Jan. 15 2024, Printed 9:59 a.m. ET
Actress/singer Ariana DeBose was not impressed by the joke made about her in the course of the Critics Alternative Awards broadcast, RadarOnline.com has discovered.
On Sunday, DeBose and numerous different celebrities had been current for the award present. The Final of Us star Bella Ramsey and Within the Heights actor Anthony Ramos took the stage to current
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Ramsey and Ramos introduced the award for Finest Track. As they introduced, the duo learn the banter on the teleprompter that included pre-written jokes in regards to the nominees.
The 2 learn off the nominees together with Billie Eilish, Lenny Kravitz, and Dua Lipa — and famous that they had been “among the most well-known voices within the music trade.”
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Ramey and Ramos then learn the record of the remaining nominees which included DeBose, Jack Black, and Ryan Gosling, The duo known as the three nominees “actors who additionally suppose that they’re singers.”
DeBose, who’s a singer, seems confused in the course of the telecast.
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Following the present, DeBose took to social media to reply. She wrote, “No I did not discover it humorous. Lol.”
Many DeBose followers took to social media to criticize the joke.
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One wtote, “Bella… Ariana DeBose is an Academy Award successful, Tony nominated Actress and you’ve got the audacity to say she’s an actress “who thinks they’ll sing”?! Oh that’s not the way you current a class or discuss folks dwell on tv.”
One other stated, “that is so unfunny…like Ariana Debose is without doubt one of the few triple threats within the trade. Bella you might have turned this joke down.”
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“Poor Bella Ramsey having to ship that HORRIBLY JUDGED “joke” about Ariana DeBose however BLESS the director for truly reducing to her intensely confused response and holding on to it for thus lengthy,” stated one other viewer.
Whereas one other identified, “Whoever wrote that joke about Ariana DeBose set Bella Ramsey up for failure. She’ll get blamed for that idiotic dialogue that she had nothing to do with.”
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One other viewer was confused why Ramos did not step in and proper the joke.
“The wild factor about that joke is that Anthony Ramos, the man standing subsequent to Bella, starred in a Broadway musical WITH ARIANA DEBOSE. Certainly he might have stated “she’s a Tony nominated Broadway veteran, she’s undoubtedly a singer,” he wrote.
Ramsey has but to touch upon the backlash over the joke written for her.