Hilaria Baldwin, thanks for saving 2021! Hilaria - sorry, Hilary - gave us all a laugh in the final week of the worst year ever.
If you re thinking, Hilaria, who? get set for the greatest celebrity charade of all time, courtesy of the wife of actor Alec Baldwin. It s a mad masquerade - and she s still at it, even after getting caught out. Ee-LAR-eeh-ah from Mallorca is really Hilary Hayward-Thomas from Boston, putting on a fake Spanish accent.
She s pretended to be a Spaniard for a decade - to herself, it seems, as much as everyone else - when she s the daughter of enormously wealthy old Bostonians whose lineage predates the American revolution. Yes, really.
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As Hilaria Baldwin is accused of cultural appropriation, some are looking at her 2012 wedding to Alec Baldwin as another example of her adopting Spanish culture as her own.
The duo tied the knot in a star-studded ceremony in New York City that, at the time, had her boasting about how they managed to incorporate some of her culture into the big day. However, more than eight years after the wedding, the influencer is being criticized after admitting that she is not originally from Spain as she previously implied on several occasions.
A complete timeline of Hilaria Baldwin s contradictory and misleading public life, and how it all blew up
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Hilaria Baldwin was born Hillary Thomas to white American parents in Boston. But since her 2012 marriage to Alec Baldwin, her social-media posts and interviews led people to believe that she was from Spain and that Spanish was her native language.
Insider compiled a comprehensive timeline of Baldwin s public posts, interview clips, and other statements about where she was born and grew up.
Baldwin did not respond to Insider s request for comment.
Hilaria Baldwin was boosted further into the spotlight last week when a Twitter thread claimed she had spent the better part of a decade leading people to believe she was from Spain.
Dasha Zhukova is expecting her first child with new husband billionaire shipping heir Stavros Niarchos.
The Moscow-born gallery owner, 39, is the ex-wife of billionaire Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich, with whom she shares two children, a son, Aaron Alexander, born in 2009 and daughter, Leah Lou, born in 2013.
According to Page Six, she and husband Stavros, 35, are thrilled about the pregnancy, which comes less than a year after the couple tied the knot in a star-studded £5million wedding in glitzy ski resort St Moritz in January.
Dasha, an heiress and businesswoman, and Stavros, who is named after his late billionaire shipping tycoon grandfather, had been friends for more than a decade but became a couple after her split in 2017 with Abramovich.