Hilaria Baldwin's former dance partner is weighing in on the ongoing scandal surrounding her heritage.
16.12.2020 - 15:43 / variety.com
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentRaising the glass ceiling in Spain, Laura Fernández Espeso has been promoted to the position of chief executive at The Mediapro Studio, where she will direct the management and strategy of TMS productions and production houses in and outside Spain.Co-head of TV of The Mediapro Studio from its launch in March 2019, Fernandez Espeso was appointed its corporate director in October 2019.
Her new promotion makes her the highest-ranking female TV
.Hilaria Baldwin's former dance partner is weighing in on the ongoing scandal surrounding her heritage.
Alec Baldwin's public temper has one of his wife's critics afraid for her safety.
As if this scandal couldn’t get weirder, it seems that even Hilaria Baldwin and Alec’s wedding had Spanish appropriation baked into its theme. Hilaria—who was born Hillary Thomas-Hayward in Boston, Massachusetts—incorporated her self-proclaimed Spanish “culture” into her June 2012 wedding to the 30 Rock actor with readings in both Spanish and English, a flamenco hand fan, and a veil reminiscent of a Spanish mantilla.
As Hilaria Baldwin is accused of cultural appropriation, some are looking at her 2012 wedding to Alec Baldwin as another example of her adopting Spanish culture as her own. The duo tied the knot in a star-studded ceremony in New York City that, at the time, had her boasting about how they managed to incorporate some of her "culture" into the big day.
Hilaria Baldwin was born Hillary Hayward-Thomas and used to dance competitively under her birth name. If you don’t know, there has been a ton of controversy this week about her heritage after it was discovered she was actually born in Boston, Massachusetts, not Spain.
Hilaria Baldwin is speaking out after getting immense backlash for revealing that she was born in Boston, Mass., and not Spain as she had previously implied. The 36-year-old yoga/wellness expert reacted to a tweet over the weekend, which said, "You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person." The tweet has since been deleted. However, it sparked a firestorm of resurfaced clips and interviews where Hilaria, whose real name is
A big change has been made to Hilaria Baldwin‘s official bio on her agency’s webpage dedicated to her work.
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentFor decades, local fiction dominated free-to-air primetime over much of Europe. Many big U.S.
Hilaria Baldwin came into the spotlight in the last week for all the wrong reasons as people began accusing her of faking her ethnicity.
Ireland Baldwin has defended her stepmother Hilaria Baldwin after the yoga teacher’s Spanish heritage was publicly questioned. Last week, rumours began circulating on social media that Hilaria had been “faking” her Spanish accent, with some suggesting that the 36-year-old, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, had lied and said her birthplace was Spain.
Alec Baldwin has released a nearly 10 minute long video that seems to be a defense of his wife Hilaria Baldwin amid the allegations that she has faked her heritage and her accent. Hilaria was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but many are pointing to interviews where she apparently claimed to be from Spain. There are also numerous videos of her speaking with a Spanish accent.
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John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLegendary Global, the TV production-financing house launched by Chris Albrecht and Anne Thomopoulos, has teamed with Barcelona-based ESPotlight to acquire rights for a small screen adaptation of “Los Forasteros del Tiempo,” a family-targeting, illustrated time travel book series from Spain’s Roberto Santiago.The first season makes over the first title in the saga, “La Aventura de los Balbuena en el Lejano Oeste,” said ESPotlight partner Anxo
Rosalia is more than pleased at being close to finishing her third studio album.The Spanish pop star has revealed she is “closing the cycles of these recordings” in an update on the progress of her follow-up to 2018’s critically-acclaimed El Mal Querer.In an interview with Vogue magazine, she teased: “This is the moment, I think, where everything is flowing, I’m finishing the songs, and it feels different than the beginning of the year.“Now I’m closing the cycle of these recordings, and I’m
Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentTelepool’s Munich-based sales outfit Global Screen has closed deals to major territories for “Plan A,” a true World War II story, starring August Diehl (“A Hidden Life,” “Inglourious Basterds”) and Sylvia Hoeks (“Blade Runner 2049,” “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”).Signature Entertainment has acquired all rights for the U.K., Ireland, New Zealand and Australia, while Twelve Oaks Pictures picked up the film in Spain.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentTrustNordisk has sold U.S. rights to “A Taste of Hunger,” an anticipated romantic drama starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”) and Katrine Greis-Rosenthal (“A Fortunate Man”), to Magnolia Pictures.Directed by Christoffer Boe, “A Taste of Hunger” has also been acquired in a raft of territories, including Germany (Koch Films), Spain (Adso Films), Brazil (Synapse) and Greece (Rosebud).