‘Short, dumpy girl’: Foxtel CEO insults Emilia Clarke at House of the Dragon premiere
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- cammyboo AO (@cameronwilson) August 17, 2022
Emilia has been described by an Australian television executive in a very disparaging manner at the House of the Dragon premiere.
Foxtel CEO Patrick Delany made the comments during a speech before the screening of the first episode at the Sydney premiere retold how he was late to start watching Game of Thrones.
“I was like, ‘What’s this show with the short, dumpy girl walking into the fire?'” he said.
According to two attendees, the response to the comment was cold.
“It felt like he was expecting us to laugh along but people in the room were obviously shocked by it,” one said. “There was a bit of a gasp,” another said.
A Foxtel Group spokesperson told Crikey that Delany’s comments were meant to be self-deprecating and light-hearted: “The aim was to convey that for him, Games of Thrones was something very different for television in 2011 and that Emilia Clarke went from relatively unknown to one of the most recognised and most-loved actors in television and film,” they said.
“On behalf of Mr Delany, the Foxtel Group apologies if his remarks were misunderstood and caused any offence.”
who the fuck does he think he is saying shit like this?? no wonder she had body image issues cause if this fucker is so comfortable saying this in public god knows what she was being told behind the scenes by these nasty, disgusting pigs.
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