorising DeBose – alongside Ryan Gosling and Jack Black – as an actor “who also [thinks] they are [a singer]”.
Curtis responded by posting a video which consisted of a snippet of Ramsey’s presentation, before cutting to a compilation of DeBose’s musical theatre work, which involved a lot of singing roles.A post shared by Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis)Tagging DeBose in the post’s caption, Curtis wrote: “Are you fucking kidding me! Ariana DeBose is a queen!” Curtis also hashtagged “#backthefuckoff” and “#shutthefuckup” at the end of the caption.However, Curtis’ followers were quick to jump to Ramsey’s aid, reminding Curtis that Ramsey was simply reading the joke, likely written by someone else, off a teleprompter, and that the young actor had not written the joke themselves.“Ok but please don’t direct the complaints to Bella Ramsey, who was just reading from the teleprompter. The jokes, as Chelsea Handler said, were written by the writers,” one comment reads.
Another wrote: “Please make sure you make it VERY clear you are referring to the writer’s and NOT Bella Ramsey. This was NOT their fault.”Ariana DeBose was present during the ceremony for her Best Song nomination for the song ‘This Wish’ from Disney’s 2023 film Wish.
After Ramsey told the joke, the camera cut to DeBose, a Broadway veteran and Tony Award nominee, who did not look amused. According to Variety, she also took to Instagram after the
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