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\u201cI had a neck lift last week because I\u2019m tired of looking like a melting candle. So I had to skip the Academy Awards. No drama. Everything is fine,\u201d the actress and comedian posted Sunday night on Instagram. She said she spoke out in response to queries flowing in to her direct messages. The post included a close up photo of McClendon-Covey\u2019s face with what appeared to be medical tape wrapped around her head and under her chin.<\/p>\n
The \u201cBridesmaids<\/a>\u201d segment brought together stars of the 2011 Paul Feig<\/a> comedy \u2014 including Maya Rudolph<\/a>, Melissa McCarthy<\/a>, Kristin Wiig, Rose Byrne<\/a> and Ellie Kemper<\/a> \u2014 for a feel-good segment during the Oscar telecast.<\/p>\n McClendon-Covey, who stars in the NBC<\/a> comedy \u201cSt. Denis Medical<\/a>\u201d and is known for…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actress Wendi McClendon-Covey is being characteristically blunt about why she did not take part in Sunday\u2019s \u201cBridesmaids\u201d reunion on the live Academy Awards telecast. \u201cI had a neck lift last week because I\u2019m tired of looking like a melting candle. So I had to skip the Academy Awards. No drama. Everything is fine,\u201d the actress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2330712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2330711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018Bridesmaids-Star-Wendi-McClendon-Covey-Missed-Oscars-Reunion-Due-to-\u2018Neck.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330713,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330711\/revisions\/2330713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}