Kathy Hilton Goes Viral for Reapplying Lip Gloss on Stage While Mariska Hargitay Accepts 2022 People’s Choice Award

08.12.2022 - 01:03 / usmagazine.com

Not the right moment? Kathy Hilton‘s attempt to touch up her makeup at the 2022 People’s Choice Awards received major backlash by viewers who questioned her timing.

During the awards show, which took place on Tuesday, December 6, Hilton, 63, presented the Best Drama TV Star award alongside her Real Housewives of Beverly Hills costars Kyle Richards, Lisa Rinna, Erika Jayne, Dorit Kemsley, Crystal Minkoff and Sutton Stracke. Garcelle Beauvais, who was nominated with the rest of the group for Best Reality Show, did not attend due to work conflicts.

After announcing Mariska Hargitay as the winner for her role in Law & Order: SVU, Hilton stepped back to let the actress, 58, deliver her acceptance speech.

“I love this award so much because of the two words in it,” Hargitay told the crowd. “The first word is people. And that’s people from all origins and all ethnicities and all creeds, and all genders and all identity that make this whole glorious mix of all of us.”

The NBC star added: “The second word, and that’s even more important, is choice. So I just want to celebrate our ability in all of us the willingness in all of us to choose kindness, and compassion and courage and to choose to listen and to learn and to build a bridge between our differences and our divides.”

Fans, however, were quick to point out that Hilton was reapplying her lip gloss in the background. Cameras caught the socialite briefly taking out her makeup while waiting for Hargitay to finish her speech.

Some viewers were not thrilled by Hilton’s decision, with one fan tweeting, “She’s so rude wtf, as if y’all are talking about how funny this is, the disrespect.” Meanwhile other social media users defended the reality star for her “one of a kind” behavior.

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