{"id":2330819,"date":"2026-03-16T07:21:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2330819"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:21:41","slug":"where-is-wendi-mclendon-covey-at-2026-oscars-why-she-skipped-bridesmaids-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/where-is-wendi-mclendon-covey-at-2026-oscars-why-she-skipped-bridesmaids-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is Wendi McLendon-Covey at 2026 Oscars? Why She Skipped \u2018Bridesmaids\u2019 Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Oscars will include a sure-to-be epic reunion of the cast of Bridesmaids<\/a> in honor of the film\u2019s 15th anniversary. Ahead of the buzzed-about moment, the film\u2019s stars Melissa McCarthy<\/a>, Maya Rudolph<\/a>, Kristen Wiig<\/a>, Rose Byrne<\/a>, and Ellie Kemper<\/a> hit the red carpet. Noticeably missing, though, was Wendi McLendon-Covey<\/a>, who played Rita in the beloved 2011 movie. Her reason for not showing up was due to a recent surgery. \u201cIn response to some of the dms I\u2019m getting: I 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,…<\/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":"

The Oscars will include a sure-to-be epic reunion of the cast of Bridesmaids in honor of the film\u2019s 15th anniversary. Ahead of the buzzed-about moment, the film\u2019s stars Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, and Ellie Kemper hit the red carpet. Noticeably missing, though, was Wendi McLendon-Covey, who played Rita in the beloved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2330820,"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":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2330819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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\/Where-Is-Wendi-McLendon-Covey-at-2026-Oscars-Why-She-Skipped.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330819","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=2330819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330821,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330819\/revisions\/2330821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}