Celebs Who Can't Stand Jenny McCarthy

Posted by Sebrina Pilcher on Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Jenny McCarthy didn't exactly cover herself in glory when she grabbed Christina Applegate for a chat on the red carpet while covering the 2019 Emmy Awards for Fox. Firstly, there was the question which suggested that the interviewer, or more likely her producers, hadn't done the research on the "Dead to Me" star (via HuffPost).

McCarthy initially stepped in it when she asked Applegate, "I know you were nominated for 'Friends' being a guest star role, tonight you're nominated for your show, first time, right? Lead Actress?" Of course, she'd already received two nods in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress In a Comedy Series for another sitcom, "Samantha Who," as she was keen to point out during the painfully awkward chat, adding, "But that's okay. We don't have to talk about that." To add insult to injury, Applegate also won Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on "Friends." On top of all that, McCarthy implied she was significantly younger than Applegate, when in reality, there's only a year between the two. Unsurprisingly, this bonkers interaction got a lot of attention on Twitter. 

Now, we are not body language experts or anything, but based on everything Applegate said and did, we'd bet a buck or two that she was not happy with the TV host. For starters, when McCarthy suggested this was her first Lead Actress nod, the "Anchorman" actor, as The Cut put it, "responds by looking like she wants to die."

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