Whose fault is it that Hilaria Baldwin got booted off Dancing With The Stars? Yours! Mine! Women generally! But certainly not Hilaria Baldwin’s. Since getting eliminated on week four of DWTS, Baldwin has made it clear to anyone who will listen that she believes she and partner Gleb Savchenko were “bullied” off the show by “mean girls” hellbent on sabotaging her return to the stage. In that case, making it all the way to week four is actually an accomplishment. Como se dice…turning lemons into lemonade?
Baldwin has been publicly miffed since she was eliminated on Oct. 7, taking to TikTok, Instagram stories, podcasts, and the traditional press to make sure her story is heard. “There’s a big problem online right now. It’s a big problem,” she told season 33 winner Joey Graziadei on the show’s official podcast immediately after her elimination. “We don’t see each other. We make enemies out of each other. And I’m talking about my fellow women. Women’s inhumanity to women. We need to stop. We will never get anywhere.” Sing it, sister!
She then took to Instagram for World Mental Health Day to address the scourge of wealthy celebrities being unjustly eliminated from their dance-based competition reality shows, saying, “I would be remiss if I didn’t address the elephant in the room.” (What room????) “Which is that there was some bullying going on aimed at me over the past few weeks.”
So what exactly is the “very coordinated and strategic” bullying Baldwin is referring to? I’m glad you asked: a mixture of mean comments and the hostile act of not voting for her.
She laid out this theory in an interview with Us Weekly on Sunday, where she said “mean girls” on TikTok were “having campaigns where they wouldn’t just vote for their favorite—because you can vote 10 times for a couple—they were voting for all the other couples except us, so they were boosting everybody else and trying to drown out my fan base.”
For the uninitiated, DWTS scoring takes both the judges’ scores and an audience vote into account. Baldwin scored relatively well with the judges over her four weeks (that’s the yoga instructor/dancer background for ya), with a high score of 23/30 during week three’s “TikTok Night,” just one episode before she was eliminated. This could suggest that there is some merit to the idea that it was the audience vote, not judges’ scores, that did her in. Clearly, these mean girls don’t want to see a self-identified Latina win!!
As if being unfairly eliminated from a dance competition show wasn’t enough, yesterday Alec Baldwin crashed her Range Rover into a “big fat tree” to avoid a garbage truck. (He’s fine.)
Ah yes, trees. The biggest bullies of all…
Billie Eilish is thanking a fan who defended her from a concertgoer who grabbed her the only way she knows how: by sending merch. [Billboard]
YouTubers Dan and Phil revealed they’ve been dating the whole time. Sometimes reality is better than (fan) fiction! [YouTube]
Brittany Cartwright and Brandon Hanson have called it quits after two months. (Still better than being with Jax.) [Page Six]
Ben Stiller says cutting his daughter out of his movie was the “worst decision” of his life. Pretty easy life! [EW]
Will we ever stop asking Jennifer Aniston why she didn’t have kids? [People]
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